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Innovations & Technologies The right message, at From the entrance to the room, Philips offers the right XXX A key to developing a new profit centre lies in creating a hotel information eco-system in which your guests are delivered the right message at the right time, prompting them to action. Whether it's a dish of the day at lunchtime, this week’s feature cocktail in the bar, spa promotions or merchandising or sell-on ideas with sister establishments, the choices are endless. THE RIGHT MESSAGE – AT THE RIGHT TIME Indeed, from the entrance to the hotel room, Philips offers professional display solutions that cover all hotel areas and healthcare facilities, along with practical and creative signage solutions. Smart content management solutions are combined with easy remote control features to offer your guests a “total hospitality experience”. Available on Philips EasySuite hospitality TVs, SmartInfo is an information delivery system that works independently without an internet connection. You can choose from a selection of templates to easily create interactive pages, Philips Professional Display Solutions is the only supplier of hospitality TVs that runs an organization that focuses on developing, designing and manufacturing TVs that are targeted at hospitality facilities allowing you totally customise information for your guests. It works in both ‘offline mode’ for info that is stored in the TV and ‘online mode’ so that it can link to the hotel website or server. Philips TVs today offer unique features that include cloud-based applications, while focusing on convenience and total cost of ownership. Being entirely cloud-based, you will never have to upgrade a TV in a room again. WITH SMARTINSTALL, HOTELIERS CAN SAVE SERIOUS MONEY SmartInstall allows hoteliers to set up and maintain selected Philips Hotel TVs remotely with little effort. Hoteliers can load software upgrades and update SmartInfo pages via an easy to use PC tool without entering guest rooms. Channel mapping can also be carried out without disturbing guests. APPS – AN EXCITING NEW PROFIT CENTRE Give your guests a wealth of TV-based Apps to use during their stay - apps that are specifically tailored for hospitality use. 18 Hotel & Tourism SMARTreport / Worldwide Edition N°24 / November 2014 - February 2015
SMARTreport commercial content the right time solutions for all your facilities PARTNERS’ SEMINAR BRINGS NEW SOLUTIONS TO MARKET The Philips Partners’ Seminar, this year in Barcelona, brought together integrators and other partners from around Europe with the TP Vision hospitality team. For the first time, the media were also present, to gain new insights into the solutions on offer. Every business likes to generate extra cash. AppRevenue helps you generate extra cash through revenue sharing & kickbacks from selected commercial apps. AppRevenue thus offers an easy alternative to generating revenues from VOD apps or other services without a system. It helps you finance your bandwidth costs, and the kick back fee goes directly into your hotel or facility’s bank account. BROAD, SPECIFIC HOSPITALITY RANGE Four ranges of Philips hospitality TVs reflect TP Vision’s experience, gained from 30 years of hospitality industry leadership. These innovative Philips hospitality TVs are built around control and connectivity features and low total cost of ownership. Philips hospitality TVs feature the latest in connectivity allowing integration of guests’ smart devices, connection to the internet and hotel information services as well as to hotel networks.Chris Sluys, General Manager Business Unit Hospitality TV and Signage, TP Vision, says the latest line-up of Philips Studio, Philips EasySuite, Philips MediaSuite and Philips Signature reinforces the company’s claim to industry leadership: “Philips Professional Display Solutions is the only supplier of hospitality TVs that runs an organization that focuses on developing, designing and manufacturing TVs that are targeted at hospitality facilities. This helps us to get a deep understanding of our customers’ needs.” Smart content management solutions are combined with easy remote control features to offer your guests a 'total hospitality experience'. The new portfolio spans a large choice of slim and sustainable hospitality TVs with different looks and screen sizes. They suit any hotel from budget hostels to design hotels and luxury hotels, from small, familyowned guesthouses to large international chains, and also from cruise ships over hospitals to elderly homes. Philips Professional Display Solutions, supplier of Philips hospitality TVs, is a trusted partner delivering to the largest international chains and the smallest hotels via the industry’s leading system integrators. The new portfolio reflects the experience and knowledge gained from 30 years of operations as an industry leader. CONTACT Philips Hospitality TV Prins Bernhardplein, 200, 1097 JB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Phone +31 20 460 4610 hospitalitytv@tpvision.com www.philips.com/hospitalitytv www.cleverhotel.org Hotel & Tourism SMARTreport / Worldwide Edition N°24 / November 2014 - February 2015 19
