Australia: Boutique hotels now make up 10 per cent of all new hotel rooms
The proportion of "lifestyle" and boutique hotels in Australia has ballooned from below 3 per cent to 10 per cent of the national accommodation pipeline in the past six years, new research shows. The emerging hotel category refers to accommodation properties that have a unique design and that offer their guests experiences that connect them with the local area. While 3 per cent of rooms in the national pipeline were classed as boutique hotels in 2012, Colliers International's Karen Wales told Commercial Real Estate that the real figure was likely to be "miniscule" as a large proportion of that 3 per cent included lodges in regional areas.
