Read the supporting article and provide detailed answers to the case questions below.
The Canadian Pacific Hotel company started in 1886 with the completion of the Mount Stephen House in Kicking Horse Valley, Canada, William Cornelius Van Home decided to build a series of «dining stations* along the first Canadian transcontinental railroad to accommodate travelers. During the next year, two more stations were built — Glaciel House and Fraser Canyon House — and by 1908, Van Home had built four more stations.
The look of Van Home's hotels was remarkable, and traveler) enjoyed seeing them. He designed hotels to look like European castle) and Canadian author R.G. MacBeth called the hotels «palatial and romantic*. Expansion of Canadian Pacific Hotels continued through the twentieth century, with hotels located in British Columbia, the Rocky Mountains, Urban Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada. Canadian Pacific Hotels currently has a total of twenty-six hotels, with 11,116 rooms and 10,000 employees throughout Canada.
In 1987, Canadian Pacific began to restore all of the hotels to their original grandeur. Each hotel was renovated and refurbished, and rooms, restaurants, and health clubs were added to many of the hotels.
City-Centre hotels are now equipped with modernized busyness) amenities to meet a business traveler's needs. The rooms feature a desk, two phones, a desk drawer organizer with supplies, a fax service, and other services including express check-out. Many hotels contain work centers for business travelers who prefer a place to work other than their room. [1,146]
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Vocabulary notes
completion зд. завершение, окончание строительства transcontinental railroad транспортная ж/д магистраль
to accommodate предоставлять жилье, помещение для проживания
castle замок, дворец, большой дом (напоминающий замок) palatial зд. похожий на (настоящий) дворец; богатый, великолепный; богатство, роскошь grandeur грандиозность; великолепие; богатство, роскошь to renovate обновлять здание путем ремонта to refurbish (smth.) подновлять, освежать, наводить блеск (на что-либо) health club оздоровительный клуб
Case questions:
1. When did the Canadian Pacific Hotel company start?
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2. What did it start with?
3. Where did William Cornelius Van Home decide to build a series of «dining stations»? What for?
4. Why did R.G. MacBeth call the hotels «palatial and romantic»?
5. When did Canadian Pacific begin to restore all of the hotels to their original grandeur?
6. What are typical City-Centre hotels normally equipped with?
7. Whom are work centers designed for?
Role-play:
Pretend you are a City-Centre hotel owner in Nizhny Novgorod, You are planning to renovate and refurbish the hotel to better meet business travelers' needs. What exactly will you be doing?
While making your decision consider the following possible steps:
• to restore the hotel to its original grandeur;
• to add two more restaurants and a health club;
• to equip rooms with modernized business amenities;
• to add a work center for business travelers.
2. Identify key points in the article and extract information from it to pass on to your partner.
3. Let your partner see whether key points identified by you are the same as those covered in the article. Let him agree or disagree with you.
UNIT 4
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