While sat on a sun bed on holiday I was looking for some information on the area around our hotel. I simply wanted somewhere to grab a bottle of wine to drink in the room and save a bit of money.
This exercise was annoyingly difficult. I ended up abandoning searching and just using Google Maps and hoping local shops had put themselves on it. When I realised they hadn’t I resorted to street view and finally found a corner shop.
This made me think why don’t hotels create apps that people can use prior to, during and after their visit. I initially thought these could be apps that simply offer information about the local area, hotel amenities and contact details, etc.
But why stop there? Why not have this as somewhere to book your stay, reserve a table for dinner, request more shampoo?
You could also go further. An app as a room key, as a way to order drinks to your lounger on the beach, as a way to alert people to things such as happy hour starting, unsuspecting issues like power cuts and more.
There is so much you could do. I’m looking forward to heading to a hotel soon and seeing this is action.