Villa (hotel business)

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Typical tropical resort hotel, on the left the hotel wing, on the right the villa complex
( Villa Concepcion Wet and Wild , Pandi, Bulacan, Philippines)

In the hotel industry, a villa is an upscale form of a holiday home .

Today, many rural luxury hotels have accompanying single houses in the style of a bungalow that are rented out next to the rooms . They usually have their own, delimited open space such as a garden or swimming pool. They thus represent a further development of the bungalow hotel ( lodge ). Widely used, they form part of a resort , i.e. a more extensive accommodation and leisure facility that goes beyond mere hotel operations. Typical additions to the hotel name are "Villas & Spa Resort" and the like.

The entire accommodation infrastructure, such as room service , is provided. The villa guests can also use the more public offers of the hotel itself, i.e. restaurants and cafes , salons , shopping, spa , conference rooms, etc. Correspondingly similar specializations (all-suite) are called pure bungalow complexes without an explicit main house all-villa .

Villas are typically used as part of a stay of several days. In addition, like suites as apartments , they can also be rented on a long-term basis, and some of them can even be purchased, with the care offering remaining. This includes the Villas to the sector of non-hotel accommodation .

Typical of hotel architecture is the widespread use of local building forms, which are combined with modern architecture and the spatial concepts of upscale living ( critical regionalism ), and which are clearly differentiated from the representational architecture of the hotel buildings, which tends to be monumental.

  • Modernist-localizing designs

  • Thatched stilt houses
    ( Landaa Giraavaru Resort , Maldives)

  • Indo-European house
    ( Losari Resort , Magelang, Java, Indonesia)

  • Salzkammergut boathouse
    ( Fuschl Castle , Salzburgerland, Austria)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard H. Penner, Lawrence Adams, Walter Rutes: Hotel Design, Planning and Development . Publishing house Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-113514089-2 , especially chapter Resort Hotels , p. 199 ff ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Penner, Adams, Rutes: Hotel style. , 2013, p. 4, col. 1 ( Google book search ).