Products ~ February 2010

SPACE FOR RENT

The WOW Toilet is a specially designed clear toilet tank for displaying images, posters, advertisements or marketing messages. Each toilet tank can be rented out like a mini-bathroom billboard in hotels, bars, restaurants, office buildings, schools, conventions, theme parks, theatres and airports. Comes with one poster or customers can design their own.

WOW Toilet: www.wowtoilet.com


BUILT-IN BARTENDER

Diamond Estate Wines and Spirits now carries British liqueur Antica Sambuca in Canada. The bottle comes with a built-in bartender pourer that is tamper proof and eliminates the problem of particles and fruit flies getting inside the bottle. Antica Sambuca is the best selling sambuca in the U.K. following its launch three years ago.

It is available in two flavours, Classic and Raspberry, giving bartenders the chance to  experiment and create new martinis and cocktails. Antica Classic and Antica Raspberry Sambuca sells for $21.95 at LCBO stores.

Diamond Estate Wines & Spirits: 416-488-4922


DISPENSE THIS

The Roval Collection of washroom accessories includes combination towel/waste units, paper towel dispensers, waste receptacles, mirrors, feminine hygiene vendors, automatic soap dispensers, toilet tissue dispensers and toilet seat cover dispensers.  They come in brush steel and can be recessed or surface-mounted. A five-year warranty is included.

American Specialties: 905-420-5542


LET IT SINK IN

Vancouver-based Blu Bathworks’ has created a freestanding ‘embossed’ pedestal basin made from Blustone, a solid surface material that is stain, scratch and impact resistant. The sink’s small footprint is designed for compact spaces in a hospitality or powder room setting and is certified to CUPC and UPC standards. Pedestal dimensions are 450 mm in diameter and 830 mm high.

Blu Bathworks: blubathworks.com





Micros buys web marketing firm

COLUMBIA, MD—Micros Systems, supplier of Fidelio property management, central reservation and customer information computerized systems to hotels around the world, announced last month it had acquired TIG Global.

This adds marketing to the services Micros can offer lodging properties.

TIG Global, based in Washington, DC, is an interactive marketing company for hotel and travel industries, with services that include website design and management, search engine optimization, social media, and mobile marketing.

“With travel being the most widely consummated transaction on the Internet today, and with most consumers conducting their own travel purchases, our products and solutions have become critical to the hospitality industry,” said Frederic Malic, CEO and co-founder of TIG Global.


Bell offers HDTV

MONTREAL—Bell recently announced it is the first national television provider to offer hotels the ability to bring visitors high definition television in the comfort of their rooms. Marriott Hotels is using the Bell TV solution in eight locations nationally.

Bell delivers in-room satellite-powered HD television from a centralized control room, doing away with the need for individual receivers in each room. Properties have access to more than 100 HD channels from Bell TV, the most offered by any television provider in Canada.