What’s the trend?

Far less gimmicky than it sounds, with more soul and deep-seated sustainable credentials, flat-packed hotels are based on principles of modular housing and prefabricated architecture. The building parts are manufactured in a factory, flat-packed and shipped to the destination to be assembled on-site.

While flat-packed anything is traditionally associated with cheap mass production, this changed when hotel group Habitas opened its first flat-pack hotel in Tulum back in 2017, delivering a thoughtful, sustainably slanted lifestyle hotel to burnt-out city dwellers who wanted to match light touch holidays with stylish simplicity.