The Brand

Active since 1955, the YTL Corporation Berhad is an integrated infrastructure developer, with operations in Asia, Europe and Australia. The brand's key activites include utilities, property development, construction contracting and hotels & resorts.

YTL Hotels own and manage a collection of hotels and resorts in Malaysia, Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and United Kingdom.

The Hotel

Built in the 1800s, The Gainsborough Bath Spa occupies two Grade II Listed buildings within the heart of UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bath.

Named after artist, Sir Thomas Gainsborough, the hotel offers luxury accommodation and uniquely, a thermal water spa, set within the hotel.

Guests can look forward to elegant design (created by the award-winning, Champalimaud Design) and luxury facilities, including in-room climate control, Roberts radios and a brand new guestroom entertainment system.

The Technology

Airwave flat-to wall mounted 108 x 43-inch LG US662H hospitality displays across the hotel's 4 floors, incorporating Otrum's Mirage Saas platform on each TV.

Mirage delivers a number of features via a customisable interface, including: 

- TV channel line-up management

- Fully customisable 1080p information pages, with online editor

- Native TV apps 

- External TV inputs, eg commercially certified Google Chromecast

Google Chromecast was implemented on each TV, providing guests with a vehicle to cast content from their own device, to the TV.

Airwave's design technicians created a GUI, incorporating a rich browsing experience, including a scrolling image slideshow, hotel video (shown at the top of this page), access to Chromecast and a series of information pages.