Welcome to the Hotel Multimedia

March 06, 2008

Lindner Hotels and Resorts are attracting many guests with their extensive infotainment offer at one low package price. T-Systems is setting the system up for the chain, one hotel at a time. At CeBIT, the two companies decided to add seven new locations to the project, including – together with Hagenbeck – the first wild animal park-themed hotel in the world located in Hamburg.
It’s always the same: The hotels present a consistent image to their guests by featuring identical multimedia offers. For example, the Lindner Info Channel keeps guest informed in their native language about the current leisure activities and wellness offers at the hotel as well as those at other Lindner locations. The information offer also includes tips on local sights, restaurants and events. In addition to an extensive TV offer, frazzled business travelers can choose from over 50 videos in crystal-clear quality. Hotel guests are able to pause the video whenever they wish, spend some time surfing the net on their laptop and then start the movie again right where they left off. Traditional pay-TV offers pale in comparison to genuine video on-demand, where guests can decide when the movie starts.
Hot spots everywhere
As opposed to hotels of a similar standard, these hotels have reasonably priced hot spots everywhere so that guests can go online. Instead of paying the usual high price per hour for Internet access, guests can choose from three different rate offers and book their connection for a day, a week or a month. They are then given a identification number that they use to log on to the multimedia system. This number remains valid for the duration booked. Watch the video to learn more about the infotainment solution.

Tags: Fraunhofer Institut, IPTV, InHaus2, Lindner, hot spot, hotel, info channel, infotainment, multimedia, video conference, video-on-demand