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Digital Hotels.(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Byline: Alexandra A. Seno
Forget fruit baskets. Now, the only apples luxury Asian hoteliers want to talk about are the iPod kind. Hong Kong's five-star Le Meridien Cyberport loans the digital music players to guests working out in the gym. And it's just one of the chains now using gadget-happy Asia as a test bed to redefine the first-class hotel as a digital experience.
The five-star Langham Place Hotel opened its doors this summer in Hong Kong's Mongkok district, adorned with Brazilian sandstone and Italian marble. But $4.5 million--one third of the cost of building the 665-room hotel--went into technology. High-speed Internet connections are everywhere, even inside elevators. Cordless room phones work throughout the hotel, and have colored touch screens for sending e-mail. E-mail recipients can respond by voice, at no cost, using Internet voice technology.
The phone's screen can also be programmed to display images of family or pets and phone numbers ...
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