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High-tech Hotels: A Hometown Newspaper—Anywhere
Source: Executive Travel SkyGuide
Walk through any hotel corridor at 6 a.m. and every room will have a USA Today or Wall Street Journal on its threshold. Travelers depend on reading the newspaper, but because many are not interested in local news, they settle for national news publications.
Now some hotels chains like InterContinental, as well as select Sheraton, Hilton, Radisson SAS, and Ritz-Carlton properties, are offering guests their preferred newspaper (from their home-base or anywhere of interest)—no matter where they are in the world. The paper is a black-and-white broadsheet printout resembling a photocopy, which is stapled and includes the front and business sections.
The newspapers are provided through NewspaperDirect, which prints digitally-imaged full-format newspapers (including ads). More than 150 newspaper titles are offered, everything from the New York Times to Le Monde. The service is of particular interest to international business travelers, who can keep up with what's happening at home, even when they are around the globe.
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