LAS VEGAS, Dec. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Wynn Las Vegas and
Amazon announce plans to equip all 4,748 hotel rooms at Wynn Las
Vegas with Echo, Amazon's hands-free voice-controlled speaker. The
introduction of this technology into every guest room, beginning
this month with installation in suites, will be an industry first
in the world, allowing guests of Wynn Las Vegas to control various
hotel room features with a series of voice commands via Alexa, the
brain behind Echo.
"As we have moved through the years, technology has always
played an important part in our resorts," said Steve Wynn, Chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts.
"The thing that Amazon has done with Alexa is quite perfect.
If I have ever seen anything in my 49 years of developing resorts
that has made our job of delivering a perfect experience to our
guests easier and help us get to another level, it is Alexa.
The ability to talk to your room is effortlessly convenient. In
partnership with Amazon, becoming the first resort in the world in
which guests can verbally control every aspect of lighting,
temperature and the audio-visual components of a hotel room is yet
another example of our leadership in the world of technology for
the benefit of all of our guests."
Alexa will be fully operational in all guest rooms by summer
2017, and will initially control guest room lights, room
temperature, drapery and the television. As the project
evolves, future features such as personal assistant functions will
be introduced.
"Millions of people already enjoy interacting with Alexa at home
via their Echo devices, and now they will be able to experience the
same convenience while traveling," said Steve Rabuchin, Vice President of Amazon Alexa.
"Wynn Las Vegas is known for its comfort and luxury, and we are
excited to work with the resort to enhance its guest experience
with Alexa."
Alexa is the brain behind Amazon Echo and other Alexa-enabled
devices – just ask and she'll answer questions, read the news, set
timers and alarms, recite calendars, check sports scores, control
smart devices in-home, and more. Since Alexa runs in the cloud, she
is always getting smarter – plus, it is simple and free for
developers to build Alexa skills and integrate Alexa into their own
products. In the US, there are already more than 6,000 skills
available for Alexa.
For a video of Steve Wynn
discussing Alexa, click here.
ABOUT WYNN LAS VEGAS
Wynn and Encore Las Vegas feature two luxury hotel towers with a
total of 4,748 spacious hotel rooms, suites and villas,
approximately 194,000 square feet of casino space, 33 food and
beverage outlets featuring signature chefs, two award-winning spas,
an on-site 18-hole golf course, approximately 290,000 square feet
of meeting and convention space, approximately 99,000 square feet
of retail space as well as two showrooms; three nightclubs a beach
club and recreation and leisure facilities. A luxury retail
Strip-front expansion, Wynn Plaza,
is currently under construction and is scheduled to debut fall
2017.
The iconic travel destinations are operated by international
resort developer Wynn Resorts, recipient of more Forbes Travel
Guide Five Star Awards than any other independent hotel company in
the world. Wynn Las Vegas opened on April
28, 2005 and has been recognized as the best resort in
Nevada on Condé Nast
Traveler's "Gold List" for nine consecutive years.
For more information on Wynn and Encore Las Vegas, visit
www.wynnpressroom.com, follow on Twitter and Instagram at
@WynnLasVegas and www.facebook.com/wynnlasvegas.
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