Guestroom / In-room

Motel 6 is Reborn with Phoenix Prototype
Accor North America announces first Motel 6 prototype in 12 years; new design focuses on style, in-room technologies
High Definition Demystified
For years, hotel operators have taken comfort in the fact that their boxy old rear-projection televisions (the ones tucked inside the armoire) would last at least five to seven years. If one broke, they simply swapped it out for an inexpensive newer model. Not anymore.

HTNG Workgroups Make Major Interoperability Progress

Fourth annual conference highlights cooperation, collaboration by industry groups and vendors toward open standards.
Roomlinx Launches In-Room Media & Entertainment System

Roomlinx solution puts movies, DVR capabilities, music, shopping, business productivity tools, PC and Web games, and more in the guest hands
Hotels Can Increase Revenue with Existing Internet Bandwidth through eTelemetry

eTelemtry's Notify manages Internet access usage, enables upselling of premium bandwidth services, displays custom ads in guest web browsers
Landmark Convergence

Bernard Gay, CIO of Kerzner International Bahamas, puts the Lost City resort at the forefront of hotel operations. Banking on the future of integration, Atlantis Resorts' new tower gets industry's largest converged network
Digital Deadline

The hotel industry prepares for the switch to an all-digital television
Guestroom of the future

Guestroom of the future gets practice run at U. Delaware The X-periment
Bare Essentials

Self-service hotel offers bargain rates instead of staff
U.S. Hotels to Invest $5.5 Billion in Upgrades

Following a record $5.0 billion invested in the U.S. lodging industry in 2006, the industry is expected to invest approximately $5.5 billion in 2007, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' latest forecast.

Motel 6 is Reborn with Phoenix Prototype