There is no textbook definition of a boutique hotel, such a device would defy the whole meaning of one but some critics believe that the term has become abused or perhaps too frivolous. After years of success in the boutique industry many, including youth hostels and budget hotels, were claiming to be boutique when they were just funky and expensive. Thus the budding of the lifestyle hotel, another umbrella term that emerged on the market to separate themselves from cheap imitations.