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The World’s First Smart Hotel Brand and How It’s Disrupting the Industry

Name: The World’s First Smart Hotel Brand and How It’s Disrupting the Industry
Uploaded: 2022-11-16T16:25:41.000Z
Description: Ken Patel, MBA, Founder, EV Hotel gives insight into how the hospitality industry can focus on bringing in new revenue streams through innovation. Ken’s Thoughts: “EV Hotel is the world’s first smart hotel brand. It’s aimed at creating new layers of the revenue stream. The industry’s only been focused on one layer of…

Ken Patel, MBA, Founder, EV Hotel gives insight into how the hospitality industry can focus on bringing in new revenue streams through innovation. Ken’s Thoughts: “EV Hotel is the world’s first smart hotel brand. It’s aimed at creating new layers of the revenue stream. The industry’s only been focused on one layer of…

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November 16, 2022, 4:25 PM UTC

Ken Patel, MBA, Founder, EV Hotel gives insight into how the hospitality industry can focus on bringing in new revenue streams through innovation.

Ken’s Thoughts:

“EV Hotel is the world’s first smart hotel brand. It’s aimed at creating new layers of the revenue stream. The industry’s only been focused on one layer of revenue stream, and that’s room revenue. So now as we bring crypto, we bring NFT, and you know, everything is going have its own use.

And you know, on top of it, I think today the crypto news wasn’t great but doesn’t mean crypto’s gonna just vanish into thin air. And that’s the same thing for the NFTs. It’s what we call the evolution. 20 years ago we had the evolution with Google, Microsoft, Apple, and now we have the evolution with the Web3, crypto, NFTs, and this how we’re revolutionizing the industry, how we’re bringing these different pieces into this global brand that’s already made a global impact.”

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