Hotel industry

By jbitterolf

  • First Swimming pool

    Kemmons Wilson opened the first Holiday Inn, with a pledge that every property will have a pool.

  • SABRE

    SABRE was released

  • First internet

    The first recorded use of the term Internet in December by the Network Working Group

  • Color Tvs

    Color TV's were placed into guest rooms.
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    eMail and Dialup internet

    CompuServe is the first to bring electronic mail and the service to support it to personal computers. America Online (AOL) and Prodigy emerge as dial-in networks.

  • Room and tax

    First electronic posting device created by MICROS that automatically postsroom and tax

  • First POS

    Micros introduces first PC Based POS System.

  • Remote Check out

    The first remote check in was added

  • Expedia

    Microsoft Corporation launches Expedia.