Zhu Wencong returned to the grand hotel in New York State, where he would be living for the upcoming period.
In this era, there were no hotels; the earliest word for hotel came from French, referring to a country villa owned by French nobility for entertaining distinguished guests.
Western hotels can be divided into four developmental periods: the inn period, the luxury hotel period, the commercial hotel period, and the modern hotel period.
The era of luxury hotels began in the 19th century, and America's first luxury hotel, Tremont House, was established in Boston in 1829.
The standard for a high-end hotel was defined by the number of bathrooms, as back then, those wishing to bathe had to go to public bathhouses, and to relieve themselves, to public lavatories.
Tremont House solved this problem, placing their communal baths on the basement level and the public toilets on the first floor, with a total of eight stalls—no need to leave the hotel.
