HOTEL CHIEFS MEET

Evening Star, Issue 21633, 31 January 1934, Page 12

HOTEL CHIEFS MEET

At Claridge's Hotel, in London, tlie oilier day casual visitors watched with interest a procession of immaculate figures in morning dress passing through the entrance had with the dignity of diplomats and entering a room on the first floor. Those who were curious enough to inquire were told that this was a conference of the International Hotel Alliance. In point of fact, here were thirty of the world’s leading hotel chiefs, heads of in industry with £1,000,000,000 at stake, who had met to discuss “ mutual problems of the industry.” These hosts of kings and millionaires form a luxury league of nations, and in the bust-ness-like room where they sal at a horseshoe table they discussed matters that will have an echo in Geneva. After their discussions they sat down to a banquet at which more than forty rare wines and liqueurs were served, including 115-year-old brandy from the Tuilcries,