"crisis and were temporarily renting capsules by the month. This style of hotel has not gained wide popularity outside Japan, although Western variants known as ""pod hotels"" have been developed, with larger accommodations and often private baths. The first capsule hotel in the world was the Capsule Inn Osaka, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and located in the Umeda district of Osaka, Japan. It opened in 1979. In 2012, China opened its first capsule hotel in Xi'an. In 2014, the first European capsule hotel opened in Belgium. In 2015, Iceland opened the first capsule hostel in Reykjavik. In 2015, a capsule"
"the globe are the Riosol Hotel in Gran Canaria, Caruso Belvedere Hotel in Amalfi Coast (Italy), Aman Resorts Amankila in Bali, Birkenhead House in Hermanus (South Africa), The Caves in Jamaica and Caesar Augustus in Capri. Capsule hotels are a type of economical hotel first introduced in Japan, where people sleep in stacks of rectangular containers. Some hotels fill daytime occupancy with day rooms, for example, Rodeway Inn and Suites near Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Day rooms are booked in a block of hours typically between 8 am and 5 pm, before the typical night shift. These are"
"drawers in a morgue. The open end of the capsule can be closed, for privacy, with a curtain or a fiberglass door. Luggage is stored in a locker and washrooms are communal. Guests are asked not to smoke or eat in the capsules. Some hotels also provide restaurants (or at least vending machines), pools, and other entertainment facilities. Capsule hotels vary in size, from fifty or so capsules to 700, and they are used primarily by men. Some capsule hotels offer separate sections for male and female guests. Clothes and shoes can sometimes be exchanged for a ""yukata"" and slippers"
"Michael Adorjan, a University of Hong Kong criminology professor, has noted that ""The United Nations has called cage and cubicle homes an 'insult to human dignity.'"" Cage hotels, a form of single room occupancy, were common in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century; an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 people lived in them during the winter. A 1958 survey by Christopher Jencks found that homeless men preferred cage hotels over shelters for reasons of privacy and security. A similar preference for cage hotels over shelters was reported in turn of the century New York City, where single working men"
"within their housing complexes in Lake Buena Vista, FL. In the Netherlands, the law forbids companies to offer housing to their employees, because the government wants to prevent people who have just lost their job adding to their stressful situation by having to search for new housing. In Japan, many of the larger companies as well as some of the ministries still offer to their newly graduated freshmen a room in a dormitory. A room in such a dormitory often comes with a communal cook (for the men) or rooms with furnished kitchen blocks (for the women). Usually the employees"
"hotel was opened at Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila, the Philippines, for passengers in transit. In January 2017, the first capsule hotel opened in Hong Kong. On September 17, 2017, a capsule hotel in Indonesia was opened in Surabaya, East Java. The hotel is called Tab Capsule. In August 2018, a capsule hotel with 120 rooms is opened at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport Terminal 3. The first capsule hotel in India was opened on 1 March 2017 in Andheri, Mumbai. The hotel, called Urbanpod, contains 140 units with an individual area of between 50 square"
"Capella Hotels and Resorts, the owner and operator of luxury boutique hotels in New York City, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and Thailand. The three companies tentatively announced they would renovate the building into a 48-room hotel beginning in 2011. The D.C. hotel would become the chain's flagship hotel. Obtaining financing during the Great Recession proved difficult. Castleton and ICG took on a third equal equity partner, the Indonesian investment firm Point Ford Management Ltd., which provided part of the $45 million ($ in dollars) in financing needed for the renovation. (The deal was Point Ford's first American hotel investment.) The remainder"
"function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In the United Kingdom, a hotel is required by law to serve food and drinks to all guests within certain stated hours. In Japan, capsule hotels provide a tiny room suitable only for sleeping and shared bathroom facilities. The precursor to the modern hotel was the inn of medieval Europe. For a period of about 200 years from"
