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October 25, 2005
Internet access in hotel rooms becoming standard globally
Readers of top US travel magazine Travel + Leisure have voted The Peninsula Bangkok the “World’s Best Business Hotel”.
The Peninsula Bangkok provides a full range of business amenities and meeting facilities to enable guests to get down to the business at hand. Complimentary high speed internet access is one such amenity.
North American hotels were quicker to offer broadband services, and represent approximately two-thirds of total properties connected worldwide. Now the rest of the world's hospitality properties are moving to offer broadband. Some of the best hotels such as the Peninsula of Bangkok located in Asia now are offering such Internet access for no additional charge.
According to the "2004 Lodging Survey" from the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA), Internet connectivity has rapidly become a carte blanche amenity in guest rooms across the US. The percentage of hotels offering high-speed Internet connectivity in guest rooms jumped from 23% in 2001 to 50% in 2004. In higher-priced rooms the percentage is even higher.
Posted by admin at October 25, 2005 06:33 AM