Gaylord Opryland Resort & amp; The Convention Center , formerly known as the Opryland Hotel , is a hotel and convention center located in Nashville, Tennessee. Owned by Gaylord Hotels, a division of Ryman Hospitality Properties (formerly known as Gaylord Entertainment Company), and operated by Marriott International. With 2881 rooms, this is one of the 30 largest hotels in the world.
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Histori
The original Opryland Hotel opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1977, on land adjacent to the former Opryland USA theme park. The hotel was originally built to support the Grand Ole Opry, a Nashville state music institution. The hotel had 580 guest rooms and a ballroom. Magnolia Lobby is designed to resemble a large house in the South with impressive staircases and Tiffany lamps.
In 1983-1984 the hotel expanded, adding more than 400 guest rooms and combining facilities to meet the demands of corporate meetings and convention markets. The park conservatory resembling a Victorian garden is added. The atrium maintains a constant temperature of 71 degrees and accommodates more than 10,000 plants.
In 1988, 2 hectares and 797 guest rooms were added to the hotel. The Cascades Atrium is built, including a 3.5-storey waterfall and over 8,000 tropical plants. The Cascades Lobby is expanded to 24 check-in stations that can check 580 guests per hour when needed.
The expansion of 4.5 acres completed in 1996 doubled the size of the resort, adding about 1,000 guest rooms, 10 meeting rooms, a 289,000 square foot exhibition hall and a ballroom of 57,000 square feet. The trademark feature of this addition is the Cajun-themed Atrium Delta, which combines a river within a quarter mile. Flatboats were introduced to carry guests along the river, and through water features that included choreographed jets to music. When the extension was baptized, water samples from more than 1,700 rivers around the world (including every river registered in the United States) were poured into the Delta River. The Old Hickory Steak House, built to resemble an antique-brewed house, was also added.
On October 26, 2001, Opryland Hotel Nashville was renamed Gaylord Opryland Resort & amp; Convention Center (or Gaylord Opryland , for short), takes its name from its parent company. Company officials at the time declared that "Opryland" branding was strong for Nashville (and Texas, initially), but was incompatible with projects elsewhere in the United States. According to a press release in 2003, Gaylord Opryland plans to build an amphitheater with a capacity of 5,000 seats at the site in the near future, but the plan appears to have been abandoned for the expansion of the convention center.
On May 2, 2010, the flood destroyed Nashville and caused great damage to the Opryland Hotel. Guests were evacuated as flood waters rose as high as 10 feet in some parts of the hotel. The hotel is undergoing renovations and reopened November 15, 2010. Repairs and renovations to renowned hotels include the addition of five restaurants and restoration of atrium rooms and guest rooms.
On January 19, 2012, Gaylord Entertainment announced a new partnership with Dolly Parton's The Dollywood Company to build new water and seasonal snow gardens in a company-owned area on Briley Parkway from Gaylord Opryland. $ 50 Million Stage 1 of the entire project is expected to open in Spring 2014. On September 28, 2012, Dolly decided to reclaim her partnership at the new Nashville theme park.
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Wi-fi Jaming Controversy
On October 3, 2014, the US Federal Communications Commission imposed a $ 600,000 fine on Marriott for intentional interference with a private Wi-fi hotspot connection that connects its client's portable computer to a client's mobile phone in the hotel convention room.
This scheme misuses the "detention" feature of a Wi-Fi monitoring system designed for legitimate purposes to remove unwanted "unwanted access points" from the company's own local area network. Marriott is abusing the system to send a fake de-authentication package to a client's wireless access point, which violates the law as it is not part of the Marriott network but is owned by each mobile subscriber. The fake package, which separates consumer devices from their own Wi-Fi hotspot access point, is sent intentionally as a tool to force convention visitors to purchase wireless Internet access from hotels with rates ranging from $ 250-1000 per access point.
According to FCC's Chief of the Bureau of Action Fra. Travis LeBlanc, "It is unacceptable for any hotel to deliberately disable private hotspots while also charging high fees for consumers and small businesses to use the hotel's own Wi-Fi network.This practice puts consumers in a position that can not is maintained either paying twice for the same service or Internet access that stops altogether. "Despite the substantial fines, Marriott continues to deny that its actions are illegal, saying it is using FCC-approved equipment to protect its customers from hackers.
Related Ryman Hospitality owned property in Nashville
- Grand Ole Opry
- General Jackson Showboat
- Ryman Auditorium
- Wildhorse Saloon
- 650 WSM
- The amusement park of Opryland USA (dead)
References
External links
- Gaylord Opryland Resort & amp; Convention Center
- the Gaylord Entertainment company website
- Gaylordhotels.com
- US. Prohibition of federal jamming
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