"Pension (lodging) A pension ( or ; ) is a type of guest house or boarding house. This term is typically used in Continental European countries, in areas of North Africa and the Middle East that formerly had large European expatriate populations, and in some parts of South America such as Brazil and Paraguay. Pensions can also be found in South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. In contrast to bed and breakfasts, more usual in the United States, pensions typically offer not only breakfast, but also lunch, dinner and sometimes even tea. Rather than paying for the room and each"
"terminal building. Airport hotels have grown popular due to their convenience for transient passengers and easy accessibility to the airport terminal. Many airport hotels also have agreements with airlines to provide overnight lodging for displaced passengers. Major airports in such countries as Russia and Japan offer miniature sleeping units within the airport that are available for rent by the hour. The smallest type is the capsule hotel popular in Japan. A slightly larger variety is known as a sleep box. An even larger type is provided by the company YOTEL. Airports may also contain premium and VIP services. The premium"
"""casa particular"" (""private home"") became the main form of accommodation outside the tourist resorts. In Hungary, B&Bs are very popular. They usually are a small family-run hotel, have an intimate ambience and a pleasant atmosphere. It provides an affordable alternate for the hotels. In Hungarian the B&B is called ""Panzió"" or ""Szálló"". In India, the government is promoting the concept of bed & breakfast. The government is doing this to increase tourism, especially keeping in view of the demand for hotels during the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. They have classified B&Bs in 2 categories - Gold B&Bs, and Silver"
"brand names like Holiday Inn, and in some laws that refer to lodging operators as ""innkeepers"". The Inns of Court in London were once accommodations for members of the legal profession. Other forms of inn exist throughout the world. Among them are the honjin and ryokan of Japan, caravanserai of the Ottoman Empire, and Jiuguan in ancient China. In Asia Minor, during the periods of rule by the Seljuq and Ottoman Turks, impressive structures functioning as inns () were built because it was thought that inns were socially significant. These inns provided accommodation for people and their vehicles or animals"
"staff presence. Because of limited staff presence, check in at a guest house is often by appointment. An inn also usually has a restaurant attached. In Japan, tenants in a guest house have to pay a substantial damage deposit, and have to pay a cleaning fee when they leave. In India, a tremendous growth can be seen in the guest house business especially in Delhi-NCR (national capital region) where progress in IT sector and Commonwealth Games 2010 were two most influential factor. Nowadays guest house accommodation sector has improved itself a lot. Even a home converted guest house is also"
"are commonly held in historic monumental houses or farms. There are approximately 5,000 bed & breakfasts in the Netherlands. Bed and breakfasts in New Zealand tend to be more expensive than motels and often feature historic homes and furnished bedrooms at a commensurate price. The trend of B&Bs in Pakistan is quite widespread. Popular resorts like Murree, which attract many tourists from different parts of the country, have a number of such resthouses. The expenses can vary, depending on the quality of facilities. Most bed and breakfast facilities tend to expediently cater to families, given the high level of group"
"in the Southern Hemisphere, containing an ""en-suite"" bathroom and walk-in closet (in Wilson's era en-suite bathrooms were uncommon). Famous presidential suites can be found in the Plaza Hotel in New York City, and The Fairmont San Francisco. Royal suites can often signify that Royalty have stayed at that suite in the past. Royal suites are more common in hotels in countries with monarchies, such as the Ritz Hotel London. A very small number of hotels have both a Presidential and a Royal suite. In these instances, usually both suites are of a comparative size and price, but differ in style"
"the Americas and Asia. Sleeping in the country's hotels, the most numerous are the British, Spanish, French, Germans, Brazilians, the Dutch, Americans, Italians, and the Japanese, which not only want the sun and the beach, but mostly cultural ones, city breaks, gastronomy, nautical tourism, or business traveling. Portugal won 14 ""Oscars"" of the tourism. The national tourism had 77 nominations and won a total of 14 awards in more than 10 European categories, surpassing Spain or Italy, at the gala of the World Travel Awards 2015, whose ceremony took place in Sardinia, Italy. CNN compared Lisbon and Porto head-to-head in"
