The origin of motie

Motels first emerged in the United States. The original word comes from the English motel, which is the abbreviation of motorhotel (i.e. mobile hotel). The biggest difference between it and ordinary hotels is that the parking spaces provided are connected to the rooms. The first floor is used as a garage and the second floor is a room. A single-family room is a typical motel room design. In the United States, along with self-driving travel across states and provinces, motels have already developed into a "station-style" supporting industry with tens of thousands of hotels. However, because its positioning is lower than that of a hotel, the accommodation price is only half of that of a hotel, about thirty or forty dollars a night, so the guests include people from all walks of life.

However, after motels landed in Taiwan, they became an anomaly. They were very different from American-style motels and became synonymous with Taiwanese people’s high-quality life. Occasionally escaping from the familiar bed at home and spending a fresh and romantic night in a motel has become a new way of life for Taiwanese people.

Motels not only evolved greatly after they entered Taiwan, but the humorous Taiwanese also gave it a localized name: motel, based on the transliteration of motel. "A latte with Italian coffee and milk is delicious, and a motel with a car and hotel is fun." This is a saying that young people in Taiwan often talk about nowadays.

The motorcycle railway was first introduced to Taiwan in the 1970s by an overseas Chinese named Wang who returned from the United States. He built a hotel called "Chibai Garden" in the fifth phase of the rezoning area in Tainan City. ” motel.

There are many motels in Taiwan. Due to fierce competition, motels are operated in a leisurely manner. The decoration design has reached the level of high-end hotels, and there are themed room designs (such as Hawaiian style, science fiction). (form), the guests applying for housing are no longer limited to tourists, but also extend to the leisure and entertainment needs of the general public. Motels are of high quality and low price. In 1952, American Kemon Wilson opened the first motel. This self-service cheap motel was warmly welcomed by driving tourists as soon as it came out. In particular, the French Accor Group's "Formula One" low-cost motel opened in 1985 and opened 1,000 branches around the world in just 15 years, achieving great success. In China, Shen Feiyu's Merrill Lynch International Holdings Group established the Chinese version of the hotel chain industry with brands such as Motel 168 (motel) and 268 in 2003, which greatly changed the pattern of China's hotel industry. It is different from Western budget motels. , China's Motel is gorgeously decorated and adopts a standardized construction model, eliminating all facilities that customers do not need inside to reduce costs and provide cheap accommodation services to business travelers and vacation families who drive at low prices. In the West, traveling by car and staying in cheap motels have now become a lifestyle habit for Westerners. According to relevant figures, more than 90% of driving tourists in Western countries like to stay in motels, especially cheap motels, which reflects people's love for cheap motels. In China, in addition to the Motel chain hotels in large and medium-sized cities that provide international standard services, what we can often see are the so-called "motels" scattered on both sides of the main highways. Most of them are run by farmers. Mom-and-pop shops", in addition to some guest houses invested and built by collective enterprises, are not "motels" in the modern sense. These stores are small and scattered, making them unhygienic and unsafe.