Chic Color, Modern Moods: Art in the Hotel
Fine Hotel art reflects sophistication, intelligence and creative expression; art galleries and museums attract those who seek beauty, creativity, and inspiration. Art surrounds us in public installations, corner galleries and even on coffeehouse walls. Hotels find their success by selling an environment of comfort, relaxation, and warm elegance; setting a mood with original artwork will surround hotel guests with fine art to admire, explore and contemplate. The art that is chosen for a hotel lobby reflects the quality of the hotel, and it sets the mood for positive first impressions as guests enter the hotel’s lobby.Not Just Taking Up Space: Inspire the Imagination
Hotels have historically added artwork to their walls, but not always with a great deal of thought or care. Many hotels may place identical art pieces in each room for a unified look. Though a framed photo or poster can fill blank space on a wall, it doesn’t make an impression or set a mood. Thoughtless art decorations allow visitors to the hotel to be unimpressed and uninspired. The hotel becomes just another stop in a trail of hotels, with no personality or remarkable attributes that are memorable in any way.The hotel lobby potentially offers an ideal space for displaying contemporary canvas art. A lobby interior with high ceilings, soft lighting, beautiful furnishings and upscale designs may already have the feel of a fine art gallery. Adding art that will complement the setting and also inspires the hotel guests will add a lot of dramatic impacts to the guest experience – making it special and uniquely memorable. Original abstract artwork will engage guests and they will remember both the hotel and its beautiful, imaginative artwork.
Tips for Creating an Art Experience
Designing the hotel lobby for art that is thoughtful and inspired will take some time and skill. Choosing guidance from artists and designers will help hotel management know how to choose canvas artwork to personalize the entrance lobby design. Taking a close look at the architecture and lighting to determine how it might enhance – or detract – from the art is necessary as well. Here are a few tips for getting started with choosing art for the hotel lobby:- Analyze the lighting: Determine where it works, and where it might need improvement to display art.
- Hire an art consultant; if on a budget, choose an art student who has experience with gallery shows.
- Consider commissioning an artist, or several artists, to create and install new work.
- Partner with an art gallery to display a collection.
- Install art correctly: Choose gallery-quality hanging of canvases and other installations.
Create a Memorable Guest Experience
Adding original contemporary art to the lobby interior of hotels creates an atmosphere that guests will seek out and enjoy. Creating a memorable environment that guests will remember, discuss and recommend to their friends and colleagues will provide benefits in terms of marketing and promotion as well. Art sets the foundation for attracting new guests, retaining repeat guests and adds an ongoing touch of sophistication and elegance that will enhance the hotel in a meaningful way.Art is Universal
Hospitality is Art. It is like the painter that uses a combination of colors to create a picture. And we all will have a different perspective of how we view the finished product. The key is to bring out the commonalities that tell us that this is an experience we want to share with others.The Hospitality Experience is no longer just about the Hotel Experience and Reviews. Though both is important components of the Total Experience. Today it is about how your Social Community interpret your experience, and how much this will impact their decision.
The Hotel Industry is not first in line to adapt to change. No doubt we have some Hotels that is doing an awesome job in today’s real-time consumer driven market. But we still have too many that is sitting on the sideline and believes all this Social Media is a lot of hype that eventually will die out.
In Hotel Industry, we have very long traditions, and this is not a bad thing. It provides us Connected Hoteliers with new challenges and opportunities to make a difference
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One of the changes I see now is that I experience more request from Hotels that are in planning and development stages want to implement Social Media from an early stage before the Hotel is up and running. It is getting to a process where customers are allowed to take ownership of How the future of the Hotels will look like.
Hospitality champions honored
Aaron
Robinson, Ambet Lagalo, Irene Vidal, RC Callorina, Makamae Iosua,
Aldrin Ortaleza, Nola Sanchez, John Thompson, Lori Lai, Renee
Kiyono-Taniguchi, Carol Ly, Troy Hiura, Maggie Tan and Skye Litsey
This ceremony is much smaller in scale than, but similar in spirit to, the Academy Awards in Hollywood, where top figures in the film industry are recognized for their accomplishments each year. The Hawaii Lodging & Tourism Association sponsors the Na Poe Paahana event, which this year was held in the ballroom of the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort. The names of the Outrigger ohana award winners are included in Barry Wallace’s article in this issue of Saturday Briefing.
There were 12 categories, ranging from Outstanding Lodging Employee of the Year and Housekeeper of the Year to Security Officer of the Year. This year, a new award for Leadership in Sustainability was presented, which reflects the fact that for hospitality to be effective and memorable, a strong performance by a broad range of individuals is required.
If our company’s founders, Roy and Estelle Kelley, could return to Hawaii today and walk around the hotels they developed from the 1950s through the 1970s, they would be unfamiliar with some of the things they encountered, such as guests walking around holding black rectangles to their ears and people using terms such as blog, Airbnb, RFID or Wi-Fi. However, if Roy and Estelle could see how arriving guests are greeted as they step onto an Outrigger property, or, if they could watch a dinner guest being served a sizzling slab of perfectly grilled mahimahi at the Kani Ka Pila Grille while listening to authentic Hawaiian music played on a nearby stage, they would know that true aloha and hospitality are still found throughout the properties operated by Outrigger Resorts.
