title: Introduction to Hospitality (6th Edition)
author:  John R. Walker 
description: "Dr. John R. Walker" is professor and director of the Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management Program at the Alliant International University in San Diego, California. John's fifteen years of industry experience includes management training at the Savoy Hotel London. This was followed by terms as food and beverage manager, assistant rooms division manager, catering manager, and general manager with Grand Metropolitan Hotels, Selsdon Park Hotel, Rank Hotels, Inter-Continental Hotels, and the Coral Reef Resort, Barbados, West Indies.
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  efore even beginning, I will read, I will
  reread with you by way of an epigraph, a
  long and celebrated passage from Kant.
  To begin with, I will read it almost without
  commentary. But in each of its words, it will
  preside over the whole of this lecture and all
  questions of hospitality, the historical questions –
  those questions at once timeless, archaic,
  modern, current, and future [à venir] that the
  single word “hospitality” magnetizes – the histor-
  ical, ethical, juridical, political, and economic
  questions of hospitality.
  As you have no doubt already guessed, it
  is a question in Perpetual Peace
  of the
  famous “Third Definitive Article of a Perpetual
  Peace [Dritter Definitivartikel zum ewigen
  Frieden],”2
  the title of which is: “Das
  Weltbürgerrecht soll auf Bedingungen der
  allgemeinen Hospitalität eingeschränkt sein”:
  “Cosmopolitan Right
  shall be limited to
  Conditions of Universal Hospitality.” <Already
  the question of conditionality, of conditional or
  unconditional hospitality, prese