Hotels seek the key to millennials | houstonchronicle.com

As young travelers seek a boutique experience, industry tries to design for them

Between work and vacation travel, Rusty Ellett says he spent about three months on the road in 2013 and two months the year before. He recalls this as a series confined spaces: rental cars, airplane cabins, the back seats of taxicabs. "These cramped aspects of traveling are all unavoidable except for the hotel experience," says Ellett, a surveyor with the American Bureau of Shipping who lives in Houston.