Hotels.com partnered with a futurist from the Institute for Global Futures to do a study on how hotels will be in the future. Here’s a look at the results.
Fast forward to the year 2060 (add 43 years to your current age). Now imagine yourself walking into your hotel room.
Here are some of the things you might find find –
• Using face recognition to enter your room
• Hyper connectivity on every surface
• Interactive TV
• Bathrooms with smart toilets, mirrors with real-time news
• Neuro-enhanced aromas from interactive spa walls that sense stress and auto-generate a relaxing sleep experience
• Special towels with pollution wipe nano coatings
• Wireless temperature controls that adjust automatically
• Self-assembling and personalized bed and pillows based on neuro-feedback
• In room-personalized experiences like watching a holographic music concert.
From Hotel.com:
When travelers check into a hotel in 2060 they can expect it to be on Mars, to feature augmented reality, artificial intelligence, morphing beds, robotics, touchscreen everything, hyper connectivity and much more. Partnering with renowned futurist Dr James Canton of the Institute for Global Futures, Hotels.com is looking to the future to uncover how the travel and hotel experience will be different in a year, 25 years and as far ahead as 2060. The way we choose a destination, book a trip, travel there and the in-stay experience will be dramatically different in the future. These new forecasts see super-tech meet super-science and here is a snapshot of some of the stand-out trends:
Morphing hotels made to order
This is the next generation of made to order. Hotels which self-assemble and morph from one design to another based on consumer’s votes. These crowdsourced hotels will use nanotechnology and machines that can self-assemble environments, buildings or even entire physical worlds (the Real Jurassic Park?). This could all be possible in the next 20 years.3D Makers in every hotel room
Taking luggage on holiday will be a thing of the past. 3D Printers will transform the travel experience & the in room experience. 3D Makers will generate in real time items guests desire, such as new shoes, clothes or even computers & phones. 3D shopping will be available, where consumers download from the cloud, retail goods they want to design on demand.RoboButlers
These autonomous robots can be designed online before arrival and can be programmed with special talents, skills, languages and information to help make the hotel stay exceptional. They will do everything from greeting guests at the airport, to offering gourmet food service, room makeup, companionship, education, entertainment, business advice and concierge service.Neuro-Dreaming – choose your own dream
The definition of getting a good night’s sleep will change. A hotel bed will no longer just be place to enjoy a comfortable night’s sleep, as future travelers will be able to choose their own dreams before dozing off. Hotels will give guests access to neurotechnology to program their dreams and they can choose a dream theme to either relax, learn or enjoy. Romantic adventure or space exploration?
more at: hotels.com
