Already valued at $1.2 trillion, the tourism and hospitality industry is poised to grow even further as the years’ pass.
Gone are the days when one had to physically approach a travel agent and wait till he made the bookings — now it all happens online, and at a very fast pace.
Remote Access Will Improve – We are already living in an era where we can open our hotel rooms from outside and can order room service without having to get out of bed.
This scenario will surely change to some extent if the Internet of Things (IoT) gets integrated with the internal circuitry of a room, among other things
So we may expect our room to be heated or cooled to just the perfect temperature at which we prefer them, even before we have entered it!
We might find that we get personalized messages from hotels we are likely to choose – offering us discount coupons as well!
– because of extremely accurate predictive modeling. This can radically change the customer satisfaction as well as the user experience of travelers around the world.
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AI Bots Will Become More Important! – A reality in certain hotel chains already,
AI chatbots for hospitality are more likely to play an important role in the coming years to do clerical work like changing or canceling reservations, verifying discount coupons, checking account balances, and more.
There might even be actual robots who play the role of concierge, giving detailed information where it is pertinent, ensuring that your room is clean, that your stay at the hotel is smooth and more. In Japan, the Henn na (or Weird) Hotel already has a robot concierges – and one of these robots is a dinosaur!
These are some of the ways in which digital transformation might end up impacting the hospitality industries in the years to come. The predictions made above might just hit the mark completely, seeing as how they’re already nascent realities.
But technology teaches us that there is, even more, to learn and to achieve than we may believe at a certain time. So let’s wait and see where exactly we will end up after the digital transformation of hospitality! One thing is for sure: it’s bound to get even more convenient!
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