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BIO-Hotel

English translation: Eco-Hotel (see comments)

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German term or phrase:BIO-Hotel
English translation:Eco-Hotel (see comments)
Entered by: severn (X)

05:19 Mar 23, 2006
German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel
German term or phrase: BIO-Hotel
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?
Tegan Raleigh
United States
Eco-Hotel
Explanation:
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."
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severn (X)
United States
Local time: 06:12
Grading comment
in context, it appears to not be a brand name, but a more general phenomenon...
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1Eco-Hotel
severn (X)
3 +1Organic-Hotel/Green-Hotel
rangepost


  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Organic-Hotel/Green-Hotel


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



    Reference: http://www.greenhotels.com/memnews.htm
    Reference: http://www.life.ca/nl/92/hotels.html
rangepost
Local time: 06:12
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Eco-Hotel


Explanation:
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."


severn (X)
United States
Local time: 06:12
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
in context, it appears to not be a brand name, but a more general phenomenon...

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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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