Hotels Think Small | wsj.com

Yotel, Pod Hotel and CitizenM Aim to Use Microhotel Playbook for Manhattan to Expand in U.S.

Microhotels are hot in Manhattan, and operators hope they will play in the rest of America, too. Emerging hotel brands like Yotel, the Pod Hotel and CitizenM Hotels have been a big hit with travelers to global capitals like New York in recent years, stacking up hundreds of scale-downed rooms, focusing on design and turning lobbies into social hubs.