X-Room is featured at BBC World on 22 January 2008

X-Room is featured at BBC World Fast Track Show on January 22, 2008. X-Room is experimental guestroom at the University of Delaware Courtyard by Marriott, Newark, DE. This room is used as a testing ground for new technologies in the hospitality industry.

KEY FACTS: The X-Room is based on the orignal Guestroom 2010 concept, created by the HFTP - Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals, an international association with 4,600 members worldwide.

The X-room is a fully-operational hotel guestroom at the Courtyard by Marriott Newark - University of Delaware, located in Newark, DE.

The hotel is owned by the University of Delaware and managed by Shaner Hotels, who have played a major role in bringing a teaching hotel to campus, and in the development of the X-Room.

"Our X-room was inspired by the Guestroom 2010 project, which originated with the Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals organization," said Dr. Cihan Cobanoglu. "However, the key difference is that in our X-room, actual guests and staff members get to use these new systems. Our goal is to determine the acceptance levels of these technologies, and the impact they make on guest satisfaction and staff efficiency."

For more information on the X-Room: http://www.experimentalguestroom.com
For more information about University of Delaware:
http://www.udel.edu
For more information about HRIM:
http://www.hrim.udel.edu
For more information about Dr. Cihan Cobanoglu, X-Room Manager
http://www.cihan.org
For more information on HFTP: http://www.hftp.org
For more information on Shaner: http://www.ShanerCorp.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• HFTP
• Hotel
• Guestroom
• 2010
• Future
• Technology
• Shaner
• X-Room
• University
• Delaware
• Marriott
• UD
• Cihan
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[skaterbora]

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[macctosh]

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[JLSCreativeSolutions]

JLS Creative Solutions invites you to view the original video footage we shot in November 2007 and featured by the BBC for this feature.

Thanks to Dr. Cihan Cobanoglu for making the BBC video feature available.