The Interior Environmental Design in the Hotel Room for Elderly Tourists

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to study the behavior of elderly tourists in hotel rooms and to study the design of the interior environment of the hotel room in accordance with the needs and behavior of the elderly. The research tool are the check-list questionnaire and the estimation scale questionnaire. The statistics are percentage, mean, standard deviation. The research method was to collect field data, which was divided into 2 parts: Part 1, social and economic data. Then analyze the presented data into 5 types of floor plans. The picture of the floor plan was used to collect data in the second part, which is information about the satisfaction with the interior design of the hotel room. The results of the research revealed that the sample group wanted to have a living area, a dining area, a balcony, and did not want a kitchen, a multipurpose area, a washing area. The sample group wanted to use wood materials and earth tone color in decoration as much as possible without requiring any pattern at all.