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Hotel guests are re-charging their batteries.
Cetis hotel phones with built-in USB charging ports keep guests connected.
Help your guests re-charge smart devices inside the guest room with Teledex E Series USB phones, or USB Series universal charging stations. USB charging ports are conveniently located for guests to charge devices from either side of the nightstand or desk. Click here to explore solutions, and here to request a quotation.
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Cetis offers three major brands that provide the best quality, value, service, and selection in hotel phones, since 1982, with more than 30 million telephones installed globally, Teledex, TeleMatrix, and Scitec are trusted among all major hotel franchise corporations. Choose from 14 design family options, including 4 VoIP product lines designed to work in any application. Cetis has the perfect phone to fit your hotels aesthetic and budget. Click here to browse designs, here to request a consultation, or here to request a quotation.
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Give your guests the features they expect from a room phone.
Upgrading your hotel phones will positively impact your guests experience, by providing the features they expect, creates an enjoyable atmosphere knowing they have direct access to all their needs conveniently supplied at their fingertips, this translates into an almost guaranteed positive review. From traditional guest service keys, to patented OneTouch voice mail retrieval, and built-in USB guest smart device charging ports, Cetis offers a wide range of connection possibilities. Click here to request a phone quotation, or here to arrange a consultation.
Teledex Nugget Series.
Designed for tight spaces and tighter budgets.
Teledex Nugget Series designed for tight spaces and tighter budgets. Its classic design, and rugged durability in a small footprint that makes a large impact. A quality hotel phone that leaves extra room on the nightstand and fits any budget. Click here to request a quotation, or here to arrange a consultation.
Hotel-Online News
The WiFi-Free Hotel Restaurant
By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.hotelmogel.com)
This is not about ‘free WiFi’ but by placing the first word last it turns the concept on its head. The proposed idea here may seem a bit counterintuitive because a primary responsibility of modern hotels is to provide for our guests, with internet access being a clear necessity like heating and running water.
However, those damn devices occupy so much of our time these days that they can affect covers and turns at a restaurant, particularly one that’s quite busy and looking for opportunities to maximize revenues without initiating a large-scale expansion.
Having free and available WiFi in a dining outlet is essentially inviting patrons to glue themselves to their screens instead of focusing on the meal at hand. This delays menu browsing which in turn affects how fast customers order as well as their appreciation for what’s ultimately selected. Moreover, because a device competes for attention with the server, it will unconsciously deter guests from understanding the full value of a menu item based off of the in-person conveyance of said dishes or drinks. This can result in such behaviors as no pre-meal cocktails or aperitifs, and fewer appetizers or desserts ordered, not to mention that such patrons will consume more time per table overall.
Given these deleterious outcomes, there’s a strong case to be made for purposefully not setting up an internet portal for paying customers, with some places even going so far as to strategically position their restaurants so it is out of range of the regular lobby WiFi range or in an area with weak 4G/LTE signal.
As concurrent trend taking place in downtown urban centers, many cafés (mainly independents) are banning laptops on their premises because the standard behavior here is to order a coffee then occupy a seat for well over an hour when that spot could instead rotate through several other paying customers who aren’t looking for a free offsite workspace.
To point out the contrary argument to all this, many restaurants intentionally offer ample WiFi because that’s part of the environment they are trying to create. Such outlets are typically borderline busy during peak and half-empty at every other time slot. In these cases, allowing patrons to take their time is perfectly acceptable because there’s no rush to accommodate another party. Click here to read the entire article at Hotel-Online.
This is not about ‘free WiFi’ but by placing the first word last it turns the concept on its head. The proposed idea here may seem a bit counterintuitive because a primary responsibility of modern hotels is to provide for our guests, with internet access being a clear necessity like heating and running water.
However, those damn devices occupy so much of our time these days that they can affect covers and turns at a restaurant, particularly one that’s quite busy and looking for opportunities to maximize revenues without initiating a large-scale expansion.
Having free and available WiFi in a dining outlet is essentially inviting patrons to glue themselves to their screens instead of focusing on the meal at hand. This delays menu browsing which in turn affects how fast customers order as well as their appreciation for what’s ultimately selected. Moreover, because a device competes for attention with the server, it will unconsciously deter guests from understanding the full value of a menu item based off of the in-person conveyance of said dishes or drinks. This can result in such behaviors as no pre-meal cocktails or aperitifs, and fewer appetizers or desserts ordered, not to mention that such patrons will consume more time per table overall.
Given these deleterious outcomes, there’s a strong case to be made for purposefully not setting up an internet portal for paying customers, with some places even going so far as to strategically position their restaurants so it is out of range of the regular lobby WiFi range or in an area with weak 4G/LTE signal.
As concurrent trend taking place in downtown urban centers, many cafés (mainly independents) are banning laptops on their premises because the standard behavior here is to order a coffee then occupy a seat for well over an hour when that spot could instead rotate through several other paying customers who aren’t looking for a free offsite workspace.
To point out the contrary argument to all this, many restaurants intentionally offer ample WiFi because that’s part of the environment they are trying to create. Such outlets are typically borderline busy during peak and half-empty at every other time slot. In these cases, allowing patrons to take their time is perfectly acceptable because there’s no rush to accommodate another party. Click here to read the entire article at Hotel-Online.
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Did you know that you can receive online assistance with product, pricing, support of Cetis hotel phones? The Cetis Account Manager team is here to help you with any hotel phone-related questions that you may have – before, during, or after your purchase. You may find the LiveChat feature on the lower right side of our Cetis, Teledex, TeleMatrix, and Scitec websites. We look forward to chatting with you!
