After a quick glance at her houskeeping app to make sure
that nobody has checked into the room, Jasmina Baur,
head of housekeeping, still knocks on the hotel room‘s
door twice and calls out „housekeeping“ before opening
it. The knock and announcement simply have become a
matter of habit over the years. For the past few months,
Jasmina Baur and her team have been using the protel
Housekeeping App at the SI-SUITES in Stuttgart, Germany,
which places all of the necessary room information right at
their fingertips. Because the hotel‘s 192 rooms are located
in four separate buildings, covering long distances is part
of every-day work for Housekeeping. However, „a quick
peek at the app to see if the guest has already checked
out saves us tons of time because we no longer have to
run back and forth to the front desk located in the main
building,“ she says. Jasmina Baur quickly got the hang of
working with the iPhone and likes to use the additional information
and functions assisting her with her daily work.