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Hyatt partners with Roomlinx to transform TVs
Hyatt Hotels Corp . has announced it is transforming the standard in-room television into an interactive entertainment center and virtual concierge at its full-service properties across the United States , Canada and the Caribbean . Roomlinx Inc . will provide the new technology |
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to up to 60,000 Hyatt guestrooms over the next two years .
The upgrade will allow properties to welcome guests to the room with a personalized greeting and mood-setting music and offer new features that include the ability to browse the Internet ; manage and
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print documents , spreadsheets and presentations ; make hotel room service orders and housekeeping requests ; access local directions ; and make dinner reservations . Meeting and group planners will also be able to use the service to send customized messages directly to guestrooms . |
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HOTELS Publisher Dan Hogan ( right ) meets with Paulina Divinova , international customer service manager for Cambro Manufacturing Co ., and Benoit Courcelle , director of international market development for Cambro , at the recent Hotelex Exhibition in Shanghai . Huntington Beach , California-based Cambro has been a leading producer of plastic products for the foodservice industry for the past 55 years and continues to grow around the world . |
FLIP . TO DELIVERS RESULTS TO NYC HOTEL
CKI SOLUTIONS TO SUPPLY SERTA , ROSEWOOD
WMF STRENGTHENS COFFEE MACHINE BUSINESS
Flip . to aims to leverage social media to turn guests into a hotel ’ s brand advocates , earning the hotel more booked room nights . On The Ave Hotel in New York City had nearly 200 people sign up to become potential future guests in its first two months using the program . Moreover , On The Ave was able to log 117 booked room nights in those first two months , equating to a return on investment of 66 times . Some 7,800 unique visitors were linked to the hotel ’ s website by Flip . to — a traffic boost of more than 100 unique visitors daily — and more than a quarter of all the hotel ’ s guests participated in Flip . to in some form .
Cadence Keen Innovations Inc . ( d / b / a CKI Solutions ) has been chosen as the sole supplier of encasement products by both Serta Contract and Rosewood Hotels & Resorts . CKI Solutions was selected to be Serta ’ s sole supplier of bed bug-proof mattress and box spring encasements in a national program that launched this past February . The company also was chosen as the sole supplier of mattress , pillow and box spring encasements for all 23 Rosewood Hotels & Resorts worldwide . The first property installed will be the Rosewood Hotel in Abu Dhabi , which will be opening late this year .
The WMF Group intends to acquire coffee machine provider CMA , one of the leading companies in the area of professional espresso portafilter machines . Founded in 1969 , the focus of CMA is the design , development , assembly and sale of traditional , semi-automatic coffee machines under the Astoria and Wega brands .
In 2011 , the unaudited total revenue for the group was approximately US $ 66.2 million (€ 50 million ). WMF AG is paying a purchase price of approximately US $ 46.3 million (€ 35 million ) for the coffee machine business based on an enterprise value on a debt-free basis .
60 HOTELS June 2012 www . hotelsmag . com