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Showing posts with label Ideas. Show all posts
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TECH| Services on IPOD & ITOUCH for all Guests

This is awesome!

I remember when palm pilots were the thing. You could download a software to turn your palm pilot into a remote control..what fun!

I did try & experiment with sharing the map (first mumbai, then chandigarh) with guests over bluetooth. Conceirge were given a bluetooth enabled handset & printer and guests could sync up.

But this is brilliant!







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Posted on| Thursday, October 16, 2008 Filed under: , ,

IDEAS| Here's a Package for TO save the Day!

The Colonnade Hotel in Boston is offering a "Bulls & Bears" package.

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Posted on| Monday, October 13, 2008 Filed under: , , ,

TECH| The Hilton Family of Hotels Launches Industry-First Personalized Group Web Pages

Editor| Finally. With all the ease of setting up a web-page and group page available out there it was time someone thought of it.

Finally, Hilton has.


e-Events Enables Customers To Shop, Plan, Book, and Manage Events Online with the a Personal Touch
Following the launch of its unique online group bookings for small functions of up to 25 guest rooms, called e-Events, the Hilton Family of Hotels has launched the next phase of its electronic event planning tool: complimentary Personalized Group Web Pages.

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Posted on| Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Filed under: , , , ,

IDEA| Modular spaces... RETHINK hoteliers!!

What are Bloxes?
Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together. Their unique shape and structure make them exceptionally strong and lightweight — you could build yourself a platform to stand on, and then pick it up and move it wherever you need to.

Editor| I have always wondered what creative banquet managers would be able to achieve if they could get their hands on something that could alter the shape, look and feel of a space, as & when they require.
we did a post on this sometime back IDEAS| Flexibility: The Ultimate Trend in Hospitality Design
Bloxes may not be made/designed with that in mind (they have corporate offices in mind) , but I think something like this is god send for hoteliers.
comments welcome!

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Posted on| Sunday, March 16, 2008 Filed under: , ,

IDEAS| Flexibility: The Ultimate Trend in Hospitality Design

by By Lee Simon

These ideas – or others that they inspire – will help you increase the flexibility of your food service facility....

* I once saw a facility designed with mobile half-walls. It as an open room, sub-divided with a series of half-height partitions which, once “released” from their secured position, would pop up on casters and wheel off to a storage room. It was a very clever design.

* All Day Dining restaurants in many resorts have
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Posted on| Wednesday, March 05, 2008 Filed under: , ,

NEWS| Training| Ultimate Team Play – the first interactive training game to be used in the hospitality industry



Interactive Training Program Created by Virtual Heroes for Hilton Garden Inn

Hilton Garden Inn®, the award-winning mid-priced hotel brand with locations throughout North America and Europe, today unveiled Ultimate Team Play – the first interactive training game to be used in the hospitality industry that utilizes game-based technology.


Created especially for Hilton Garden Inn by Virtual Heroes, Inc., Ultimate Team Play puts team members in a virtual Hilton Garden Inn hotel and in various scenarios, they will have to ....Click here to read full story>

Editor: This is awesome! I think this the right step and approach. You can keep learning customer handling and multi-tasking in a classroom, but this really will make you "DO". I also think this has a huge potential in India for language and body language. Any budding entrepreneurs out there??


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Posted on| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Filed under: , , , ,