STI COLLEGE

Tanay, Rizal

In Partial Fulfilment

Of the Requirements

In Entrepreneurship in Tourism and Hospitality

Submitted by:

Abueg, Mariah Camille

Buenviaje, Joebelle

Pillas, Kristel

Priña, Rachel
Tourism Trends

Bleisure Travel

Bleisure Travel is a growing tourism trend where people traveling for work or business
include some leisure time at their destination. These business-leisure trips can either be
preplanned, whereby clients schedule their vacation within the same period of a job-related
trip. Once the meetings, professional conferences, and other work engagements are over,
business travelers may decide to extend their stay and explore their destination

Online Travel Agency

In today’s generation, there is a comprehensive list of different travel agency platforms

and you can learn more about how travel agencies can contribute to increasing your bookings.
It is a change from off-line travel agencies to online travel agencies. It is a web-based
marketplace that allows consumers to research and book travel products and services,
including hotels, flights, cars, tours, cruises, activities, and more, directly with travel suppliers.

Every day, millions of travelers around the world use OTAs to plan leisure and business
travel. When customers search online for travel products or services, they often seek
information on websites of travel agencies instead of consulting individual company websites.
Therefore, it is wise to connect to travel agencies, so you are present and can be found through
their channels. OTAs provide access to your potential guests in locations and at volumes that
would be difficult for you to access through your marketing efforts. Additionally, OTAs provide
market insights and tools for targeting travelers, securing and processing bookings,
communicating with guests, and managing reviews

Growth of Contactless Payments

Contactless payments have been a staple when it comes to technology in tourism for
some time now, but the emergence of options like Google Pay and Apple Pay has helped to
take this to the next level, meaning customers do not even need to carry around a debit card or
credit card to pay for meals, hotel stays, transport, and other services. Allowing contactless
payments has enabled tourism companies to reduce friction and improve the speed of check-
ins and check-outs. It also means goods can be paid for swiftly, encouraging spontaneous
purchases. With coronavirus, contactless payments are in greater demand than ever, as staff
and customers often prefer to avoid handling cash

Hospitality Trends

Smart Trends

These hotels have easy access to the internet, an in-room workstation, business and
conference rooms, and other mini-office amenities. It includes leisure facilities for indoor sports
such as swimming pools where they can relax after the seminar or meetings. This can offer
guests better control of heating, air-conditioning, and room lighting through the use of their
mobile devices. Entertainment systems that can be turned on through voice command would
also be a good feature. In addition, Artificial Intelligence is valuable in smart hotels, identifying
the likely needs of guests and fine-tuning the environment and services to fit the guest’s needs
and preferences. It provides high-quality customer service and security

Virtual Reality Tours

Virtual reality ranks among the most exciting hospitality technology trends, providing
the means for potential hotel guests or restaurant diners to experience what their surroundings
will be like, all from the comfort of their own homes. This can be crucial for moving these
people from the planning stage to committing to a visit. Virtual tours/360 videos can help some
customers to better understand the facilities available. Offering this service also gives you a
clear edge over any rivals that are not yet capitalizing on this particular hospitality trend and
the web-based nature of modern VR tours as it is easily accessible on many devices, even
without a VR headset.
Instagram-Worthy Spaces

Instagram is one of the effective marketing tools for building brand awareness as many
people are now using social media to discover and share new brands. Thus, Hotels need to
incorporate quirky and playful design concepts to become an Instagram-worthy hotels. Using
themes add different visual flavors to the overall ambiance, turning online surfers into potential
clients.

Business Idea

With the trends of the hospitality industry, we come up with the idea of having a hotel
as business as it is now transforming accommodation packages into promises of a great escape
from redesigning the guestrooms and communal spaces, to providing top services and
memorable experiences, to meet the global traveler’s extra expectations that integrate to a
more tech-driven guest experiences, Instagram-worthy and green spaces, as well as
personalized activities.

Brainstorming details

The trends that we have in the hospitality industry are Instagram-worthy spaces, smart
trends, and virtual reality tours. In those trends, we easily agree on having a hotel as the
business as it fits the trends that we have. After agreeing on hotel business, we combine the
characteristics of the trends as our hotel features, facilities, and offered services to meet our
guest satisfaction. With virtual reality tours, we all know that it is indeed needed as we
experience pandemics today in which personal interactions are being observed. Virtual reality
tours now become in need before customers will book a hotel room wherein they will have a
virtual visit for the room they will accommodate, in this way, customers will start to have vibes
for the room as they can see what the surroundings are will be like. With Instagram-worthy
spaces, as it is needed to have quirky and playful designs, we generate some hotel themes to
add visual flavors to the overall ambiance of the room like modern, minimalist, and luxury
designs.

While in smart trends, the incorporating of the Internet of Things into a property is
something that excites guests, as it offers a high level of convenience, efficiency, and a sense of
luxury. With that, we come up with the idea that our hotel will have easy access to the internet,
an in-room workstation, business and conference rooms, and other mini-office amenities. It
also includes leisure facilities for indoor sports such as swimming pools where they can relax
after the seminar or meetings. In addition, entertainment systems that can be turned on
through voice command would also be a good feature.

In generating our hotel features, facilities, and offered services, we have freewheeling
where all ideas are welcome as well as being acknowledged in the whole time of brainstorming
process which led us to have success in our hotel business.