Boutique Hotel Resort Trends

There is a vast choice of places to stay for today's avid travellers. One one hand you have the big brand chain hotels like The Hilton and the Holiday Inn, and on the other there are boutique hotels. What exactly is a Boutique hotel? Well they are indivual in that they are different from a chain hotel. They are also different from each other. Confused? Well Boutique hotels offer you that little touch of individuality and personal attention that is so often lacking at a large hotel.


Spa's are a significant feature of most boutique's. Many offer amazing treatments such as facials, massages and body wraps, which use local ingredients, flowers and herbs. Some of these spas even tailor make customized packages to suit individual needs. Many boutique hotels will offer a concierge service for organizing trips and events.

Customer service at boutique hotels is usually exemplary. Boutique's are usually smaller than chain hotels and as such, each guest is rewarded with extra attention. The staff can also live onboard the hotel. Boutique's range in size from 20 -200 room. The average has about 80. The furnishings are usually splendid one off's commissioned from local artists, which in turn reflect the local culture and traditions. Local art antiques, pottery, rugs, anfd textiles are all highly represented at boutique's. Not something you would regularly see at a chain hotel.

The boutique industry is actually thriving. There is no shortage of travellers opting to stay at them. The charming ambience and luxurious amenities are appreciated by their many quests. Couple that with all the latest technology, wireless internet connections, plasma screens and DVD players, spa's, fitness suites and swimming pools, you really have everything you will ever need at your fingertips. Being as a lot of resort boutique's are situated in a busy hub, there are restaurants, nightlife and entertainment to enjoy also. And most offer a concierge service, so someone can book it all for you. With all this and a relaxed homely environment, it's plain to see the bookings will continue to surge at boutique hotels for the forseeable future.

Boutique Hotel News:

Two Pints Of Lager.. And A Fabulous Flat - Glasgow Sunday Mail

Two Pints Of Lager.. And A Fabulous Flat
Glasgow Sunday Mail, UK - 7 hours ago
She helped choose colourschemes and picked furniture that hints at boutique hotel elegance. In the large open-plan lounge, Richard has maintained a neutral .
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IF YOU GO - Chicago Tribune

IF YOU GO
Chicago Tribune, United States - 5 hours ago
Hotel Teatro ( www.hotelteatro.com), a 110-room boutique hotel decorated with theatrical photos, costumes and props, opened in 1999 in the completely redone .
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Working on the Walthall (The Clarion-Ledger)
Corporate businessmen Michael and Steven Roberts see their recent purchase of the Edison Walthall Hotel as more than a chance to buy a historic property...


Marylebone Warwick Balfour aims for third time lucky in hotel sale - Times Online

Times Online

Marylebone Warwick Balfour aims for third time lucky in hotel sale
Times Online, UK - Aug 17, 2008
One analyst pointed to the bidding battle for Morgans Hotel Group, the Nasdaq-listed boutique hotel operator, as a pointer to what might happen to MWB's .
Malmaison and Hotel du Vin up for sale for third time CatererSearch
PRESS DIGEST - British business press - Aug 18 Reuters
Boutiques set a fashionable example Times Online
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Toronto: Original Boutique Hotels :: The Hazelton Toronto
Hotel Indigo has (like many others before it) in fact broken one of the cardinal rules of proper boutique hotels: thou shall not exist in suburbia. Also, thou shall never have more than one location with the same name, let alone 16. ...


How Smith finds boutique hotels
Another travel blog asked us recently how we went about finding the wow-inducing boutique hotels in our collection. Juliet has been blogging about what checkboxes a hotel has to tick before it gets into the Smith collection (and a ...


KVD Communications Agency Appointed by Tecton Hospitality and Desires Hotels (Centre Daily Times)
Miami-based Tecton Hospitality, a professional hotel management company, and their boutique division, Desires Hotels, has announced their appointment of New York-based KVD Communications as its new Public Relations Agency, to handle their expanding consumer and business public relations needs...


Not an all-inclusive hotel plan, but close (Baltimore Sun)
We want to vacation in Zihuatanejo (not Ixtapa), Mexico, and would like to stay at an all-inclusive hotel. We'll arrange our own flights and local transportation but would like to have the rest of the vacation be simplified. Do you have any suggestions?..


Top 10 Ultra Boutique Hotels
We separate the big boys from the small...


Rock-star luxury for new Watermark - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

Rock-star luxury for new Watermark
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Aug 22, 2008
Wellington's five-star Bolton Hotel has signed up to manage the luxury Watermark boutique hotel, touting rock-star-ready suites at more than $1000 a night. .
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Destination: Here - Boston Herald

Destination: Here
Boston Herald, United States - 8 hours ago
The boutique hotel, formerly a Holiday Inn, opened in February and features valet parking, a steakhouse, bistro and seasonal outdoor pool complete with .
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Top 10 Ultra Boutique Hotels
Practically every hotel is a EURboutiqueEUR nowadays. Appropriated by a growing number of 100-plus room properties, the EURboutiqueEUR tag may be the most outworn moniker in the hospitality industry. So where are the lodgings that reflect the ...


Destination: Here (Boston Herald)
Between tight budgets and torrential downpours, hot summer fun's been pretty scarce. But there's still time to find a last-minute swanky summer getaway. Just...


New Hotels in Beijing
Enticingly stylish boutique hotels can be found developing in some of Beijing s ancient hutongs among the courtyard homes and busy street life that characterizes the hutongs. Other boutique hotels have been newly built and prove more ...


Thailand inStyle Partners With The Old Bangkok Inn (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Thailand inStyle is pleased to announce the inclusion of The Old Bangkok Inn to its highly selective portfolio of hotels and boutique hotels in Thailand...


Boutique Hotels In Goa
All the boutique hotels in Goa are set in acres of pristine beauty and have themes which include the fields, the sea, the mountains and the other natural landscape. The Pousada Tama is the most popular one among them. ...


Wood Keycards Debut at Denver Hotels During Democratic National Convention (Hospitality Design)
Boulder-based Sustainable Cards has contributed its wood-based keycards to 35 Denver hotels during the Democratic National Convention. The cards are in line with the convention's green initiatives. Sustainable Cards says that the keycards, made of wood shavings, are biodegradable and renewable...


Lifestyle Specialist - TORONTO, ON
assist guests concerning: restaurants, theater/musical productions, airlines, automobile, rental...


Virtuoso & VIRTUOSO LIFE Honor the World's Most Exquisite Hotels and Unveil the 'Best Of The Best' (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Leading luxury travel network Virtuoso proudly announced last night the winners of its second annual Best of the Best Awards. Winners, which represent the world's finest hotels, resorts, spas and villas, were revealed on August 20, 2008, by VIRTUOSO LIFE Publisher Terrie Hansen and Virtuoso Hotels & Resorts Program Vice President Albert Herrera, during a gala dinner at Virtuoso's 20th annual ...


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