Luxury Hoteliers Magazine 4th Quarter 2019 | Page 45

WHAT SETS WORLD CINEMA APART FROM THE REST? CAN YOU SHARE YOUR STORY? Tommy Fatjo shares his vision for World Cinema, a market leader who is constantly innovating to deliver technology that is both personalized and seamless. Their strategy focuses on the guest and how to provide the experience they desire at the least amount of cost. In 2019 we are celebrating our 45th year of integrating best of breed technologies into hotels. During these past 45 years, we have built a sustainable and profitable business based on delivering reliable service under a least- cost operating strategy. This strategy yielded tremendous economies of scale through growth which has resulted in a deep foundation of capabilities to not only provide responsive support but also allows us to employ a core of innovative technologists and business people who integrate best of breed technologies and content to create opportunities and address challenges for our clients. We are entering a new chapter of growth by leveraging our legacy but expanding into new differentiated products that uniquely address the needs of luxury, ultra-luxury, casino, and international hospitality clients. Our greatest differentiator is our singular focus on property technologies and our financial and operating stability. World Cinema was a pure play “property technology” company long before “PropTech” was cool. We were founded the year before Microsoft, six years before our largest peer competitor, nine years before the Internet was launched, and over 20 years before DBS satellite TV was launched. WORLD CINEMA IS ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF DESIGN AND INNOVATION FOR IN-ROOM ENTERTAINMENT. CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT SOME OF YOUR KEY FEATURES? Our product delivers everything our competitors offer. The game on ESPN is the same whether it’s delivered from one source or another. We provide services delivered over the top (OTT) of the public Internet, casting from guest devices, and a variety of curated and specialty content which hotels can choose to integrate into our platform to help optimize the guest experience. ILHA 45