 Historic Kviknes destination hotel in Norway 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.[1] 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.[2] 1. ...
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Since the 1800s, the traditional concept of a destination hotel has been based upon a venue which is typically remote and has a natural feature as its attraction.[1] For example, the Kviknes Hotel in Norway is a difficult to reach remote location which provides visitors access to the scenic fjord at Balestrand. Historically there were certain built-in amenities such as gourmet cuisine, music recitals and shoreline trails; however, the amenities of modern (post 1980) destination hotels dwarf the scale of these earlier models. Many of the Las Vegas and Carribbean resort hotels have complete shopping malls, conference centers and large entertainment halls on site; thus, the contemporary version of a destination often features large on-site capital investment in activities, although the access to a local natural feature is still retained by many newer destination hotels (e.g. Hotel l'Anjajavy in Madagascar). Fjord in Sunnmøre, Norway A fjord (or fiord) is a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes, which results from marine inundation of a glaciated valley. ...
County Sogn og Fjordane Landscape Sogn Municipality NO-1418 Administrative centre Balestrand Mayor (2003) Erland Fagermoen (KrF) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 231 430 km² 411 km² 0. ...
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Historic examples There are numerous historic venues which were well known in the 19th century, some of which survive to the present. Examples of these properties include: Main Lodge Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs is a California Historical Landmark property near Gilroy, California, famed for its mineral hot springs and historic development by early settlers and Japanese immigrants. ...
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- Kviknes Hotel, Balestrand, Norway
- Metropole Hotel, Avalon, California, circa 1887 Victorian style hotel[3]
- Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs, Gilroy, California, USA[4]
- Hotel Metropol, Vienna, Austria[5].
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Types of destination hotels There are several distinct types of destination hotels including: - Geographically remote locations often associated with a noteworthy natural feature such as a volcano or rainforest
- Urban settings[6]
- Conference center oriented
- Specialized activity settings (e.g. Disneyland Hotel)
- Hotels of unusual construction by virtue of being built into a specialized environment (e.g. ice hotels, cave hotels or treehouse hotels)[7]
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References - ^ a b Grant Ian Thrall, Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England (2002)
- ^ Alvin L. Arnold, Arnold Encyclopedia of Real Estate, John Wiley and Sons (1995}
- ^ Stephanie Avnet Yates, Best Places Southern California, Sasquatch Books (2003)
- ^ National Register of Historic Places, U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Office of Management and Budget No. 1024-0018
- ^ pg. 121, Dieter Klein, Martin Kupf, Robert Schediwy (Ed.) Stadtbildverluste Wien - Ein Rückblick auf fünf Jahrzehnte. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-8258-7754-x
- ^ John Thomas Delaney, Paul F. Clark, Ann C. Frost, Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector, University of Illinois (2002)
- ^ John Hill, Robert Glazier, Winford "Buck" Lindsay, Thomas Sykes, Stephen A. Kliment, Brian McDonough, Building Type Basics for Hospitality Facilities, John Wiley and Sons, New York (2001)
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