NEW DELHI: A jocular Narendra Modi on Friday referenced a cliché used in the United States to display to overseas Indians how they might inspire tourism to India.
"You people are known as 'hotel motel Patel wallas', can each one of you influence five people to visit India?" he asked, in a video deal with to the Saurashtra Patel Cultural Samaj of USA, which is preserving a practice in California.
The cliché refers to the fact that the Gujarati Patel neighborhood dominates the motel-running business in the United States, and people steadily consult with the hotels - every so often pejoratively - as 'Patel Motels'.
"Whenever you get guests in (your) hotel/motel you can put (on a) five-minute clip on India on the TV...when the guests turn on the TV, they will be able to see what India is," mentioned the PM.
He used to be without a doubt correct in talking in regards to the Patels' dominance in the hotel-motel business.
A 2014 article in the reputed Smithsonian magazine mentioned that a minimum of half of America's hotels are owned by way of Indian-Americans. And 70 % of the ones are owned by way of people from Gujarat (most commonly Patels).
"Stop in at a motel anywhere in the US, and you are likely to find an Indian-American family at the helm of it," mentioned the item.
Another article, from 1999, in The New York Times, mentioned: "Pull off any Interstate highway and look for a cheap bed for the night and there is a better-than-even chance that the motel you will curl up in belongs to Indians."
According to V Raghunathan, director of the India campus of York University's Schulich School of Business, a 2015 estimate used to be that the Patel population in the United States is as prime as 257,000. At the time, the title 'Patel' ranked 174 a number of the top 500 surnames in the United States.
"For years they been a significant source of the prosperity for many Gujarati villages and towns, and have made a name for themselves, operating motels. The US motel industry has some 22,000 hotels and motels owned by Indians valued at some $128 billion. A good 70 per cent of these are owned by Gujaratis – 75 per cent of whom are Patels. Such is their stranglehold in this line of business there that they are often referred to as Potels, a la motels," wrote Raghunathan in a 2015 weblog publish for TOI.
"You people are known as 'hotel motel Patel wallas', can each one of you influence five people to visit India?" he asked, in a video deal with to the Saurashtra Patel Cultural Samaj of USA, which is preserving a practice in California.
The cliché refers to the fact that the Gujarati Patel neighborhood dominates the motel-running business in the United States, and people steadily consult with the hotels - every so often pejoratively - as 'Patel Motels'.
"Whenever you get guests in (your) hotel/motel you can put (on a) five-minute clip on India on the TV...when the guests turn on the TV, they will be able to see what India is," mentioned the PM.
He used to be without a doubt correct in talking in regards to the Patels' dominance in the hotel-motel business.
A 2014 article in the reputed Smithsonian magazine mentioned that a minimum of half of America's hotels are owned by way of Indian-Americans. And 70 % of the ones are owned by way of people from Gujarat (most commonly Patels).
"Stop in at a motel anywhere in the US, and you are likely to find an Indian-American family at the helm of it," mentioned the item.
Another article, from 1999, in The New York Times, mentioned: "Pull off any Interstate highway and look for a cheap bed for the night and there is a better-than-even chance that the motel you will curl up in belongs to Indians."
According to V Raghunathan, director of the India campus of York University's Schulich School of Business, a 2015 estimate used to be that the Patel population in the United States is as prime as 257,000. At the time, the title 'Patel' ranked 174 a number of the top 500 surnames in the United States.
"For years they been a significant source of the prosperity for many Gujarati villages and towns, and have made a name for themselves, operating motels. The US motel industry has some 22,000 hotels and motels owned by Indians valued at some $128 billion. A good 70 per cent of these are owned by Gujaratis – 75 per cent of whom are Patels. Such is their stranglehold in this line of business there that they are often referred to as Potels, a la motels," wrote Raghunathan in a 2015 weblog publish for TOI.
Why a jocular PM Modi said 'you're called 'hotel motel Patel wallas'
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