The idea of the hotel as a place where one can feel the same way one feels in one"s own home is out of fashion. People do not travel these days to reach spaces reminding them of their house. To the contrary, we travel to escape routine and experience new sensations. The social diversification of recent years has generated new clients, anxious for new products and new scenes. The services of the hotels presented in this book respond to the demands of this contemporary public. They will be executives in need of Internet connection, no matter where they are; freelance professionals wanting to work from their rooms with total time flexibility; adventurers waiting to try the local cuisine; or the directors of large companies needing to unwind after intensive workweeks. Aside from offering these alternative services, one of the preferences of clients and hotel managers is name architecture. Architects of international prestige are commissioned with the design of new hotel complexes,...