Abstract
In recent years several new forms of lodging have developed as alternatives
to the hotel. For business travellers the serviced apartment has emerged as a
new phenomenon. Within extant accommodation scholarship the service apartment
sector has attracted minimal international attention either from tourism or
property researchers. This paper analyses the development and character of service
apartments in one of South Africa’s major business tourism destinations, the
city of Cape Town. It is disclosed that serviced apartments are clustered around
different business nodes in the city and spatially differentiated in terms of serving
distinctive business traveller markets.