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What Women Business Travellers Expect As Hotel Guests

Twenty-five years or so ago, when i started travelling on business, there have been few other women on those day air commutes. Today women represent nearly 50% of business travellers, and hotels around the globe making the effort to evaluate which could keep women happy. It is really an important question because women are nearly doubly as loyal to an inn as men. Said one senior executive who logs 70 - 80 room nights 12 months, "When I've found an accommodation which make me feel welcome and safe, I'll return repeatedly - even though these are a tad bit more expensive and a little further from my meeting place."

Just what exactly do women want?

Apologizing upfront for only to be able to answer this question with regards to hotel stays, allow me to share their/our top desires... if all of the business necessities (fax, internet connectivity space and/or WiFi, meeting rooms, entry to printing, business newspapers delivered to the space, etc.) are actually met.

1) Top notch security. Women like the idea of experiencing a floor that will simply be reached which has a key card; this doesn't happen need to be an all-female floor, but non-residents should not be capable to get access. Beneath the security heading, women include having well-lit, monitored parking garages with intercoms, valet parking and Escorts to parking lots. Many hotels get their bell staff escort women to their rooms late into the evening. The front desk staff might help by giving women rooms at the elevators so they do not have to walk down long, isolated hallways, especially ones that turn corners - and keeping these room numbers confidential at check-in. It can be as fundamental as pointing towards the room number, as an alternative to saying it aloud.

2) Clean, fresh smelling rooms. Most hotels have this place well in hand, but hotels setting up a special effort to appeal to women add woman's magazines, real flowers and pot pourri for your bathroom when the room consists. Cupboards are stocked with lots of hangers, including skirt and camisole hangers and padded ones, too. "Chick flicks" get incorporated into their movie line-up; one hotel chain also provides yoga and guided visualization options.

3) Inviting bathrooms. Women expect bathrooms to be pristine. They are a lot more particular than men relating to this. This means no errant hairs on to the floor (confirm the corners, because women do), no grit within the tub or smudges on the mirrors. Many hotels start to put in curved shower curtain rails so the shower curtains can be kept far from the body (and they are unlikely to develop mold). And also tastefully appointed, there must be good light (for donning make-up application), the full length mirror about the door, outlets which will have a styling curler, as well as a good quality hair dryer using a cord of sufficient length permitting styling while watching mirror. Imperative that you men and women: The shower must have enough pressure to get rid of hair conditioner. It is extremely frustrating (rather than a powerful way to start the morning) trying to wash long hair in the event the hotel has installed a water miser! Hotelier hint: Cleaning staff must be expected to leave any additional towels inside the bathroom should there be just one female guest. Women need one towel for hair, one for their body, another for his or her hands when putting on make-up... you will get the image, I know.

4) Attractive amenities. Therefore milled soaps within the bathroom, shampoos and conditioners that do not have a sports scent, thicker towels, generously proportioned and fluffy bathrobes. Some hotels have introduced a spa line because of their female guests into a very positive reception.

5) Locked cupboard "mini bars". Women travellers reveal that they would like a mini bar equivalent stocked such necessities as pantyhose (queen size and regular), tampons, panty liners - items that you cannot just run out and pick-up advertisements by connecting out, or need unexpectedly.

6) Sports Centres. As well as having well-lit, well-secured gym facilities, some hotels will provide secure jogging tracks. Furthermore women want to feel safe after they make use of the gym, they wish to feel welcome. This means ensuring the power is kept clean and well-stocked with towels, cool water, Kleenex and anti-bacterial spray for the machine handles. In addition, it means including exercise balls, floor mats and lighter free weights inside the equipment line-up.

7) Food and Finer Fare. Women prefer bistro or cafe style restaurants to noisy sports bars; in addition they enjoy lighter fare from which to choose if they are dining within the restaurant or ordering room-service. When it comes to actual dining experience, women can appear uncomfortable being reminded of their single diner status. "Will anyone be joining you for dinner?" provides improvement over "Eating alone?" Being seated against a wall may also make women feel more comfortable when dining alone - just like a little bit more attention from the wait staff. One idea is for hotels to determine a single diner's website where guests will make arrangements to dine with someone else. Or perhaps must single diners if they would like to be accompanied by someone.

8) Lastly: To become treated courteously and professionally. Hint to Hoteliers: Women within their 40's contain the highest expectations for hotel service delivery - yet would be the most likely to obtain second-rate service from hotel staff (company, this considers that they can register more complaints since they're pickier!). Suggest your employees pay a little extra awareness of this group as they are less price-sensitive and more likely to refer your house to colleagues.