Hospitality still flourishes even though Hawaii now receives nearly 8.5 million visitors annually, up from barely 100,000 when Roy and Estelle opened the Islander Hotel, their first, in 1947. The 26th Na Poe Paahana awards recognized the continuity and high quality of Hawaii’s hospitality industry and the extraordinary efforts of the hosts who work so hard to provide this hospitality day after day.
My warmest congratulations and sincerest thanks to all those who were recognized – and to our entire ohana for the wonderful hospitality I see you all displaying every day of the year.
Hospitality champions honored
Aaron
Robinson, Ambet Lagalo, Irene Vidal, RC Callorina, Makamae Iosua,
Aldrin Ortaleza, Nola Sanchez, John Thompson, Lori Lai, Renee
Kiyono-Taniguchi, Carol Ly, Troy Hiura, Maggie Tan and Skye Litsey
This ceremony is much smaller in scale than, but similar in spirit to, the Academy Awards in Hollywood, where top figures in the film industry are recognized for their accomplishments each year. The Hawaii Lodging & Tourism Association sponsors the Na Poe Paahana event, which this year was held in the ballroom of the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort. The names of the Outrigger ohana award winners are included in Barry Wallace’s article in this issue of Saturday Briefing.
There were 12 categories, ranging from Outstanding Lodging Employee of the Year and Housekeeper of the Year to Security Officer of the Year. This year, a new award for Leadership in Sustainability was presented, which reflects the fact that for hospitality to be effective and memorable, a strong performance by a broad range of individuals is required.
If our company’s founders, Roy and Estelle Kelley, could return to Hawaii today and walk around the hotels they developed from the 1950s through the 1970s, they would be unfamiliar with some of the things they encountered, such as guests walking around holding black rectangles to their ears and people using terms such as blog, Airbnb, RFID or Wi-Fi. However, if Roy and Estelle could see how arriving guests are greeted as they step onto an Outrigger property, or, if they could watch a dinner guest being served a sizzling slab of perfectly grilled mahimahi at the Kani Ka Pila Grille while listening to authentic Hawaiian music played on a nearby stage, they would know that true aloha and hospitality are still found throughout the properties operated by Outrigger Resorts.
Hospitality still flourishes even though Hawaii now receives nearly 8.5 million visitors annually, up from barely 100,000 when Roy and Estelle opened the Islander Hotel, their first, in 1947. The 26th Na Poe Paahana awards recognized the continuity and high quality of Hawaii’s hospitality industry and the extraordinary efforts of the hosts who work so hard to provide this hospitality day after day.
My warmest congratulations and sincerest thanks to all those who were recognized – and to our entire ohana for the wonderful hospitality I see you all displaying every day of the year.
Hospitality champions honored
Aaron
Robinson, Ambet Lagalo, Irene Vidal, RC Callorina, Makamae Iosua,
Aldrin Ortaleza, Nola Sanchez, John Thompson, Lori Lai, Renee
Kiyono-Taniguchi, Carol Ly, Troy Hiura, Maggie Tan and Skye Litsey
This ceremony is much smaller in scale than, but similar in spirit to, the Academy Awards in Hollywood, where top figures in the film industry are recognized for their accomplishments each year. The Hawaii Lodging & Tourism Association sponsors the Na Poe Paahana event, which this year was held in the ballroom of the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort. The names of the Outrigger ohana award winners are included in Barry Wallace’s article in this issue of Saturday Briefing.
There were 12 categories, ranging from Outstanding Lodging Employee of the Year and Housekeeper of the Year to Security Officer of the Year. This year, a new award for Leadership in Sustainability was presented, which reflects the fact that for hospitality to be effective and memorable, a strong performance by a broad range of individuals is required.
If our company’s founders, Roy and Estelle Kelley, could return to Hawaii today and walk around the hotels they developed from the 1950s through the 1970s, they would be unfamiliar with some of the things they encountered, such as guests walking around holding black rectangles to their ears and people using terms such as blog, Airbnb, RFID or Wi-Fi. However, if Roy and Estelle could see how arriving guests are greeted as they step onto an Outrigger property, or, if they could watch a dinner guest being served a sizzling slab of perfectly grilled mahimahi at the Kani Ka Pila Grille while listening to authentic Hawaiian music played on a nearby stage, they would know that true aloha and hospitality are still found throughout the properties operated by Outrigger Resorts.
Hospitality still flourishes even though Hawaii now receives nearly 8.5 million visitors annually, up from barely 100,000 when Roy and Estelle opened the Islander Hotel, their first, in 1947. The 26th Na Poe Paahana awards recognized the continuity and high quality of Hawaii’s hospitality industry and the extraordinary efforts of the hosts who work so hard to provide this hospitality day after day.
My warmest congratulations and sincerest thanks to all those who were recognized – and to our entire ohana for the wonderful hospitality I see you all displaying every day of the year.
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