Apply HN: Tailored events info for hotel guests
A value added service for hotels looking to provide an even greater customer experience.
The service classifies guests on booking into a hotel and provides them with a hotel-branded, customised pdf of events happening during their stay that may be of interest to them.
Using fairly simple classifiers ( work traveller, family, area of hotel ), the system grabs a selection of top 10 events, restaurants, activities from numerous, public APIs.
A pdf is produced that is branded and styled according to the hotels existing marketing and emailed in advance to the guests.
For example, a booking made for a hotel in Mayfair London suggests gallery viewings, auctions, Michelin starred restaurants. In trendy Shoreditch for a single traveller, the latest pop-ups, nightclubs and gigs.
Pricing is based per guest at a reasonable rate of around £0.50-1.00
You mentioned "hotel-branded". So is adoption dependent on getting interest from hotels first?
The key to making this work is the quality of the listings. It has to significantly better than a Google search of what is on locally. Unless you have some serious AI this will need to be done manually by a highly skilled team. Do the economics work when you need lots of expensive labour?
Do you know how homogeneous the interests hotel guests are by location? If they aren't homogeneous then it will be very hard to create a list of interest to more than a minority of guests.