Hotel Design, Planning and Development: Planning and Development - Hardcover

Penner, Richard; Adams, Lawrence; Robson, Stephani

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080966993 ISBN 13: 9780080966991

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Travel and leisure is the world's largest and fastest growing industry. This book anticipates the increasing demand for diverse hotels, resorts, and leisure-time amenities now appearing worldwide. Hotel Design, Planning, and Development presents the range of significant hotel types being developed today and illustrates them in their full global array of settingsThe book discusses the latest trends from guestrooms perched atop ultra-tall mixed-use towers to lavish desert villas shaded by high-rise structures to exotically themed resorts rising out of pristine tropical island waters. The book outlines essential planning and design considerations based on the latest data, supported by technical information and illustrations, including original plans. Analysis and theory supports each of the major trends that is presented, highlighting how the designer's work fits into the development of the industry as a whole, and giving a clear understanding of how successful new concepts develop. The experienced author team and their contributors represent both the professional and academic sides of the subject. In major sections covering Hotel Types, Design, and Development, they provide the developer, architect, designer, and hotel executive with a comprehensive and practical international overview of hotel design.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Penner is a professor at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.

Lawrence Adams, AIA lead architect behind several renowned hotel projects, taught Hotel Design at NYU and co-authored first edition of Hotel Design, Planning and Development.

Stephani K. A. Robson is a senior lecturer at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.

Review:

“[V]ery beautifully designed, elegant . . . . [G]ives the reader an awesome, broad, creative, delightful and welcoming view of the global hospitality business. . . . Just looking at these images is a learning experience in itself and can give builders, developers, hotel owners and managers, and students a lot of ideas on conceiving and developing new hotels.”
- Bizindia

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0080966993
• ISBN 13: 9780080966991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 456