"Crowne Plaza Crowne Plaza is a multinational chain of full service, upscale hotels headquartered in the United Kingdom. It is catering to business travelers and to the meetings and conventions market. It forms part of the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands, which include InterContinental Hotels & Resorts and Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, and operates in 52 countries with more than 400 hotels, usually located in city centers, resorts, coastal towns or near major airports. Originally branded as ""Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza"", the first United States Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel was opened in Rockville, Maryland, in 1983. Within"
"In Nigeria tipping is not so common at upscale hotels and restaurants because service charge is usually included in the bill though the employees seldom get this as part of their wages. In recent times however, the service provider usually coerce the customer for tips in a subtle manner. There have been reported cases of security guards asking bank customers for tips. In China, traditionally there is no tipping. However, hotels that routinely serve foreign tourists allow tipping. An example would be tour guides and associated drivers. In Hong Kong, tipping is not typically expected at hotels or restaurant establishments,"
"those under the Cumulus and Holiday Inn brands. Scandic Hotels Scandic Hotels is a hotel chain headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with its main operations in the Nordic countries. Alongside hotels in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands and Denmark, the company also has a presence in Belgium, Germany and Poland. It is owned by EQT Partners. The first hotel in what was later to become the Scandic chain was the Esso Motor Hotel in Laxå in the province of Närke, central Sweden. Opened in 1963, it capitalized on the increase in car travel, both for business and pleasure – the"
"where the market segment has shown significant growth since the 1990s and become highly competitive. In Central and South America, a ""motel"" (in Mexico, ""Motel de paso"") is an establishment often associated with extramarital encounters and rented typically for a few hours (15 minutes to 12 hours). In Ecuador, any establishment with the title ""Motel"" is related to extramarital encounters; in Argentina and Peru these hotels for couples are called ""albergue transitorio"" (""temporary shelter"") and offered for anything from a few hours to overnight, with décor based on amenities such as dim lights, a jacuzzi and a king-size bed. In"
"and the guest workers' country of residency is to blame for the prevalence of payment withholding. Research suggest that guest workers are more willing to endure abusive environments and low wages, regardless of the labor rights they are given under the visa programs, due their inability to switch employers and lack of social safety nets. Labor rights violations under the current guest worker program are alleged to include threatening workers with assault and blacklisting workers who report illegal activity, threatening the physical well-being of employees’ families, and requiring inhumane working hours. America’s programs have been criticized for failing to improve"
"thought to have motivated those doing agrarian work to take a break to avoid the hottest part of the day. In cities, the dismal economic situation in Spain in the post-Spanish Civil War years coincided with the advent of both a modern economy and urbanisation. At that time, a long midday break—with or without siesta—was necessary for those commuting between the part-time jobs which were common in the sputtering economy, at a time when both private and public transport were virtually non-existent. Some Canadian hotels and motels advertise ""siesta"" rates for occupancy of a room for a few hours. The"
"the author as ""getting men to relax, feel good about themselves as 'men,' and be sexually titillated by attractive, flattering women."" They are frequented by groups of males from Japanese companies seeking to relax in the evening hours after work. Such outings are often viewed as mandatory in the work environment. Specialized areas of Tokyo and other large cities have developed which feature these establishments. Prices are often high and, as in many commercial fields, a wide range exists between low-prestige and high-prestige clubs, based on price and exclusiveness, often defined by the level of education of the serving women."
