Articles tagged “amenities”

Gaylord Hotels Portfolio rolled out a new technology across all of its properties aimed to enhance the guest experience by giving them more control and more choices during their stay.

Singapore Airlines has built a reputation on offering a comfortable long-haul flying experience and adding high-speed connections to the mix fits in with today's trends for the onboard services passengers value most.

JetBlue and Virgin America are certainly blazing trails on brand partnerships to support connectivity. The question is: will other airlines follow in this new frontier or just circle their wagons.

Coming up with fresh ideas in aviation takes guts. Sometimes your guts are cut out, and handed back to you on a nicely compartmentalized in-flight meal tray. But there's no stopping some people.

This is the natural next step for Virgin America, ViaSat, and Netflix and the perfect complement to JetBlue's Amazon Prime offering.

The thinking behind this is that tap-tap and connect is easier for passengers—and more intuitive to mobile-device users—than loading a portal and entering information to connect through a browser. There's something to that. The beacon ‘reminders’ to use the connection, however, will have to be designed carefully so they don’t annoy.

The thousands of screens on aircraft, either built-in or brought onboard, offer advertisers and brand partners many ways to reach consumers. With connectivity and advanced IFE systems gathering user data, the skies offer limitless possibilities for targeted campaigns and direct sales.

Most people don't go on a luxury cruise to sit around refreshing Twitter. But cruisers shouldn't have to pay a fortune if they want to.

Mid-range hotels are taking a page out of the airline industry's book, unbundling amenities and allowing customers to only pay for the products and services they actually want. Could this "pick and pay" tactic change the way budget hotels do business?