Boutique hotels are small-capacity hotels that provide more personalized service than typical hotels. They typically have fewer than a hundred rooms, and are considered more "trendy" and "intimate", often due to their location in urban areas. They will usually also display a strong sense of aesthetic, and have a unique, un-homogenized character. They may be themed too, such as by having a focus on nature, environment, cuisine, history, community and cultural immersion, attentive service, or well-being.
3-745: URBN Hotel Shanghai is a boutique hotel located in Jing'an District in Shanghai , China. It is the first "carbon neutral hotel" in China: to be declared such, it is a part of the Cachet Hotel Group . The 26-room hotel is a converted 1970's former post office building, designed by A00 Architecture. By renovating an existing structure, focusing on using recycled and locally sourced materials such as reclaimed hardwoods and old Shanghai bricks, implementing eco-friendly solutions like passive solar shades and
6-496: A water-based air conditioning system, URBN Hotel Shanghai is one of the first examples of how to create a more ecological hotel establishment. Boutique hotel Boutique hotels first began appearing in the 1980s in major cities such as London , New York , and San Francisco . There is debate about who started the boutique hotel concept. Blakes Hotel in South Kensington, London , designed by Anouska Hempel , and
9-761: The Bedford by Bill Kimptom in Union Square, San Francisco, both founded in 1981, may have started the trend. The term "boutique hotel" was coined by Steve Rubell, who compared Morgans Hotel to a boutique as opposed to a department store , to which chain hotels were compared. In recent times, boutique hotels have grown in popularity, corresponding with the general public's increased interest in individualized service. Many hotel chains have begun to focus on creating subsidiary hotels to establish smaller, boutique-style hotels, or in acquiring previously independent boutique hotels. Boutique hotels are typically furnished in
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