Author and historian Mahendra K. Doshi launched Surat to San Francisco: How the Patels from Gujarat Established the Hotel Business in California, which features personal stories on the incredible entrepreneurship journey of the Indian-American hoteliers. The book contains the untold history of the Patel hospitality narrative, from its genesis to its gradual consolidation and expansion throughout the U.S., and chronicles its founders and those Patels who came in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, the Gujarati hoteliers maintain a dominant presence in the U.S. hospitality landscape. The book traces the fascinating and inspiring history of how the Patels started the hotel business in California, and spread it to almost stratospheric heights.
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