Joyous Devi

Joyous Devi: Travelling Monologues

Leafing through the in flight magazine on the London New York leg of my journey, the intriguing title caught my eye – Room a-Genders!  The  column that followed gave some interesting insights about the changing hotel scenario.  It talked about how hotels, which typically project a ubiquitous male presence, with smoke filled rooms and corridors lined  with empty bottles of  booze,  are  slowly yielding to a gentler, more women friendly ambience as  a recognition of the greater presence of women guests. The Hyatt in London, apparently earns 37 percent of its revenue from its  women guests and this is not an isolated instance. In keeping with this changing trend, the hotel industry, never slothful in its response to changes, is increasingly getting into the act of structuring their traditional male friendly facilities to accommodate the  solo travelling power brokers – women! The article  goes on to specifically mention the increasin...