What are the technology trends in hotel meetings and events?

JUAN ANTONIO CABALLERO, director de Ingeniería de NH HOTEL GROUP

 

The new technologies allow us to be more flexible and avoid the annoying cables on the floor, gutters, screens located on trunks.... For example, in the recent reform of one of our hotels has been incorporated a audio-visual system on structured cabling, which converts any network point into a possible audio or video input or output. In addition, the interaction of customers with the installation is extremely simple when configuring the audiovisuals according to their needs.

In some salons we are incorporating systems to share the content of a computer, tablet or mobile wirelessly with the projector, with all the image and sound quality, and without cables, adapters or converters.

To boost productivity, develop creativity and facilitate interaction in business meetings, there are virtual collaboration equipment that allow people working in different locations to do so in a single space, as if they were in the same room.

For high-impact events, the latest is the three-dimensional holographic technology, with a network of installations in different locations that allow interconnecting the venues, or that a person gives the same message in all of them at the same time simulating to be really in each of the rooms, all in an extraordinarily real way.

Así happened recently with the press conference that a hotel of the companyñí a offered in Madrid with the “presence” of the actor Hugh Jackman, when in reality he was in Berlín.

They are also expanding the use of videowalls of different sizes, digital signage for halls or large format displays and screens to advertise events, direct the audience to the event;to announce events, direct customers and reproduce corporate content, sometimes with highly innovative elements integrated into the design, as is the case with the multimedia mirrors.