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WHAT TRAVELERS
LIKE TO DO IN BED
C-Span vs. Adult Entertainment?
by Madelyn Miller
What Keeps Travelers Up and what Puts them To Sleep on the Road
 Westin Hotels have studied the sleeping habits of travelers
and learned all kinds of interesting things about what travelers really like to
do in bed. And to make it more comfortable, they have placed 52,000 new
Heavenly BedsTM in their rooms.
So whatever you do decide to do, you can do it in more
comfort at at a Westin.
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When asked what keeps them up at night,
73% of the travelers surveyed say they miss their spouse or significant other
and 59% say they worry about what is going on back at the office.
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Nearly all the travelers surveyed miss
something about sleeping at home. 37%
say they miss their spouse or significant other while more than a quarter (26%)
say they miss their own bed.
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Most travelers (51%) would rather sleep
in a hotel bed than in a bed at their mother-in-laws house (12%).
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One in three travelers (33%) say
they’ve had an alcoholic beverage to help them fall asleep on the road.
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Travelers do many different things to
fall asleep in a hotel room including read (53%); call their family (47%); draw
the curtains or shut the blinds (43%) or leave the TV on (42%).
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If they wake up in the middle of the
night, travelers are most likely to watch TV (30%) or read (23%) to help them
fall back asleep.
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Executives who watch TV in their hotel
beds are a pretty serious lot with CNN (79%), national network news (59%) and
local network news (51%) being their top tube picks.
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Perhaps because they depend on TV to
put them to sleep, travelers are more likely to watch thunderstorms and
filibusters than adult movies in their hotel bed. 42% of travelers say they watch The Weather Channel in their
hotel room, while 17% surf to C-Span and only 11% admit to watching adult
movies.
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Who tucks business travelers in at
night? Most travelers say the last
voice they hear before going to sleep in a hotel room is their spouse or
significant other (46%). On a less
romantic note, 18% of travelers say goodnight to the wake-up service operator
and 6% to the hotel operator.
Any just in case you
are curious, where was my first time?
 The Westin Riverwalk
in San Antonio, Texas.
And was it good for
me?
It was very good.
How did I compare to
the profile?
I said goodnight to the
operator, took out a good book, and slept soundly until my wakeup call.
Then I hit the city
of San Antonio with renewed vigor the next morning.
The Westin Riverwalk
420 West Market Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
210-224-6500
fax 210-444-6000
http://www.westin.com
800-Westin-1
San Antonio
http://www.sanantoniocvb.com
800-447-3372
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