Hoteliers Success Stories!

In the late 1990s and early part of the new century, hotels invested in high-speed Internet access as more guests grew to depend on the Web for basic work and life functions. Yet while Internet usage grew in both homes and offices, jacks-in-the-wall usage has stalled at about 16 percent of business travelers. Virtually no leisure travelers carry laptops to their vacation destinations. (Are you kidding? With kids, diving gear, golf clubs or skis in tow?)

Now far-sighted hoteliers are seeking efficient, effective ways to leverage their investment in HSIA and meet their guests’ demands for in-room and common-area Web computers. From Aruba to Minnesota to Wisconsin to New York, Florida and Los Angeles, Wired4FUN! is helping hoteliers provide a basic guest need and in the process building a new bond with their guests.

Hotels with Wired4FUN! installations, available in both wired and wireless configurations, are experiencing repeat business, thus strengthening their bottom lines. Facilities with the in-room Wired4FUN! Web service find that their guests consistently stay on-line nearly three hours surfing the net, catching up with work, emailing friends and family or paying bills. The also use the service to play games, DVDs and CDs as well, thus making the room feel like their own comfortable home. Or guests stop by the lobby to quickly send or receive email on the run.

Conference and convention hotels use Wired4FUN! Internet Bar packages to outfit common areas with multiple Web computers during peak business periods. They are seeing conference attendees wait in line during breaks and lunch to use the fast, easy and secure service to stay on top of work throughout the day.

One of our hotel customers in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, says about Wired4FUN!, “It’s the next Wonder Bed. And I’ve already got it!”