hotel bookings via OTAs will continue to grow, amounting to a 25% share by 2022, compared to hotel-direct bookings which are likely to decline

A chic London restaurant and bar called Inamo is making patrons' dining experiences digital by projecting colorful menus and aesthetic patterns onto touch-sensitive tabletops.

VoIP also allows you to deliver more content and services to the telephone display, providing a richer, more satisfying experience to your guests. It's possible to have voice data and video on same cable which results in considerable saving.

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having an IP telephone in a standard guest room is becoming the norm, rather than the exception

Today, let's focus on the hotel/hospitality market, and their shift away from traditional telephony. As with any new technology, some examples in the "market" are quicker to adopt new technology earlier than others. What drives this interest and migration to new technology? It's usually competition.

As these devices become cheaper, it's only practical for the hospitality industry to move away from traditional telephony. Analog telephony is becoming a liability. Maintaining thousands of feet of cable, supporting two cable plants (voice and data), is becoming a thing of the past.

Officials at the 628-room property took almost four hours to fix the problem, as revellers waited in heaving guest areas around the hotel or slept in the corridors outside their rooms.

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broad use of iPads and other mobile tablets, which are heavy users of video streaming, the guest room Wi-Fi networks that most hotels thought they had brought up to standard just a few years ago are now often groaning under user demands

Hotels, he said, now must choose “either to not increase the amount of bandwidth, so everybody will get much slower service to the point where you’ll think you’re on a dial-up connection,” or upgrade and essentially put in a metered fee-based system.