House-from-home: A part of its steadfast world strategy, PPDS has prolonged its dedication to its manufacturing facility in Mexico, confirming a sustainable but substantial enhance in native manufacturing in 2024. The rise is ready to help the rising demand for Philips MediaSuite TVs, which debuted within the Mexican market in early 2023.
PPDS, the unique world supplier of Philips skilled shows and options, is worked up to announce the most recent part of its local-for-local manufacturing strategy, with an enlargement from 30,000 shows in 2023 to 100,000 items to be produced in its Mexico facility in 2024.
The manufacturing facility, in Tijuana, was established to help the launch of PPDS’ extremely acclaimed vary of superior, Chromecast built-in™ Philips MediaSuite hospitality TVs in Mexico.
Fuelled by sustained curiosity and requests from {industry} companions and hoteliers, the extension of PPDS’ hospitality enterprise is a part of a continued technique to offer the sustainable accessibility of its full suite of whole options to companions and clients world wide. These embrace digital signage, dvLED, interactive shows, skilled TVs, and devoted software program options, supporting all key market verticals.
Obtainable by PPDS’ system integration companions in Mexico, Philips MediaSuite is hailed as essentially the most full lodge TV in the marketplace, created for cutting-edge lodge room experiences, and designed to evolve with the wants and necessities of visitors into the longer term.
The {industry}’s model of selection
Since debuting in Europe in 2019, and in North America in 2021, Philips MediaSuite has shortly grow to be the model of selection for a number of the world’s main lodge teams, with tasks and partnerships with Accor, Wyndham Resort Group, Louvre Accommodations, and most not too long ago, InterContinental Accommodations Group (IHG), all of that are outstanding key gamers in Latin America.
The supply of Philips MediaSuite TVs in Mexico – a $7.55bn1market accounting for greater than 22,560 properties and roughly 808,000 rooms2 – brings unbelievable new and doubtlessly profitable alternatives for hoteliers trying to improve and advance the visitor room expertise, whereas creating important price financial savings, due to its distant capabilities.
Carlos Miranda, Common Supervisor Latin America North at PPDS, defined “Mexico is among the world’s main vacation locations, with near 40 million3worldwide vacationers forecast to reach in 2023, rising to nearly 55 million by 20274. Competitors is growing and it’s important hoteliers present their visitors with the easiest, personalised expertise, the outcomes of which can encourage repeat enterprise and generate optimistic critiques.”
Jeroen Verhaeghe, World Enterprise Growth Director Hospitality at PPDS, continued: “At present, greater than ever, the TV performs a vital function in attaining a optimistic expertise in inns. No two visitors are the identical, and that’s why we created Philips MediaSuite to supply the visitor’s selection of TV expertise, through our dedication to offering Chromecast built-in, Netflix securely and professionally embedded onto the TV itself, and our Android SoC delivering entry to the Google Play retailer, and extra. We’re delighted to have prolonged this availability for Mexico.”
Stream large with Chromecast
Working on PPDS’ unique Android SoC, and accessible in 43”-75” dimension variants, Philips MediaSuite TVs mix best-in-class 4K image high quality, with in depth and unrivalled ranges of leisure selection, customisation and back-end management, for the final word personalised home-from-home expertise.
Setting itself aside from its opponents, Philips MediaSuite additionally contains quite a lot of distinctive options, together with Chromecast built-in™ know-how. Making a safe, ‘multi function’ answer – eradicating the necessity for extra and dear subscription accounts, set-top bins and ugly wires – Chromecast built-in™ offers visitors with the liberty to wirelessly and effortlessly forged their streaming content material from their favorite apps, straight onto the massive display screen, from their very own sensible gadgets, no matter their cell working system.
A current hospitality examine confirmed 70 %5 of visitors surveyed rated Good TVs/Content material Streaming contained in the visitor room as a excessive consider deciding on a property, whereas forecasts in February revealed for the primary time, US adults will spend extra time watching digital video (3hrs 11m) in comparison with conventional linear TV (hrs 55m) TV6.
A part of a long-term dedication to that includes Chromecast built-in, in depth safety protocols have additionally been built-in, with all visitor information robotically deleted upon a visitor efficiently trying out of their room. This, mixed with hoteliers having the ability to handle visitor room TVs totally remotely (together with troubleshooting, updates, advertising and messaging) and eradicated threat of theft, brings important benefits.
Customers have safe entry to 1000’s of widespread apps on Google Play, together with widespread providers equivalent to native information, sports activities, and video games, in addition to content material streaming from suppliers equivalent to Disney+, HBO, Hulu, HBO, Paramount, Spotify™, and lots of extra.
Mikael Da Fonseca, World Director IKAM – Hospitality at PPDS, added: “The best way we entry and devour digital content material has modified dramatically in recent times and it is important hoteliers adapt to make sure the experiences they’re used to at house will be achieved effortlessly of their lodge room. At PPDS we perceive that significance, and with Philips MediaSuite we offer all of the instruments to let visitors take management of their very own expertise, watching what they need, when they need, and the way they need.”
Franck Racape, VP World Business at PPDS, concluded: “With our increasing dedication to manufacturing in Mexico, coupled with forecasts for important progress in tourism right here, PPDS is in a major place to help the wants of the market as we speak and into the longer term.”
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- $7.5 billion lodge worth: https://www.statista.com/outlook/mmo/travel-tourism/inns/mexico
- Properties and room numbers in Mexico: https://www.nexusglobalventures.com/industry-hospitality
- 40 million guests in 2023: https://mexiconewsdaily.com/journey/mexico-expects-to-receive-up-to-40-million-tourists-in-2023/
- 55 million forecast by 2027: https://www.strategymagazines.com/mexico-from-plazas-to-playas-tourists-find-a-warm-welcome-in-mexico/
- Streaming and selecting your lodge: https://hospitalitytech.com/customer-engagement-study-2022?from=gate
- Survey on streaming utilization (US): https://www.insiderintelligence.com/press-releases/digital-video-time-to-surpass-tv-time-in-2023/
About PPDS
PPDS is a buying and selling identify of TP Imaginative and prescient Europe B.V. (“TP Imaginative and prescient”) and MMD-Screens & Shows Nederland B.V. (“MMD”), registered within the Netherlands, with their head workplaces in Amsterdam. TP Imaginative and prescient and MMD are wholly owned subsidiaries of TPV Know-how Restricted (“TPV”), the world’s largest producer of displays and a number one supplier of show options.
PPDS solely markets and sells Philips-branded skilled shows, overlaying skilled TVs, signage and direct view LED options, worldwide below trademark license by Koninklijke Philips N.V.
By combining the Philips model promise with TPV’s manufacturing experience in shows, PPDS employs a aggressive and targeted strategy to convey revolutionary merchandise to market – from its 10″ touchscreen by to limitless direct view LED shows. Designing options that make a optimistic affect, each for resellers and for end-customers – on the proper time and in the correct locations.