Green Hospitality: How Hotel Room Technology is Promoting an Eco-Friendly Industry - In... - 1 views
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Green Hospitality: How Hotel Room Technology is Promoting an Eco-Friendly Industry - Intelity
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rnobl005 on 07 Jun 18I'm fascinated by the applications hotels are incorporating into their business model and product line in recent years. What I liked about this article is that it shows that incorporating green technology doesn't have to be very difficult. The author cites that this is a growing trend in the industry. Using green methods can be great for brand perception as well as the operational bottom line. On a basic level, touchscreen tablets and energy efficient rooms seem to be the most popular updates to hotels. According to this article, hotels spent over $400 million on printing directions and collateral for guests in 2015. Companies can cut this cost significantly if they place a tablet in every room that displays the information digitally. InterContinental even went as far as to replacing print Bibles with digital versions on Kindles. Finally, managers should see the benefit of having guests funnel all of their requests through a database. They can mine through this data to gain insights on how to staff or order food/beverage goods more efficiently.
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the implementation of in-room touchscreen tablets is increasingly being used as a method of making guest rooms better examples of green hospitality.
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Energy efficiency is one of the biggest current draws for investment in in-room devices
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Businesses within the hospitality industry are continuously making efforts to strive towards sustainable practices through technology. Being energy efficient is key to most business and has become important. For example, the utilization of automation features in the guest room such as automatic lights on a timer or even automatic climate control systems can contribute to those costs. Also, having a system where changes to reservations or updates can be done electronically which will eliminate the process of having to reprint pages of paperwork. All in all, hotels are now growing with the technology today allowing them to adapt more and more green practices
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Green computer technology can bring more benefits to the hospitality industry. The hotel can save more costs and become more energy efficient because of the green computer technology. The hotel can set in-room touchscreen tablets. Energy cost takes 6 percent of operating costs. Hotel use pads or Android tablet devices to benefit both customers and companies. The first benefit is hotel room tablets can be used and managed more flexible. The hotel can monitor lights and air conditioning can be shut down based on guest activity. The second benefit is hotel room tablets can replace all printed materials traditionally in the hotel room. The data showed the hospitality industry already spend over 400 million on printing property. If the hotel can use tablet devices in the hotel room that could save more benefit. For example, InterContinental Hotels replaced print Bibles with digital versions a few years ago. Customers can choose different kinds of the book from digital devices. The hotel doesn't need to update their book again and again. In the future, digital devices will be updated more perfect and bring a fully functional touchscreen in the hospitality industry.
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This short article talks about the positive impact of technology in the hospitality industry. It also illustrates some example of technology saving millions of dollars for hoteliers by saving energy.