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A 'bellhop' (also 'bellboy' or 'bellman') is a hotel porter, who helps patrons with their luggage while checking in or out.
The job's name is derived from the fact that the hotel's front desk would ring a bell to summon an available employee, who would "hop" (jump) to attention at the desk in order to receive instructions.
Historically, this employee traditionally was a boy or adolescent male who may have been otherwise unskilled but able to carry luggage; hence the term ''bellboy''. Today's bellman must be quick witted, a good conversationalist, charismatic, outgoing, and understand the basics of human psychology to better customize each guest's experience.
Often (s)he wears a uniform, like certain other page boys or doormen.
In many countries such as the United States, it customary to tip such an employee for his or her service.
This position can also be held by a woman today, with the progression of equality in the workplace. The term "bellhop" is much less gender specific than "bellman" or "bellboy".
Duties that are often included in this job are opening the front door, moving luggage, valeting cars, calling cabs, transporting guests, giving directions, basic concierge work, and responding to any of the guest needs.
★ The 1929 Marx Brothers musical/comedy film, ''The Cocoanuts'', featured an early, if unwitting, foreshadowing of gender equality in the job. The dialogue portion of the musical play featured a number of bellhops, all of them male. There were also a couple of chorus-line dance numbers featuring bellhops, all of them female. In case the viewing audience missed that subtlety, Groucho commented about it on-screen.
★ The bellhop task of paging guests was referenced in a famous and long-running series of radio and print advertisements for the Philip Morris tobacco company. The ads featured a young man with a strong tenor voice announcing, "CALL... FOR... PHILIP MORR-E-IS!"
★ In the video game Hotel Mario a species of Goomba appeared as an enemy character who was dressed as a bellhop.
★ In the popular children's television series, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody a character named Esteban works as a bellhop in the Tipton Hotel.
★ The cast members of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions at Disney theme parks are dressed as bellhops of The Hollywood Tower Hotel.
★ Bell Boy is a song by The Who released on their 1973 album Quadrophenia.
★ In their song "Orgasm Addict", The Buzzcocks refer to "butcher's assistants and bellhops, you've had them all here and there..."
★ The lead singer of American Rock band, The Killers, Brandon Flowers, was a bellhop at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada before he joined the band.
The job's name is derived from the fact that the hotel's front desk would ring a bell to summon an available employee, who would "hop" (jump) to attention at the desk in order to receive instructions.
Historically, this employee traditionally was a boy or adolescent male who may have been otherwise unskilled but able to carry luggage; hence the term ''bellboy''. Today's bellman must be quick witted, a good conversationalist, charismatic, outgoing, and understand the basics of human psychology to better customize each guest's experience.
Often (s)he wears a uniform, like certain other page boys or doormen.
In many countries such as the United States, it customary to tip such an employee for his or her service.
This position can also be held by a woman today, with the progression of equality in the workplace. The term "bellhop" is much less gender specific than "bellman" or "bellboy".
Duties that are often included in this job are opening the front door, moving luggage, valeting cars, calling cabs, transporting guests, giving directions, basic concierge work, and responding to any of the guest needs.
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★ The 1929 Marx Brothers musical/comedy film, ''The Cocoanuts'', featured an early, if unwitting, foreshadowing of gender equality in the job. The dialogue portion of the musical play featured a number of bellhops, all of them male. There were also a couple of chorus-line dance numbers featuring bellhops, all of them female. In case the viewing audience missed that subtlety, Groucho commented about it on-screen.
★ The bellhop task of paging guests was referenced in a famous and long-running series of radio and print advertisements for the Philip Morris tobacco company. The ads featured a young man with a strong tenor voice announcing, "CALL... FOR... PHILIP MORR-E-IS!"
★ In the video game Hotel Mario a species of Goomba appeared as an enemy character who was dressed as a bellhop.
★ In the popular children's television series, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody a character named Esteban works as a bellhop in the Tipton Hotel.
★ The cast members of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions at Disney theme parks are dressed as bellhops of The Hollywood Tower Hotel.
★ Bell Boy is a song by The Who released on their 1973 album Quadrophenia.
★ In their song "Orgasm Addict", The Buzzcocks refer to "butcher's assistants and bellhops, you've had them all here and there..."
★ The lead singer of American Rock band, The Killers, Brandon Flowers, was a bellhop at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada before he joined the band.
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