Travellers’ needs are changing and so are hotel room facilities

Modern travellers are now roaming a world that is more mobile, changeable and networked than ever before. And this is something they now expect of their lodgings as well. Photo: CHRISTIN KLOSE/dpa

Hotel rooms are changing to fit the needs of modern travellers, doing away with bathtubs and minibars, and installing more outlets.

Listening to Olaf Kitzig, the founder of an interior architecture company, you get the feeling that the hotel sector is feeling a bit conflicted. Humans haven’t really changed, he says. Sleeping, bathing and working are all things that one must always be able to do in a good hotel room, he says – on the one hand.