Stanford Hotels Corp. has launched GuestLink(TM), a first-of-its-kind in-room
service that lets guests easily connect all of their electronic gadgets and
devices to a 42-inch HDTV flat screen.
This state-of-the-art technology is the most
revolutionary in-room development to occur in five decades,
according to Clyde Guinn, senior vice president operations
for San Francisco-based Stanford Hotels Corp.
"Not since the late 1950s when televisions and air
conditioners were installed in hotels has an innovation come
along that so dramatically transforms the way guests will
spend time in their rooms," says Guinn.
This new GuestLink(TM) system will radically change the
amount of time spent as well as the ways people use their
hotel rooms, adds Guinn, whose company recently unveiled the
groundbreaking technology at its Hilton Washington Dulles
Airport Hotel.
Until now, hotel guests were hard-pressed to find
hard-wiring that would allow them to access from the comfort
of their rooms all of the games, music, business tools and
entertainment content they need for leisure pursuits and
business productivity.
"Guests can now plug their iPod, laptop computer, DVD,
camcorder, digital camera or Xbox directly into our
exclusive GuestLink panel and spend hours viewing images on
the super-sized screen or listening to audio on
surround-sound speakers," says Greg Langweg, general manager
of the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport Hotel, which
annually attracts thousands of tech savvy travelers from
around the globe.
"To my knowledge, this is the first working hotel in the
U.S. to incorporate such an advanced electronic connectivity
system into its rooms," says Langweg.
Manufactured for Stanford Hotels Corp. by Arizona-based
Communication Integrators, Inc., (CII) the built-in
GuestLink(TM) module system offers guests a variety of
options, including: charging mobile electronic devices;
accessing the Internet via high-speed wired network; and
viewing movies, photos and computer documents on the large
screen TV.
According to Communication Integrators' CEO J. Glynn
Gross, there are few plug-in systems like this currently
being used in residential or commercial applications
anywhere on the planet.
"CII's GuestLink(TM) enables Stanford to be way out ahead
of the curve on this technology," says Gross, whose company
late last year completed the technical installation in 155
new guest rooms added to the Hilton Washington Dulles
Airport property.
And for the first time in many decades, he says, the
hotel industry is leaping ahead of the public as an early
adopter and champion of an emerging technology.
Stanford's Guinn predicts that during the next five to
eight years, almost all new hotel rooms built or older ones
remodeled will include a sim
