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Dog Portraits, Book Clubs And Free Stuff From IHG Hotels: 13 Winter Hospitality Updates
11.12.2023 - 08:11 / forbes.com
Winter brings plenty of holiday travel experiences, stocking stuffer ideas and travel contests to get you going, but there is other news in hospitality. These hotels and hospitality groups are adding promotions, upgrading their offerings and redesigning their look to encourage future bookings in 2024. Here’s what you need to know to get the year off to a great start.
This new program, called Borrowed by Hotel Indigo, allows guests, as well as local IHG One Rewards members, to borrow perks from their neighborhood Hotel Indigo. This includes common household items like coffee, tea, sugar and olive oil. A hotel-designed survey found that 59% of people have never asked a neighbor to borrow anything. This new campaign seeks to change that by creating a first-ever hotel borrowing program that is not just for guests. You don’t even have to return what you borrow, according to the hotel brand.
Fiji’s Sofitel Resort & Spa recently completed a $50 million renovation that refreshed all of the guest rooms and public areas with a more luxurious look. The next stage for the hotel is adding Vatu Talei “The Jewel,” a $100 million development behind the resort, slated to open in 2026. The property added 52 new Family Rooms with one queen bed and a pair of bunk beds. There is also a new restaurant by the recently extended Waitui Beach Club, a new teens zone, night club, new salon and a family beach club area.
Already known for its Navigators (what the brand calls its roving lobby concierges), the Marriott Bonvoy-backed Renaissance Hotels name is adding new virtual artificial intelligence concierges. Called RENAI By Renaissance (said as “ren-AY” and standing for Renaissance artificial intelligence), the service gives guests to digital access to the latest and greatest happenings in the neighborhood. Human and artificial intelligence goes into the recommendations it provides, but it also leans into Chat GPT and open-source outlets to give ideas. Available at a handful of hotels in the U.S., it will be rolled out to nearly two dozen hotels worldwide by spring with more to come.
In a partnership with Reese’s Book Club and as part of its Gatherings by Sheraton program of weekly events, select Sheraton Hotels around the world will see new library-inspired sitting areas added to the lobby. Guests can gather with other readers and authors to discuss different books. It will also be used for the new “Beyond the Page” moderated speaker series with invited authors appearing at different pop-up events.
There will be do-it-yourself workshops to learn more about book embossing and engraving, book swap programs and literary-themed trivia. There is also a partnership with BookTokers to host BookTok meetups with Reese’s Book Club for
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