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1, the word BoutiqueHotel comes from when developer Ian Schrager and his partner Steve Rubell converted a small building, MORGANS, into an upscale hotel. Referring to the most accurate and comprehensive English-Chinese dictionary, boutique is translated into "smaller women's clothing stores and jewelry", which is a word unrelated to hotels. Therefore, the meaning of boutique in BoutiqueHotel can be understood as small, fashionable or closely related to fashion and trend.
2. MayerRus, a famous hotel expert, wrote an article in the authoritative hotel magazine and made an essential interpretation of the BoutiqueHotel. Ian Hilag, a leading management expert of American boutique hotels, pointed out that "boutique hotels" only refer to hotels with distinct and distinct cultural concepts.
This kind of hotel introduces the vitality of the city into the hotel and integrates some new elements into the lobby. There can be a sculpture or fountain in the middle of the lobby, with giant candlesticks covered with candles, and some restaurants are scattered around the lobby. While entertaining guests, such hotels attract local tourists who don't spend money but have taste to gather popularity, and create so-called indoor urbanization through nightclubs, bars and even hair salons in the lobby, which often becomes the core of the living room or surrounding blocks.