5 Fastest Growing Trends In Hotel Interior Design
Top Trends in Interior Hotel Design
The rapid growth and expansion of the travel and hospitality industry means that hotels can no longer count on their name and reputation to ensure customer loyalty.
With every launch of a new hotel there are more and more quality properties to entice the traveler. Hotels need to spend more attention and money to maintain their customer base by featuring amenities that appeal to these valuable customers and enable them to rise above the competition.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the attention being spent on interior design in some of the world’s top hotels. We’ll touch on some of the most notable trends in interior design with the hotel customer in mind.
Luxurious Spa Bathrooms
The focus on luxury in a high-quality hotel means that in this age of day spas as a necessary amenity for the pampered traveler, the bathroom has become the hotel guest’s own private spa.
While upscale hotels have featured their own lines of bath soaps, shampoos and lotions for years, they’ve taken the concept of the spa up a notch by investing in fixtures and amenities in their guest’s bathrooms that you would expect to see only in the finest day spas.
Oceans of space, waterfall showers, Jacuzzis, heat lamps, over-sized bathtubs and giant luxurious towels are just some of the delights travelers will discover in their bathrooms, along with the obligatory line of custom bath soaps, shampoos and lotions.
The bathroom is becoming one of the first parts of the guest room that a hotel guest explores on their arrival in their room.
Signature Restaurants
The days of the hotel offering simply a restaurant branded under the hotel’s own name are long gone. These days, hotels all over the world sign partnerships with famous chefs and restaurant brands to feature upscale restaurants, cafes and lounges on their properties. The amount of design attention these establishments command is equally impressive.
Walking into a branded restaurant in a hotel is literally like stepping into another world. Having a number of these upscale eateries under one roof, each catering to a different type of cuisine is also very appealing to the hotel guest and boosts a hotel’s own brand name.
The Latest in Technology in Every Room
Particularly when a hotel is trying to appeal to the business traveler, having the latest technology at their guest’s fingertips has become extremely important. It’s vital that the business traveller doesn’t become disconnected from their home office or their clients when they’re travelling.
A hotel room where everything can be controlled from the lighting to the air-conditioning can be controlled from the guest’s own smartphone offers another level of technology that the technology-savvy guest will appreciate.
These days travelers rely on their smartphones for everything from making reservations to keeping track of online boarding passes. A hotel that supports this direction in technology by placing the guest in control of their own environment is just good business sense.
Embracing Local Design Culture
The days of walking into cookie-cutter hotel chains whose interiors were designed in the same style are over. Hotels now embrace the location they’re in and adapt hints and elements of the local design aesthetic and culture into their own interior designs.
This surge in creating notable interiors has led to some of the most stunning hotel lobbies and grounds that have earned their designers awards and recognition for their creativity.
Travelers look forward to checking into a hotel knowing they won’t simply be seeing the same lobby over and over. It’s both refreshing and serves to mark hotels as being separate and unique properties even though they may be under the same brand.
Bringing in Outdoor Elements
Cultural amenities and design features are indicative of trying to blend in with one’s location. But nothing says blending in like featuring indoor waterfalls, a blurring of indoor and outdoor spaces by the use of movable walls, picture windows facing garden hotel garden spaces and the creative use of indoor plants of the region.
These elements also offer hotel guests the sense that they’ve left the work a day world behind and are now in their own garden environment. It eases their travelling hassles and allows them to relax and enjoy what a hotel has to offer while gazing out on a pastoral scene far away from airports, taxi queues and crowded streets.
