Designing Future-Ready Hotels

Hotel owners, developers, project heads, architects and interior designers, and consultants, gathered at the second edition of Hotelier India-Marriott Global Design Asia Pacific Confluence 2019, to familiarise themselves with the innovations in hotel design.

- Shristi Nangalia

What was it all about?

Hotelier India associated with Marriott International to put together an annual congregation that deliberated best practices, innovations and profits in the field of hospitality design. Reminiscent of the first edition of the 'Marriott Global Design - Asia Pacific Confluence' that took place in Mumbai in 2018, the second edition was hosted in New Delhi on July 30, 2019, at JW Marriott Aerocity.

Designed to be a day-long workshop headed by Michael Wang, senior continent head of Global Design Asia Pacific - Marriott International, the confluence aimed at addressing state-of-the-art design trends to help the Indian hospitality sector professionals build efficient, smart and future-ready hotels.

Meet our sponsoring partners

The confluence was partnered by Asian Paints Ltd, Astral Pool, Boon Edam, Everest Industries, Gras I, Harman Professional Solutions, LG Corporation, Maspar, Square Foot, Swastik Synergy, Samsung, S&T, Toto, VBev and Wang Professionals.

The organisers open the event

Gurmeet Sachdev, publishing director - Hotelier India, opened the event with a short address that welcomed the attendees, introduced the crux of the event and hoped it would offer valuable insights through the day.

"Despite the upward growth of the hospitality industry, India is at a nascent stage of delivering the best of the foremost, and very crucial, aspect of hotel development — design. I believe good design is the 'key' to a successful hotel, as it drives profit," Sachdev strongly stated. She reiterated that it is imperative for us to build hotels in accordance with the ever-evolving dynamics of trends, technology and cost.