Hotel Intel | Analyzing Hospitality & Tourism Trends

Wimintra is fresh back from Thailand Tourism Forum 2018, where she presented HotelIntel's proprietary survey of what women travelers from all over world want hotels to do better. The video is posted online, and you really should watch it. It's amazing how many things hotels get wrong, which can be a big let down. In this episode, Wimintra and Stu cover some of those findings, like Bathrooms are a big issue that's often overlooked by hotel planners. According to the survey data, women want more privacy in their rooms, which stands in stark contrast to the trend of bathrooms with open floor plans, glass walls, no locks, and in some cases not even a door. So much for privacy. If your hotel is in a municipality with code restrictions that prohibit you from building a bathroom with quality lighting and electrical outlets, go the extra mile and prepare an alternative area for things like hair styling and makeup. Sharing space with the TV or standing in the foyer are not acceptable options. Be wary of using furnitu