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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

BIO-Hotel

English translation:

Eco-Hotel (see comments)

Added to glossary by severn (X)
Mar 23, 2006 05:19
18 yrs ago
German term

BIO-Hotel

German to English Marketing Tourism & Travel
This hotel offers all-organic food and rooms with untreated wood. I'm not sure what this is called in English. Any suggestions?

Pro-organic hotel, maybe?
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 Eco-Hotel
3 +1 Organic-Hotel/Green-Hotel

Proposed translations

+1
20 mins
Selected

Eco-Hotel

Or Eco-Friendly Hotel...several ways of going about this

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Note added at 23 mins (2006-03-23 05:42:57 GMT)
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...there are lots of Google hits for "eco hotel." Here are a few:

Cabañas Copal eco-hotel in Tulum, Riviera Maya, Mexico
http://www.cabanascopal.com/

Ecological(ly built) Hotels, Inns
EcoHotel Supplies
http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/ecological_hotels_ecohotels_...

The Evolution of the Ecohotel
by Judith Ritter
http://savvytraveler.publicradio.org/show/features/2000/2000...

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Note added at 12 hrs (2006-03-23 17:54:14 GMT)
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I absolutely agree that if it is a proper name it should stay as is, but when I saw "Bio-Hotel" it immediately brought to my mind all those other German words with "Bio": Bio-Laden, Bio-Lebensmittel, etc. I was assuming that if Tegan Raleigh were asking this question it must not be a proper name. If you google "Biohotel" there are lots of places using it not as a proper noun but as a regular noun: e.g.

www.biohotel-alpenrose.at/

Biohotel Pausnhof. Erleben und Genießen in Deutschlands erstem ...
www.pausnhof.de/

Biohotel Sommerau - Biohotels, Nichtraucher, Vegetarisch ...
www.biohotel-sommerau.at/

So I suppose the asker should confirm with her client whether or not this is a proper name.

Regarding "economy"--I suppose that's possible, but when I see "eco" I think of ecology first--for something economical I would expect the short form "econo."
Peer comment(s):
agree Maureen Millington-Brodie
31 mins
neutral Steven Sidore : I wouldn't have come up with this, but it's a good solution//They're right, it is a brand name, so I'm bumping down to neutral.
1 hr
neutral writeaway : but could also mean economy hotel......... anyway, seems it's a proper name and shouldn't be translated: www.biohotels.info/e/7739/index_en
2 hrs
neutral Francis Lee (X) : could refer to "economy" or also "eco" in the sense of eco-tourism (i.e. sustainable t., which makes this place look like an Ibis)
2 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "in context, it appears to not be a brand name, but a more general phenomenon... "
+1
1 hr

Organic-Hotel/Green-Hotel

I think Bio-Hotel is akin to a brand name.
Reference:

http://www.greenhotels.com/memnews.htm

http://www.life.ca/nl/92/hotels.html

Peer comment(s):
neutral writeaway : not 'akin' to a brand name, it is a brand name and so shouldn't be translated: www.biohotels.info/e/7739/index_en
1 hr
Thank You. Thats what I was looking for.
agree Bjørn Anthun : Sure, there are brands called biohotels.com etc., however it's not necessarily a brand name if a hotel calls itself a Bio-Hotel. In the US, it's usually something with 'organic' or 'green' (e.g. Built Green, Green Hotels Association, Travel Organic, etc.)
10 hrs
Thanks
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