{"id":4286,"date":"2004-06-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/06\/14\/2004-06-14-east-indians-from-gujarat-are-well-established-in-the-hotel-industry\/"},"modified":"2004-06-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T12:00:00","slug":"2004-06-14-east-indians-from-gujarat-are-well-established-in-the-hotel-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/06\/14\/2004-06-14-east-indians-from-gujarat-are-well-established-in-the-hotel-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"East Indians from Gujarat are Well-Established in the Hotel Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE820040430014206&#038;Page=8&#038;Title=NRIs&#038;Topic=0&#038;\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>DALLAS, TEXAS, April 30, 2004: In the 1960&#8217;s and 1970&#8217;s, an individual from outside the U.S.A could immigrate to America if they were able to invest $10,000 to run a business. It was during this time that the Gujarati community from India established itself in the hotel industry. From humble beginnings, as the hotels purchased initially were often in run-down areas, today, according to the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) in Atlanta, &#8220;They own about half of the US economy lodging facilities and almost 37 percent of all hotel properties here. The ethnic group now owns about 20,000 hotels &#8212; about 1 million rooms &#8212; in 50 states.&#8221; Chekitan Dev, professor of marketing at Cornell&#8217;s School of Hotel Administration adds, &#8220;The children of the first generation of hotel owners have taken the path followed by many other second-generation immigrants. We are turning out a lot of second-generation hotel owners. They are using their education to take their business to the next level.&#8221; The article also tells about the success story of H.P. Rama who started with a small investment and purchased a 37-room hotel in Pomona, California. He is now the head of JHM Hotels, which runs 32 properties, with 5,000 rooms, in nine states. Rama says, &#8220;I have no doubt that the second generation will dominate the lodging industry in this country in all segments of the market.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceDALLAS, TEXAS, April 30, 2004: In the 1960&#8217;s and 1970&#8217;s, an individual from outside the U.S.A could immigrate to America,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}