The Role of Hotel Architecture in Tourists Attraction Development

Abstract

Hotels and accommodations of the cities have a basic role in attracting tourists and people traveling to the city. Since business and fun trips are going to increase day-to-day, modern hotels should respond the needs of a wide range of tourists who have been residents there. However, little attention to the role of architecture vision in hotels designing has caused decreasing numbers of tourists who are residents at hotels. The objective of this research was to investigate the important factors in hotel designing, in order to attract tourists, in other words, recognition of effective factors in hotel architecture designing which will influence on choice of tourists. A questionnaire, with the content of effective factors in architecture, in order to attract tourists to hotels, has been prepared and distributed among resident tourists at hotels in Gorgan. The results show that, though exterior design can be effective, but the thing which is more important to tourists, is the facilities within the hotels. Somehow, facilities and exterior design are complementing each other. So besides a good exterior designing, architects should pay more attention to design of interior spaces.