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Trend : Alternative Lodging

The Success of Alternative Lodging

These alternative forms of accommodation contrast dramatically with the established standards of big hotel chains and are contrary to a certain vision of luxury held by the majority of today’s travelers. Alternative lodging offer amateurs not only a place to spend the night but also the possibility of living a real experience.

This type of accommodation is often based on the novelty of a place, due to its atypical character or its history, an interval that can only be judged in terms of the desire of the visitor who is going to live this experience.

The possible accommodations offered today cover a wide range of possibilities for those seeking to discover a different way of life, to follow in the footsteps of some historic individual or simply allow themselves to fall under the spell of an out-of-the-ordinary location.

Yurt in Mongolia, Capsule Hotels in Tokyo, historic buildings in England, ice-hotels, cave hotels, monasteries, lighthouses, huts and tepees all exist, or almost. And they work.

Alternative lodging is successful thanks to their particularities, which are often recommended by the first guests, generously covered by a media found of the unexpected. Their guests are also motivated by the idea of experimenting with a niche product that is still unknown to the mass tourists. This is a tourism area where Tahiti and Her Islands are ahead of the rest, not trying to catch up. There’s the legendary and much-missed Nana’o on Tahiti with its bungalows sitting on the water or built into treetops. But now there’s the Vanira Lodge on Tahiti’s peninsula, a worthy heir that is more modern and better equipped.

There’s the Tarariki Village on Tahiti’s sister island of Moorea with its bungalow at tree-top level and the “Fare le” with its African safari type tents on the Leeward Island of Huahine. Just some of the other ways of discovering the alternative lodging that exists in French Polynesia.

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