"9/27/2011--Seattle, WA, USA..Hotel employee Mayra Anguiano, 27, dusts the business center, just off the main lobby, at the Silver Cloud Hotel in Seattle, WASH. ..Business travelers armed with laptops, smartphones and wifi cards, are eschewing hotel business centers in favor of working in their rooms or the lobby, and hotels across the price spectrum have added the trappings of those business centers to where the guests are.  Hotel business centers are still used by travelers who have a document or boarding pass to print, or need to check email and don't have their laptop, but they will usually get in and out quickly, rather than spend hours working there. And the business centers themselves are likely to be small rooms with just a few computers and printers. The Silver Cloud Hotel in Seattle, part of a ten-hotel chain in the Northwest, offers up two workstations and two printers, ""and business people barely use them,"" said the hotel's general manager Chauncey DeVitis. The free WiFi and the copy machine behind the front desk seems to meet the needs of most business travelers these days, he said...©2011 Stuart Isett. All rights reserved."
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