"the concept of the B&B, there are equivalents of the British boarding houses elsewhere in the world. For example, in Japan, minshuku are an almost exact equivalent although the normal arrangement would be the equivalent of the English half-board. In Hawaii, where the cost of living is high and incomes barely keep pace, it is common to take in lodgers (who are boarders in English terminology) that share the burden of the overall rent or mortgage payable. In the Indian subcontinent boarders are also known as paying guests. Paying guests stay in a home and share a room with domestic"
"number of workers flying to Mauritius from Nepal was 24 and they are mainly employed at sugarcane farms, sugar industries and hotels. Nepalese workers, along with migrant workers from other countries, claimed that they live in terrible conditions. The workers often live in dormitories provided by their employers that are crowded and decrepit. Also many of them have to take out large loans in order to pay labor agents who connect them with work in Mauritius. However, most workers struggle to make enough to pay back their loans, cover their most basic living expenses and save a small amount of"
"healthy business people can rest and recuperate well-being during a regular job vacation. For example, Sanatorium Astória and others located in Karlovy Vary Czech Republic, or Geneva Sanatorium Hotel in Ukraine may serve the purpose. Usually in this case a doctor's prescription is not required. However, a general practitioner is available and recommended for guests to check their health status in the beginning and at the end of their staying in a hotel. In ""How the Universe got its Spots,"" (pp. 63-70), physicist Janna Levin describes a scientific meeting in a sanatorium near Moscow at the end of 1999. She"
"en suite bathrooms may also be available. Hostales are common in Spain and are also found in Mexico, Central and South America and California. They are often family-run, independent businesses, with a strong involvement with the local community. ""Hostal-residencias"" are the same as hostales, but generally without a cafetería or other place where guests can eat. Though the word ""hostal"" is similar to ""hostel"", the two words refer to different types of accommodation. ""Hostels"" refers to properties that offer shared accommodation, typically in dormitories, while ""hostal"" refers to a type of family-run pension typically common only in Spain and a"
"Working Conditions (Hotels and Restaurants) Convention, 1991 The Working Conditions (Hotels and Restaurants) Convention, 1991, officially the Convention concerning Working Conditions in Hotels, Restaurants and similar Establishments is an International Labour Organization Convention adopted in 1991 during the 78 International Labour Conference. It sets standards for work in hotels and restaurants. According to the convention, workers have a right to ""reasonable normal hours of work"" and ""minimum daily and weekly rest periods"", compensation (in time or remuneration) of work on holidays. Furthermore a basic remuneration should be paid in regular intervals, regardless of tips. As of September 2012, 16 countries"
"majority of the units are privately held, and the facility does little to accommodate the public. In the Philippines condominium hotels carry a condominium real estate deed. This allows foreigners to acquire up to 30% of the condotel units, unlike most other real estate. This has made this particular development popular in the country. While not intended as a complete list, the most popular locations in the U.S. for condo hotels include: Aspen, Chicago, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, the Las Vegas Valley, New York City, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Orlando, Florida. Condo hotels are also found at ski resorts and"
"meal separately, guests select a plan which either comprises overnight accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner (""full board"") or the preceding minus the lunch (""half board/demi-pension""). These small businesses may offer special rates for travellers staying longer than a week, may be located in historic buildings, can be family-run, and are generally cheaper than other lodgings, such as hotels, although they offer more limited services. Literature Films Pension (lodging) A pension ( or ; ) is a type of guest house or boarding house. This term is typically used in Continental European countries, in areas of North Africa and the Middle"
"bars and nightclubs looking for wealthy clients, especially French men. They are known as ""pupulenge"" (dragonflies) or ""gba moundjou"" (look at the white). Those who work in the poorer neighbourhoods are known as ""kata"". The same survey found the age of the full-time prostitutes ranged from 16 to 30 and most (90%) came from the Central African Republic. Others came from the Congo, Chad and Cameroon. Condoms in the country are rare, as they are in other sub-Saharan countries. As a result infections of HIV and other STIs are high amongst sex workers in the country. UNAIDS estimated that in"
"or ""estaderos""; in Panama they are called ""push buttons"" or ""push"" for short; in Argentina and Uruguay, ""albergue transitorio"" or more informally, ""telo"". In Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Puerto Rico, they are simply called ""motels"" (the word is exclusively used for love hotels). In Brazil motels (approximately 5000) are part of the urban landscape. Very popular, they are associated with erotic transgression, but also with romantic love. In Nigeria, love hotels are called ""short-time"". They are often dingy accommodations in densely populated areas. Some other hotels offer ""short-time"" services unofficially. In the United States and Canada, certain motels in low-income"
"increase of expectations: TV and video games in every bunk, 3G internet access, coffee machines, wide memory foam mattresses, decent air conditioning, etc. Some travel companies use them as mobile hotels, taking tourists to locations where there is no hotel or there are long distances overnight. In China, sleeper buses are a common means of long-distance transportation. They are slightly more expensive than trains, but also a little faster, and tickets are more readily available. There have been a number of fatal crashes involving these buses in China. In India, these buses are used for inter city travel and are"