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Texas Hotels and Tourist Courts
Texas had 1,492 hotels with 62,972 guest
rooms and collected $78,439,000 for services,
according to the federal census of 1949, which
covered operations during the year 1948. At
the same time there were 2,016 tourist courts
with 30,708 guest rooms which received
$20,995,000 for services during the year. These
figures total 3,518 establishments with a total
guest-room capacity of 93,500 and receipts for
the year amounting to $99,434,000.
While Texas does not have the per-capita
hotel and tourist-court business of the big
centers of business, political and cultural
activity in the North, it nevertheless has an
exceptional business for a state of its density
of population and geographic location.
Mobile Texans.
This comes from several causes. Texans are
a mobile people. They do much traveling in
their own state on business and pleasure, The
wide spaces of Texas and the distances be-
tween its large cities have encouraged travel
among a people who have been travel-minded
since the days of the trek of their forefathers
to the western frontier.
The location of Texas geographically has
also encouraged interstate and international
travel across its surface. The main southern
rail, highway and air routes from Atlantic to
Pacific traverse Texas.
There has long been a heavy traffic acrossTexas from north to south because the Texas
Gulf ports serve not only Texas but a large
area beyond. In recent years, the main
artery of travel and commerce by rail, high-
way and air between the United States and
Mexico has been developed across Texas.
Hotel Investment.
All of this has encouraged the investment
of money in hotels. The wide development of
the oil fields has also been a factor, (1) by
furnishing patronage for the hotels and
(2) by furnishing in many instances the local
capital for the enterprise. Noticeable through-
out Texas is the large number of excellent
hotels in small cities.
This is notably true along the main thor-
oughfares that cross the tate and in the
areas that have had, for "ome years, active
oil-field operations. 'ing such east-west
highways as U.S. 90. U.S. 80, U.S. 67 and
U.S. 287 the traveler is seldom more than
thirty miles from modern hotel or tourist-
camp conveniences. The same is true of th.e
principal north-south routes.
A rapid development of recent years has
been the expansion of the tourist-court busi-
ness, largely catering to the traveler by mo-
tor vehicle. A warm climate and year-round
travel of tourists encouraged the development
of the tourist court earlier in the South and
West than in the North.TEXAS HOTELS AND TOURIST COURTS, BY COUNTIES.
Table below shows hotels and tourist courts in Texas (number of establishments, rental
units and receipts) in the year 1948, according to the federal census of services taken during
1949 and published early in 1951.Hotels
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WE xzxETourist Courts.
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1 '~ c1B30,708 20,995
86 49
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76 61
283 169
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84 32
42 18
(*) (*)
56 22
307 146
1.883 1,531
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206 231
45 25
60 35
97 . 71
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94 66
151 57
(*) (*)
83 32
42 28
50 32
960 509
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70 72
88 43
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34 11
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USI 4Colorado 9
Comal . 3
Comanche . 4
' Concho 1
Cooke . . 6
Coryell . . 2
Cottle . . 2
Crane 1
Crockett . 2
Crosby . 3
Culberson 2
Dallam . 5
Dallas ... 103
Dawson 4
Deaf Smith 5
Delta ... 1
Denton .. 2
De Witt .. 6
Dickens 3
tDimmit 4
Donley 2
Duval.
Eastland . 11
tEctor . . 12
Edvards .. 1
Ellis . .. 4
tEl Paso 46
Erath . . 3
Falls .. . 2
Fannn . 3
Fayette . . 3
Fisher . .. 2
Floyd 2
Foard .. 2
Fort Bend . 3
Franklin .
Freestone .. 2
Frio .... 2
Gaines .. 9
Galveston . 48
Garza .... 5
Gillespie . 1
Glasscock155
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77
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45
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156
6,269
97
67
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162
75
42
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341
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93
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12,102
48
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420
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3,354
40
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17
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85
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120
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State, total.
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Andrews ...
Angelina .
Aransas
Archer ..
Armstrong
Atascosa
Austin ..
Bailey ..
Bandera
Bastrop
Baylor ..
Bee ...
Bell..
Bexar ...
Blanco .
Borden .. .
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Brazoria
Brazos ..
Brewster .
Briscoe .
Brooks ...
Brown ...
Burleson .
Burnet :..
Caldwell
tCalhoun .
Callahan
Cameron .
Camp
Carson
Cass ....
Castro . ..
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Cherokee
Childress .
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1,223
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