3 APRIL 1926, Page 11

Twenty years ago the average American hotel- in the Middle-West

was no better than its "opposite number" in this country. It was the coming of the motor-car in the United States which revolutionized the American hotel industry. Let us hope it will have the same effect here ; the bedside telephone, running water in every bedroom, a bathroom adjoining each room, and central heating which can be regulated by the guest should be provided in all up-to-date hotels. The British countryside can hold its own with any in the world. It seems a pity that we do not pay the same attention as foreign countries to the industry of " Tourism."