Unusual Hotels
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Destination hotel
A destination hotel is a place of lodging whose inherent location and amenities attract visitors regardless of the route needed to arrive or the areawide features of interest. The destination hotel concept has existed at least since the 19th century and occupies a significant market share of all lodging in the world as of 2006. From the late 1980s to the present the extent of amenities and conference facilities has greatly expanded for many destination hotels. Destination hotels are also called destination lodgings and destination resorts. Considerable academic and business analysis has been conducted in the field of destination hotels. In the Arnold Encyclopedia of Real Estate a destination hotel is characterized as a place of lodging not chosen for convenience and not chosen for people in transit to other areas.
The following typically are characteristics of a destination hotel:
- Amenities which are quite complete and self-contained
- Upscale nature of the lodging operation
- Distinctive characteristics of the building, gardens or adjacent natural feature
- Activity set which makes leaving the property unnecessary
There are numerous historic venues which were well known in the 19th century, some of which survive to the present.
- Raffles Hotel, Singapore
- Kviknes Hotel, Balestrand, Norway
- Metropole Hotel, Avalon, California, USA, circa 1887 Victorian style hotel
- Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs, Gilroy, California, USA
- Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, California
- Hotel Metropole, Vienna, Austria
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