1809 C. Edwards Let. in (1824) Feb. 162/1 So little, indeed, is the business of hotel-keeping understood or appreciated by the Portuguese.
1870 ‘F. Fern’ 247 Having then left what, in my opinion, is the perfection of hotel-keeping.
2007 (Nexis) 8 Mar. He always had time to stop and be pleasant, which is, after all, what hotelkeeping is all about.