The New Trend: Hotel Theme Parks

A growing number of travelers are looking for hotels that have been transformed into little theme parks.

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November 25, 2002, 6:00 AM PST

"One of the fastest-growing trends in travel is theme hotels. There are concepts for every taste: from the elegant Library Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where room numbers are based on the Dewey decimal system of classifying books (900.004 for the Asian History room), to the adventurous Jules' Undersea Lodge at the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon in Key Largo, Fla., where guests scuba dive to the entry of their underwater accommodations. "This is a real trend for the traveler who has been there, done that," says Mary Tabacchi, professor of hotel management at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration."

Thanks to Chris Steins

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Monday, November 25, 2002 in Time

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