Hotel-design Quote by Editorial Board of Approaching Hotel Designers

“What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical…

— Neal Stephenson

“As we moved from Tokyo the world became greener.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud…

— Italo Calvino

“And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the…

— Donna George Storey

“All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the…

— Polly Horvath

Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside…

— Apolo Ohno

“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by…

— Olivia Sudjic

“That night I took a long, wandering walk through Tokyo. I was restless and felt the need to move, to let the city’s currents…

— Barry Eisler

“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with…

— Rebecca Solnit

“People travel the whole world to discover newer things, but rarely do they discover their own selves!”

— Avijeet Das

“When we allow ourselves to explore, we discover destinations that were never on our map.”

— Amie Kaufman