Hotel guests should be aware of certain laws and regulations or policies that could impact their visits. Special concerns affect the “hospitality industry” because its establishments hold their property open to the public at large. For hotels (collectively referred to as “innkeepers” under many state laws), duties owed to the public at large are based on the historic consideration that when weary travelers reached wayside inns as night approached, they were not to be arbitrarily turned away into the dark (the roads were filled with robbers) or otherwise subjected to the arbitrary mercy of the innkeeper with regard to prices or adequacy of quarters. Modern innkeepers’ laws are mostly based on old English common law.