Thursday, November 30, 2006


This conceptual image shows what a hotel room of the future might look like.


An early look at the hotel of tomorrow


This is project called HOT – Hotel of Tomorrow, conducted by HD Hospitality Design magazine and Gettys, a Chicago-based design firm, in order to create the hotel rooms of the next generation prior to others. This is not simply amending the existing amenities but creating totally new ones. The ideas are really futuristic starting from nano-painted walls, self-cleaning sheets, bed converting to shower, to health-measuring floor, and fashion consulting system.
This seems to be a real step forward in hotel design and increasing customer satisfaction.
Definitely, the hotels will implement them first will benefit from increased attention. The problem here is how to maintain all this complicated system. And wouldn’t it lead to increased costs. On the other hand, won’t it be too much for a customer, who will need to learn how to use these new amenities, and there are still some technophobes, and this could lead to a an inverse reaction, that customers would get annoyed by the complexity of the offer.
I think that the best is to find the golden middle between innovations and the classical offer, and introduce the innovations progressively.

To read the article, click here.

1 comment:

eac said...

Good observations about balancing innovation and operating costs...perhaps hotels need a different financial approach?