Hotels of the Future Offer Clues for the Future of Vacation Rentals
It is a fact of life that travelers gradually come to expect to receive a lot of the same amenities that they get in luxury hotels in the luxury vacation rentals they stay in. We have already seen this happen in the case of Wi-Fi and high speed internet access. A few years ago, it was a rarity, even in hotels. Now it is expected in vacation rentals as well as hotels and motels. With this in mind, it is interesting for the vacation rental owner to read an article in CNNMoney.com by Dave Ellis, who says, “From self check-in to iPod docks to rooms that literally take your temperature, your next hotel stay could be light years ahead of expectations.� The full article is available here.
Some of the coming innovations in hotels described in the article are too high-tech for vacation rentals, such as iris scans for entry rather than a card system, a �pure room� cleaning system, and “health monitoring rooms�. However, others are not. An expert is quoted as saying that all the major hotel chains will have flat screen TVs in place in the next few years. Therefore, any vacation rental owner who is purchasing a new TV should consider making the switch to a flat screen rather spend money on a technology that is out of date. Another innovation that is already affordable is iPod docks for guests.
