Green Hospitality: How Hotel Room Technology is Promoting an Eco-Friendly Industry - In... - 4 views
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For example, 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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The hospitality industry spent over $400 million on printing property directories and marketing collateral for guests in 2015.
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Changes to menus, pricing, event schedules, and policies can all be made immediately by staff and accessed by guests through a digital compendium. This saves the need to reprint the same items over and over for simple changes.
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Intelity, a leading provider of in room tablet technology, outlines the cost savings involved by implementing these tablets into a room operation. Everything from menu's to bibles to hotel directories to maps can be stored on these devices. This can lead to drastically less paper waste for the hotel. These tablets can also interface with the room, allowing the guest to program their AC to shut off while they are away or to shut off based on guest inactivity. The technology is becoming so pervasive in the industry that it is now a consideration in the AAA diamond ranking systems. Nicholas Reynolds