Aiming to woo highbrow travellers who require more than a week in the destination they're visiting, apartment hotels provide the luxury of a spacious, well-designed apartment with the added benefits of top notch amenities, such as concierge service, daily housekeeping, dining facilities and business and fitness centres.
They are careful, poring over floor plans and measuring closets; sometimes they insist on American-style services such as concierges and laundry.
In fact, an intern in Do Something's offices was answering her, and one of the challenges in the new strategy is how to keep the costs of such "cause concierges," as Ms. Lublin calls them, within the organization's annual budget, $3 million in cash and $6 million in products and services.
To complete the list, we tapped luxury experts such as concierges and travel consultants, and culled luxury blogs and newspaper headlines to come up with a list of dining experiences deemed exclusive by virtue of their exorbitant price or their limited access.
White links this with more segregation: "Increasing hotel-like services within these buildings, such as concierges, gyms and bars, make people less reliant on the community around them".
Higher risks have been reported for specific categories of painters, metal, textile and electrical workers, miners, transport operators, excavating-machine operators and also for non-industrial workers such as concierges and janitors (Kogevinas et al, 2003).
They will be modelled on American and German developments: residents will get services such as a concierge and dry cleaning.
For some, the perks that come with many credit cards, such as free concierge services, cosmetics and air-miles, make keeping a wallet-full worthwhile.
To entice employees to move, they also often throw in the services of relocation specialists like Ms. Montchal, who informally fill such roles as concierge, travel planner, transportation manager and neighborhood greeter.
