Emi Market Music Special

Emi Market Music Special

Emi Market Music Special

Hotel businesses market themselves on historical events or people, celebrity connections, geographical/movie locations to develop customer bases. Lucy Komisar, in The Travel Lady said: "no longer just places to sleep and shower, hotels are now environments for experience."

She reckoned in Paris, for example, the left bank Bel Ami (utilising Guy de Maupassant's 1885 novel) and for art links, the right bank Hilton Arc de Triomphe, should be visited. Such boutique hotels sit alongside guest houses, inns, pubs, clubs and restaurants the world over, exploiting all connections to boost trade.

Hotels in Literature

Hotels are perfect settings for creativity. Hedwig Baum’s novel Grand Hotel (1929; movie 1932) was set in Berlin’s finest hotel about thieves and guests; John Betjeman’s 1937 mock ballad poem The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel recounted Wilde’s arrest for indecency, and Peter S Beagle’s The Innkeeper’s Song (1993) was a sci-fi fantasy set in an inn called The Gaff and Slasher.