"We're waiting for a licence to be cleared in China then I should be under way in the next six months."
Micro rooms are being installed by other companies at airports throughout the United States and Europe, but Swann said he believed he had the size just right.
He dreamed up Snoozecubes after watching actor Tom Hanks struggling for a comfortable place to sleep in the movie Terminal and talking to tourists who had had to sleep on airport floors en route to New Zealand.
"This is what is needed in the international market - there was nothing for the average traveller," said Swann.
A Snoozecube.
Snoozecubes were appealing to a broad market. "We're getting first-class people and business-class people through the cubes. They go to the lounges, eat, shower and clean up and then come and get horizontal in my establishment."
The company was also keen to expand at Dubai Airport, one of the world's busiest, but was struggling to find extra space there.
Swann said high demand at nights meant he was comfortable about a looming price rise to US$20 an hour.
"Because of how busy we get we've had to put in a policy of women and children getting the first option."
