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Digital media challenges hoteliers.(Technology: HOTEL COMMUNICATIONS)(Brief Article)

By Adams, Bruce
Publication: Hotel & Motel Management
Date: Monday, April 18 2005

The mainstreaming of digital media might represent hoteliers' next great challenge.

As baby-boomer business travelers get displaced by Gen Xers and younger travelers who grew up in the digital age, hotels want to be able to meet their expectations. Those who travel with portable media devices that contain pictures of loved ones, recorded TV shows, videos or MP3 players and Ipods will be sorely disappointed when they arrive at their hotel rooms.

"They will want to know why they can't plug their [audiovisual] output into an input and watch their digital media

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