Q: WHO IS DRIVING INNOVATION IN HOTEL HEALTH CLUBS?
RAYMOND KELLY: Guests are driving innovation. Hoteliers are traditionally good at rooms and food. It is a select few hoteliers who understand the importance of fitness to their guests.

As the general population understands that stress and fatigue can be cured for free with exercise they have increasingly requested fitness facilities in hotels to the extent that today it is the norm, not the exception, for a hotel to have a gym. And in the future it will be the norm for a hotel to have an innovative gym.

TRACY MCCURTIN: Without question innovation is driven by the guests and consumers in general. Guests expect technology and innovation to be part of the everyday experience, they want quicker check in/out, better entertainment, efficient networks, and they want this reflected in their fitness facility.

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JOHN YOUNG: We see guests demanding high quality entertainment options when they are working out on cardio products. With strength they are demanding the same level of innovation and quality of equipment as they get from their commercial health club experience at home.

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