gem hotel chelsea

The Gem Hotel Chelsea Tourism Product DevelopmentExplore The Hidden Gems

Xiao CuiApril 26, 2016

Agenda

✦About The Gem Hotel Chelsea

✦ Research Area

✦ Attractions

✦ Ideas of Products

✦ Tourism Product Development

The Gem Hotel Chelsea

@ 300 West 22 Street

✦ Neighborhood boutique hotel, has 81 rooms

✦ The Gem Hotel Brand (2007) The Gatsby Hotel (SOHO) @135 E Houston St The Gem Hotel Midtown West (permanently closed) The Gem Hotel Union Square (under construction)

✦ Accessibility C, E, 1, 2 @23rd St M20 @8 Ave/W 20 St M23 @W 23 St/8 Ave

About The Gem Hotel Chelsea

W 28 th St

Gansevoort St

11th

Ave

7th Ave

Chelsea Historic District

Meatpacking District

Research Area

✦ Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1970

✦ Extended in 1981

✦ One of the oldest neighborhood in NYC to keep its original name

Chelsea Historic District

✦ 1750 ✦ The name was given by Thomas Clarke ✦ A “ten-square-block span” near the water of NY,

named “Chelsea” after a soldier’s home near London ✦ 1830 ✦ Real founder---Clement Clarke Moore ✦ Clement Clarke Moore Park @ 195 10 Ave

“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was

stirring, not even a mouse.”

Chelsea Historic District

Thomas Clarke Clement Clarke Moore

✦ In 1840s, the meatpacking business and meat plants started

✦ In 1900, 250 slaughterhouses and packing plants filled the district

✦ By the 1930s, those houses produced the nation’s third-largest volume of dressed meats.

Meatpacking District

Gansevoort Market Historic District ✦ National Register of Historic Places

in 2003

✦ The market was originated named after General Peter Gansevoort, revolutionary war hero

✦ Grandson is Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick

Art & Museum (x7)

Restaurant (x12)

Entertainment (x8)

Café & Dessert (x6)

Attractions

1. Fashion Institute of Technology

2. Whitney Museum of American Art

3. Ground Zero Museum Workshop

4. LUMAS New York Pop-up Gallery

5. Andrea Rosen Gallery6. Robert Miller Gallery Inc

7. George Billis Gallery

8. The Old Homestead Steakhouse

9. Tipsy Parson10. Sugar Factory American

11. Brasserie12. Chelsea Market13. Trestle on Tenth

14. Bottino15. Tia Pol

16. Del Posto16. The Meatball Shop18. The Standard Grill

19. Buddakan

20. Les Toiles Du Soleil21. Atlantic Theater Company

22. Gotham Comedy Club23. Chelsea Piers24. The High Line25. Samsung 873

26. The Joyce Theater27. Clement Clark Mooer Park

28. Billy’s Bakery29. HARBS

30. Gelato Giusto31. Rocking Horse Café

32. Café Grumpy33. Le Grainne Café

Attractions

1. 20.30.

Tourism Product Development

ArtFood

HistoryThe Gem Hotel Chelsea Visitors/Customers

Picnic @ The High Line

Picnic BasketHotel provides coupons

Picnic Choice Recommend

Admire the beautiful viewsEnjoy amazing food

Chelsea Art MarketArt · Food · Live Music

Working with local food businesses,

art galleries, freelance artists

Customers will get discount with hotel room key

Display and sell artworks in the hotel

to support local artists

Thank You