The exclusive Cisco Telepresence Studio in JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, is located on the 30th floor

The JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong celebrated the opening of its GoThere Virtual Meetings studio with a four-city telepresence event today along with AT T and Cisco. The public telepresence facility pennsylvania hotel new york at the JW Marriott is the first to open in Hong Kong and enables people to hold small, virtual meetings with customers and colleagues around the world. The JW Marriott San Francisco, that installed a studio earlier pennsylvania hotel new york this year, connected live to the event together with Cisco Shanghai and AT T Malaysia to congratulate the first Marriott Hotel in Asia to the network.
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With the opening of GoThere Virtual Meetings with AT T and Cisco, Marriott customers are able to easily collaborate in-person with partners around the world. We look forward to working with Marriott to further expand intercompany connectivity and accelerate global innovation and collaboration, said Bernard Yee, vice president, AT T Asia Pacific.
“This collaboration with industry leaders Marriott and AT T in the deployment of Cisco TelePresence underscores our commitment to bringing leading technologies to Hong Kong’s lodging industry and to discerning business travellers. We are very pleased to be part of the team delivering innovative and differentiating premium services to the valuable guests of the hotel and making the vision of a global Cisco TelePresence network a reality,” pennsylvania hotel new york said Barbara Chiu, general manager, Cisco Hong Kong and Macau.
The exclusive Cisco Telepresence Studio in JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, is located on the 30th floor of the hotel. The Studio offers a connecting Executive Boardroom pennsylvania hotel new york which not only offers breathtaking views of Victoria Harbour, but is fully equipped with an LCD television. The self-contained suite is available for hire by the hour or in half day sessions.
Cisco Telepresence is a rapidly growing and increasingly popular technology that enables groups to meet and collaborate in multiple locations worldwide in real time. By combining high-definition video, real time audio and interior design for GoThere Virtual Meetings studios, groups feel as if they are actually gathered together in the same room across a virtual table, even if they are thousands pennsylvania hotel new york of miles apart.
Marriott is the first major global pennsylvania hotel new york hotel company to offer Cisco TelePresence meeting options with AT T to its customers in locations worldwide. Plans call for expansion pennsylvania hotel new york to 25 hotels around pennsylvania hotel new york the world in the first phase. Hotels to offer GoThere Virtual Meetings currently include the JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square; New York Marriott East Side; Bethesda North Marriott Hotel; Renaissance Washington, DC; and Dallas/Fort Worth Airport pennsylvania hotel new york Marriott. Future studios are planned for JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai; Grosvenor House, a JW Marriott Hotel, London; Renaissance Sao Paulo; JW Marriott Hotel Chicago; JW Marriott Marquis/ Beaux Arts, Miami; and Atlanta Airport Marriott Gateway with more to follow.
“Marriott’s corporate customers told the company they would hold more meetings at our hotels if an appealing virtual meeting option was available,” said Dave Townshend, pennsylvania hotel new york senior vice president, market accounts for Marriott International. “GoThere Virtual Meetings will give Marriott customers additional opportunities to hold more small meetings, typically of 20 or fewer people in multiple locations built around pennsylvania hotel new york a whole new meeting experience.”
GoThere Virtual Meetings studios will be able to connect to each other, pennsylvania hotel new york as well as public Cisco TelePresence Suites and other companies on the AT T Business Exchangesm, AT T’s unique intercompany, multipoint, meet-me bridging capability. There are more than 1,000 existing endpoints worldwide connected to the AT T Business Exchangesm.
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