Different luxury hotels have adapted to giving their guests a tech-detox experience to enhance leisure trips to be even more relaxing.
Here are some examples, how hotels manage to encourage their guests to have a digital detox experience:
The Mandarin Oriental New York partners with the Mayo Clinic for a wellness program. When visitors leave their phones with the hotel, they are treated to classes such as mindful journaling, yoga and colouring. The hotel boasts “designated rejuvenation areas” with a comfortable smell and atmosphere. In the meantime, guests’ smartphones get cleaned and polished. (Travel and Leisure, 2018)
At The Four Seasons Costa Rica, visitors have the choice to hand over their phones to be stored in the hotel. If guests then are able to leave the phone for a minimum of 24 hours, they get rewarded with a new phone case.(Travel and Leisure, 2018)
Wyndham Hotels in the US encourages families to reduce their screen time and enjoy holiday time together more conscious. The hotels offer a new “Reconnected” program which comes with a variety of diversion tactics meant to facilitate their digital detox.
Signed up guests get a modest discount of five percent for their stay, get offered to participate several creative in-room activities and receive an Instax camera to be able to capture valuable memories throughout the stay. In addition, a set of reading and activity materials from “The Nocturnals” series is offered to the guests. (Pursuitist, 2018)(Wyndham Hotels, 2018)
These are only three examples of how hotels try to implement an option of digital detoxing in their hotels. These show what it is worth for the hotel to give their guest this particular retreat. Not only the guests benefit through these advantages of trying out digital detoxing, but also hotels see benefits in those programs. Therefore, this is a clear opportunity for the hospitality industry!
https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/who-gets-to-unplug
https://pursuitist.com/wyndham-grand-hotels-launch-digital-detox-program/
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