The airport hotel as business space

Donald McNeill

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    Abstract

    This article seeks to contribute to debates about the mobile nature of contemporary economic practice, through a discussion of some key themes in the evolution of airport hotels as business spaces. It argues that despite being emblematic of a hypermobile business elite, the nature of hotels as business spaces requires careful unpacking. The article begins by discussing the evolution of the airport hotel, charting the shift from basic lodging standards to recent developments of five star airport hotels. It then seeks to explain the locational geographies of airport hotel development, in response to these new trends. Finally, the article describes how the business traveller is conceived of and (speculatively) catered for by airport hotel operators and designers within a discourse of connectivity, before providing some counter-examples of how such claims fail to address the hotel's place within the complexity of airport spatial organization.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)219-228
    Number of pages10
    JournalGeografiska Annaler Series B : Human Geography
    Volume91
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009

    Keywords

    • airports
    • business travel
    • design
    • economic geography
    • hotel management
    • hotels
    • real estate developmen

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