{"id":1747,"date":"2024-03-06T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2024-03-12T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:05:17","slug":"hotels-take-sleep-tourism-to-the-next-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"Hotels Take Sleep Tourism to the Next Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

A.I.-assisted beds, on-call hypnotherapists and sequestered guest rooms, including one inside a stainless steel sculpture, are taking sleep tourism to the next level.<\/p>\n

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To sleep, perchance to dream. Or if not dream, at least to feel vaguely rested the next day, especially on vacation. Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n

For many people, yes. The United States is tired<\/a>, according to the National Sleep Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> and the National Institutes of Health<\/a>, and there is a link between poor sleep and depression, the N.S.F.\u2019s 2023 Sleep in America poll<\/a> found.<\/p>\n

In the hospitality world, that\u2019s a business opportunity. Hilton\u2019s 2024 trends report<\/a> revealed that the main reason people currently travel is to rest and recharge.<\/p>\n

\u201cHotels locked in a death match with Airbnb have begun to explore ways in which to compete by offering services and amenities around the primary purpose of a hotel stay: a restful night\u2019s sleep,\u201d said Chekitan Dev, a distinguished professor at the Cornell University Nolan School of Hotel Administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe earlier paradigm of a vacation was that sleeping was the most boring thing you could do while on holiday,\u201d said Kaushik Vardharajan, an associate professor at the Boston University School of Hospitality Administration. \u201cIt is only during the last 10 years or so that we have as a society started talking about the importance of sleep from a health and wellness perspective.\u201d Now, he said, a good night\u2019s rest isn\u2019t just a selling point for hotels; it\u2019s a \u201cwhole fast-growing industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

From A.I.-assisted beds to on-call hypnotherapists, today\u2019s sleep tourism is, essentially, an old dog with new tricks. \u201cThis is around the seventh or eighth time this has come up as kind of a topic\u201d since the mid-1980s, said Bjorn Hanson, an adjunct professor at the New York University Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality. Even before that, luxury hotels introduced perks for better sleep, like pillow menus in the 1960s. Other amenities (blackout curtains, white noise machines) followed.<\/p>\n

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A.I.-assisted beds, on-call hypnotherapists and sequestered guest rooms, including one inside a stainless steel sculpture, are taking sleep tourism to the next level.By Shira InbarTo sleep, perchance to dream. Or if not dream, at least to feel vaguely rested the next day, especially on vacation. Is that too much to ask?For many people, yes. The United States is tired, according to the National Sleep Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, and there is a link between poor sleep and depression, the N.S.F.\u2019s 2023 Sleep in America poll found.In the hospitality world, that\u2019s a business opportunity. Hilton\u2019s 2024 trends report revealed that the main reason people currently travel is to rest and recharge.\u201cHotels locked in a death match with Airbnb have begun to explore ways in which to compete by offering services and amenities around the primary purpose of a hotel stay: a restful night\u2019s sleep,\u201d said Chekitan Dev, a distinguished professor at the Cornell University Nolan School of Hotel Administration.\u201cThe earlier paradigm of a vacation was that sleeping was the most boring thing you could do while on holiday,\u201d said Kaushik Vardharajan, an associate professor at the Boston University School of Hospitality Administration. \u201cIt is only during the last 10 years or so that we have as a society started talking about the importance of sleep from a health and wellness perspective.\u201d Now, he said, a good night\u2019s rest isn\u2019t just a selling point for hotels; it\u2019s a \u201cwhole fast-growing industry.\u201dFrom A.I.-assisted beds to on-call hypnotherapists, today\u2019s sleep tourism is, essentially, an old dog with new tricks. \u201cThis is around the seventh or eighth time this has come up as kind of a topic\u201d since the mid-1980s, said Bjorn Hanson, an adjunct professor at the New York University Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality. Even before that, luxury hotels introduced perks for better sleep, like pillow menus in the 1960s. Other amenities (blackout curtains, white noise machines) followed.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1749,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}