A Look Into The Future Of Hotels

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The first YOtels were first installed at London's Gatwick and Heathrow airports in June 2007, by Simon Woodroffe. Simon is the chairman and founder of the YO! company. The YOtel's pods are more or less roomy compared to general capsule hotels although quite little related to a popular hotel room. Every pod is composed of Wi-Fi, flat screen TV and en suite bathroom. This is a vision to the future of hotels and the features which are in store for the industry and consumers. So now in 2012, what do hotels of the future insures when not controlled by space-saving grounds?

Aero Hotels: Alternative entrepreneurs, investors and architects are gazing up in the clouds as the new location of the future hotels. Several proposals covers large-scale aircrafts that similar to blimps complete with restaurants, shops and rooms. Nevertheless in 2009 the first sky-bound hotel was really opened; the Hotelicoptor is a double deck Airbus A380 bragging the best in luxurious vacationing with fine dining and eighteen luxurious rooms. Up-and-coming is also the Aircruise by UK company Seymourpowell who say their aero hotel of the future is going ...
... to be a enormous, vertical airship flying travellers in luxury, comfort and style, promoting penthouse, viewing decks, bars and apartments.

Foldable Hotel Pods: Back to the pod theme, this is a famous design convention for these blue-sky thinking hotels, but here it is portability that is the essential convenience. These hotels can be based anywhere, not to mention the best white sandy beaches with crystal clear waters that the world has. Complete research into the environmental outcome that these pod hotels would have on the local area must be carried and many analysts forecast that once the green credentials are secured this intention will really begin.

Underwater Hotels: Recently the design world has seen a lot of ideas, blueprints and plans made for underwater hotels. Leading this is Deep Ocean Technology (DOT) who the Daily Mail revealed on earlier this year with their design for the Water Discus Hotel. The complex building will be half-submerged with twenty-one rooms offering underwater views of the exotic ocean life. Even if the Maldive's Rangali Islands resort is officially the first underwater hotel as it's already, up, working and receiving reservations for newlyweds that would like to sleep with the fishes, literally.

The most probable point for most of these luxury hotels is Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, which are presently the world leaders in original architecture and boosts in the tourism and travel industry. And definitely, the price to stay in these science fiction-like accommodations is high enough to surprise anyone.

Zac Colbert writes on numerous architectural and design related subjects, from luxury private jet charter to the best environmentally friendly offices around the world.