Architecture Design Research On Chinese Boutique Hotel

In21century, the hotel industry develops at top speed especially in China where thereare a large number of hotels which get the better quality among the world. As thedevelopment of worldwide transportation, economy, culture and technology, the scalesand types of hotels become diverse and the service and management system alsobecome perfect in recent years. At the same time, there are increasing similar hotels dueto the fierce market competition, which lead the customers have aesthetic fatigue. Theyquickly get boring about the traditional hotels so that the boutique hotel was producedby some hotel operators which could meet the requirements of hotel personalized.It has been20years when boutique hotel came up in the world and it also gets thetypical marketing positioning and functions. In recent10years, the rapid developmentof boutique hotel draw some investors and experts’ attention. To the boutique hotel,architecture design is quite important to show the specific hotel culture and designconcept compared with other hotel types. What is more, the strong cultural deposits andadequate customers markets in China fits with the essence of boutique hotel whichcould support the development of it. Even though it began later in China, it is potentialto develop. However, the definition of boutique hotel is not clear enough and researchesof that are not particular enough, which the descriptions of relevant architecture designdo not summed as a whole system. Therefore, this essay tries to summary and analyzeboutique design through some case studies on boutique hotel in China.Firstly, it will define the conception of boutique hotel based on the previousdefinitions and summarize the basic types and characteristics of boutique hotelcompared with other types of hotel like resort hotel and design hotel. Secondly, thisessay will put forward the advantages and disadvantages and the countermeasuresthrough multiple analysis of the current boutique hotel situation. Last, the main thingsof this essay is to do an initial research of domestic boutique hotels. According to theresearch, it will make a conclusion about the architecture design, site selection,functions design, architectural style and landscape and interior design of the boutiquehotels. This aims to make the references to some investor, experts and customers whichwill promote the future development of boutique hotel.