A few days ago, we showed you what the vacation home of the future would be like, the characteristics and the demand that it would have. Today it’s up to the hotels, as they are not far behind. Business Insider has recently published what the hotel sector of the future would be like and what it is about, pointing out what that room of the future would be like that we all dream of or have even seen in the odd movie and that we have found shocking and even impossible to see. Well no, those futuristic rooms of action movies that we once thought impossible to see in our times, they do exist and they are becoming more and more normal.
There is no doubt that the hotel of the future will be technological, we are in the millennial era, technology dominates the world and it will not be the exception for the hotel sector. Robots turned into butlers, smart mirrors and mobile payments are the order of the day. The present of travel technology is going so fast that it is difficult to foresee where the shots will go in terms of development, since emerging technologies such as virtual reality or 3D printing that before yesterday sounded like predictions, are today a reality more than settled. But if there is a clear trend that the hotel industry in particular, and travel in general, seems to have adopted as its own, it is called Artificial Intelligence.
¿But what do we expect from the rooms of the future?
- Self-selection.
Because if we can choose the position in an airplane, we cannot do it in the rooms of a hotel. Having the possibility of booking a specific room in small hotels or even large hotels is an aspect that is not so common, we tend to choose a certain type of room, but not the room we want for ourselves, away from the elevator, on high floors , or in the lowest one, or that is inside for greater tranquility. This is an aspect that is being included within the characteristics of the hotels, allowing to select a room at the time of booking.
- Technology.
The technological aspect is essential, in a hyper-connected world, guests must have the possibility to manage everything at the click of a button, watch Netflix, control the lights and even the air conditioning with their mobile phone, something that hotels will incorporate into the design of your smart hotel room in the near future, but not only rooms, hotel lobbies are also the object of digital technology evolution, they are no longer spaces for sitting and talking only, they have even become business spaces.
Personal devices with increasing access to streaming content allow guests to work and socialize anywhere in the hotel, which is why connectivity in any hotel space, whether in the room or in the lobbies is essential.
- Better designed spaces.
According to Business Insider, the design of hotel rooms will change in the coming years, smaller and more light-filled rooms, with much larger bathrooms and more comforts and technological aspects.
- The bathrooms will also be like a spa.
According to Zeev Sharon, Hotelied founder, “People like luxury spa-like bathrooms,” “When hotels design a bathroom these days, they really need to think about things like space – is there enough room for a toiletry bag? here? – and a rainfall shower is becoming the norm too. A lot of attention has gone into reinventing the bathroom to make it more of a spa, and one can do it in all high-end hotels. Everything is relative, but even in a three-star hotel, much more attention is being paid to the bathroom ”.
- Smaller rooms.
Sharon says that flat screen TVs are a hotel developer’s best friend as they have allowed rooms to be smaller as they no longer need large closets to accommodate bulky TVs. Hotels are moving closer and closer to the “just the essentials” style, as demonstrated by capsule hotels (like Yotel), of which he predicts there will be more.
The rooms will be equipped with high-tech lighting features. Incorporation of LED lights and the possibility of managing them from the mobile. Controlling the accessibility to the room and being able to see the state of the room from where you are, are also characteristics that previously seemed difficult to have in a room but that today are already being incorporated.
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