Delta’s high-tech rooms first for chain
Delta hotels have gone high-tech to meet the demand from customers interested in staying connected with family and friends.
Delta decided to standardize a new guest room design, called Moderoom. The first property to undergo a transformation with the tech-focused new design is the Delta Calgary South Hotel.
The $3.25-million renovation is nearing completion of 127 guest rooms in its atrium building to provide spaces that are modern, adaptable and laden with technology features.
“The renovation is an important evolution for the hotel,” says Marc Rheaume, vice-president of Hospitality Inns and general manager of the hotel. “Today’s travellers expect a different experience than travellers in years past, able to work or stay connected with friends and families no matter where they are.”
Launched in 1962 with a 62-room inn in Richmond, B.C., Delta Hotels and Resorts has become Canada’s leading first-class hotel management company with a portfolio of 46 city, airport and resort properties employing more than 7,000 people across the country.
On my tour with Rheaume of the south Calgary hotel, I noticed little touches such as conveniently positioned shelving and hooks, pinpoint reading lights in the headboards, heated bathroom floors, and custom-designed wardrobes, leaving plenty of room for guest belongings while allowing for more space in the units.
The big feature has to be Moderoom’s bedside plugins for smartphones and Smart Desk, a fully wired, multipurpose area that provides guests with a clutterfree space, built-in power and a connectivity dock that easily links laptop and mobile devices to the flatscreen high-definition TV.
Hospitality Inns is a Calgary-based, familyowned company that began more than 40 years ago and continues to own and operate Delta Calgary South Hotel under a franchise agreement. In its Atrium and Tower buildings it has a total of 252 guest rooms, restaurant, meeting and banqueting rooms and two indoor pools and is served by a staff of 150.
Rheaume has worked with Hospitality Inns for all of his 32 years in the business.
The company now has just one property in Calgary but owns land in Dawson Creek, which it is considering for another hotel.
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