Product Overview
Hospitality is the world's fastest growing industry, and businessand pleasure travelers are demanding more diverse hotels, resorts and leisure-time amenities around the globe.
This book explores the latest trends in hotel planning and design, capturing the vast range of today's most imaginative creations, from tower-high guestrooms to lavish desert villas to exotic resorts nestled by tropical-island waters. It outlines the essential criteria architects and designers must meet when planning for a wide variety of hotel types, and presents the most up-to-date technical information as well as detailed illustrations, photographs, and original plans. Highlighting the key concepts behind emerging trends and how each designer's vision fits into the development of the industry as a whole, the authors equip today's developer, architect, designer, and hotel executive with a comprehensive and practical guide to the world of hospitality design. 60 color photos / 200 b+w photos and line drawings
