The places where we live and work are more than job locations. This blog explores the regions connected to Orange Hospitality Group through three lenses: Layers of Place, focused on history. The Living Landscape, centered on current developments and community momentum. In the Global Conversation, highlighting how our locations appear in media and public dialogue. Our goal is to share source-backed stories that help readers, especially U.S. and international students, understand these places and see work and travel as part of a bigger story.
We’re used to seeing “Pardon Our Progress” signs inside hotels. But when an entire destination upgrades—roads, lifts, resorts, attractions—the same principle applies at a much larger scale. Here’s what that season teaches about modern hospitality...
Long before it became America’s most-visited national park, the Smokies were a lived-in landscape—shaped by Indigenous homelands, mountain communities, logging railroads, and a conservation movement powered by everyday people...
