Five teams of entrepreneurs have been awarded $900,000 combined to help the hospitality, entertainment and travel industries recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Some amazing innovations are being introduced in Las Vegas. It’s all part of a UNLV global-competition to find the best ideas and products to help the valley rebound from COVID-19. We have a look at some of the great ideas coming out of this contest.
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Owners and operators will need to offer differentiated services and flexibility to compete in a post-pandemic world where there will be increased competition for corporate tenants. It is still too early to tell whether other large-branded operating platforms will evolve and whether properties will no longer be assets but instead could serve as inputs and components of other operating businesses.
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Technology could lead the way to an improved, safer and healthier work and hospitality environment in a post-COVID world.
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As a freshman at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Management, Micah Green was required to spend a day as a room attendant to pass a course called “Introduction to Hotel Operations.” Mr. Green recalls his shift cleaning fourteen hotel rooms as one of the most physically grueling experiences of his life.
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Robots that delivered a burger and fries a few years ago were a high-tech gimmick that gave hotel guests a good laugh. Now, some manufacturers suggest these machines could help guests stay safe during a global pandemic.
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A robot that is part of the Fairfield Inn is helping keep guests and employees safe.
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When the Hôtel Monville in Montreal opened in 2018, it was one of the first hotels in Canada that offered a truly contactless visitor experience.
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They say knowledge is power, but the sheer number of CRE technologies that arrive daily can create information paralysis. There are various options for every aspect of the built environment and business case, some bordering on science fiction. With the rapid influx of new products, today’s organization must maintain a culture of continuous change and improvement.
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When the LODGING team first met Maidbot founder and CEO Micah Green in 2016, his company was a small robotics startup in the midst of launching a pilot program around its guestroom-cleaning robots. Now, with plans to integrate 100 working units into hotels all over the country by the end of the year, Green’s focus is broader, and he’s starting to see exactly how the technology pioneered by Maidbot could change the hotel industry at large.
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