Uniguest partners with Google on hotel devices

Nashville-based Uniguest, which provides technology services to hotels worldwide, has partnered with Google to offer Google Chrome systems to hotel clients.

As part of the partnership, Uniguest will install and manage hotel computers, tablets and kiosks, powered by Google Chrome, that can help guests print boarding passes, access the Internet and videoconference. The devices can also be used for digital signage.

The Chrome system will be targeting limited service hotels that are seeking more affordable and secure tech solutions, said Paul Payette, vice president of global business development at Uniguest in Bethesda, Md.

“If you look at what’s happening, everyone wants to be connected,” Payette said. “This is a new product line for a market that has not had a product or solution they can offer their guests.”

Uniguest, which manages more than 19,000 devices in 8,000 hotel properties, was bought by Connecticut-based private equity firm Atlantic Street Capital in 2013. The company has also begun working with retailers on digital signage.

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