Francis Léonard, the hotel's marketing director, says that at the end of one season the Swedish army used the Jukkasjarvi hotel for artillery practice.
— A replay of last year's N.C.A.A. women's tournament championship game was on television Monday morning as Notre Dame's players waited in their hotel rooms to leave for practice.
In hotels, the most active buyer is CNL Hospitality Properties of Orlando, Fla., a unit of the CNL Investment Company, according to Sean Hennessey, the director of the hotel consulting practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Not according to Patrick Goff, who ran an award-winning hotel design practice for 25 years before setting up Hoteldesigns.net, an online industry resource: "When a designer talks about a hotel being 'homely'," he says, "he's lying.
The situation in Algeria and Tunisia differs slightly, in that the real estate market was less well established than in Egypt, according to Chiheb Ben Mahmoud, head of the hotel advisory practice for Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels in the Middle East and North Africa.
Finally, a hotel for dog-loving, yoga-practicing, environmentally conscious history buffs.
Priscilla Campbell, who heads up the hotel practice for American Express, said that more businesses were widening the scope of hotel classes they use.
Independent boutique hotels may lack a national reservations system, but they have a fatter profit margin than some chain operations, noted Sean Hennessey, director of the New York hotel practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
While fans have been buzzing about the idea ever since the league green-lit a cold-weather championship game in New Jersey's New Meadowlands, rules dictating minimum requirements for hotel rooms and practice facilities probably nix the idea.
