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Catering to traveling techies
The latest niche in hotel building: a new brand aimed at traveling techies.
Jerry Ellenburg, founder and chairman of eSuites Hotels in Tampa, is building four new hotels in Florida, North Carolina and Arizona.
“eSuites will offer desktop computers at workstations in every guest room. Each hotel also will include high-tech conference rooms, T1 bandwith options for Internet access, and a 3,500-square-foot, glass-fronted fitness center,” reports the Business Journal of Phoenix.
“This is a national brand launch,” said Mr Ellenburg, who believes the chain will grow to more than 300 properties over the next 10 years. The company is scheduled to break ground on its first four properties by December, and each property is expected to be open to guests in the third quarter of 2008.
Rooms will be around $140 to $160 a night.
Mr Ellenburg said cities under consideration for his next round of hotels are Charlotte; Atlanta; Dallas; Texas; and Portland, Ore.
Report by David Wilkening
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