As trends evolve around the post-covid world, many hotels are adapting to the latest customer expectations, ideas, and design features that travellers of the 21st century are drawn to.
1. Increasing Fees
Additional charges are increasingly being added to travellers' stays to cover everything from resort fees to housekeeping.
2. Lobbies as Social Hubs
Colourful seating, free internet service and chic cocktail and coffee bars are turning once-sterile hotel lobbies into social areas.
3. No More Bathtubs
Many newly built hotels are opting out of installing bathtubs and offering showers only.
4. Pump Dispensers
Hotels are increasingly doing away with miniature bottles of shampoo and moisturiser in favour of pump dispensers. This helps to decrease plastic waste and reduces a hotel's carbon footprint.
5. Electronic Check-In
Fully electronic check-in technology is slowly becoming mainstream. Some hotels send regular guests pre-programmed keycards to be activated with a text code on the day of check-in.
6. Local Options
Many hotels are embracing the trend of eating locally-produced food by directing guests to local markets and eateries and promoting local producers.
