Prerequisites for the formation and the small hotel’s architectural typology development

Abstract

With the tourism industry active development in Russia in recent decades, there has been a steady increase in the small hotels number. The small hotels have always been a successful competition to the large chain hotels abroad. [1, 2] Minimum requirements for investments, the territory and the staff made it possible for small hotels to capture a large segment of the Russian hotel market. [3] The guest services individualization and the maximum concentration on meeting their most diverse needs have become the modern hotels’ hallmark. [4] The small hotels formula is: home-guests best meet these requirements. However, most of the small hotels that are being built today are created on individual projects, but without taking into account the designing past years’ experience. In addition, a lot of new terms and concepts have appeared in the hotel industry recently, reflecting the global trends in this industry, which are not yet fully reflected in architectural research.