Obviously and simply there are 2 main purposes for the traveling. First is tourism, which includes all types of rest, active or leisure, recreation and health care. Second purpose is business with such valuable attributes like necessity to hold meetings, availability of communication facilities, convenient location of the hotel and, sometimes, necessity to underline the status. The city you are wondering about now, with its hotel infrastructure, is among few matching well both travel purposes, so visitors of Stuttgart, whether they come for tourism or business, will find exactly what they target at. For tourists and leisure travelers Stuttgart is ideal in terms of abundance of sights to see, things to do and cheap Stuttgart accommodations. Traveler will face a great choice of possibilities for budget accommodation in Stuttgart, from cheap Stuttgart B&Bs and inexpensive hostels in Stuttgart to mid-range Stuttgart hotels. Selection of budget accommodations in non-resort city like Stuttgart is very reasonable since most of the time Stuttgart visitors spend their time on foot or bus tours in Stuttgart or neighboring cities. Thus, as for sleeping, cheap Stuttgart hotels and other types of Stuttgart accommodations listed above are good enough plus you are guaranteed to have a great German breakfast (if not a Stuttgart hostel).
Subject to the purpose of the business trip you take to Stuttgart, the selection of mid-range Stuttgart hotels and 5-star Stuttgart hotels is great. Remember that Stuttgart is a large industrial city with plants and factories around, so location of your Stuttgart hotel and its proximity to factories or main transportation crossings and airport might be a value sometimes. Actually, starting with 3-star, hotels in Stuttgart offer most of business facilities like meeting rooms and internet access. The latter, however, may not be free as in some neighboring European countries. So, finding a cheap business hotel in Stuttgart is still possible under your budget considerations.
You will easily find what to be busy with if you have time in Stuttgart, which is a thousand years old. The city was heavily destroyed in WWII with many of the great monumental buildings without possibility of restoration, but still there are some very beautiful old-fashion streets and castles. Among other places of interest, it is advisable to visit fantastic Carl Zeiss Planetarium, Merecdes-Benz Technical Museum, gallery Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunstmuseum & Kunstgebaude museums of modern art. Very interesting festivals are held in Stuttgart: Winevillage in the 1st decade of September and Christmas market in December, and many others. Ger ready for an interesting time in Stuttgart!