New York Times reporter David Johnston pondered the issue of webcam-style entertainment coming to hotel rooms after a panel discussion at Internext, where Video Secrets owner Gregory Clayman told the crowd that the adult industry could soon be selling live content to hotel chains.
“We feel that live, right now, is coming of age,” Clayman said. “We are planning to make the jump to hotel rooms.”
The hotel industry already offers pay-per-view and video-on-demand film content, and according to media research firm JupiterKagan about one-third of the $1.6 billion in sales of in-room entertainment were adult-oriented titles.
Clayman cited converging technologies that merge TVs with computers as a force that will help bring live sex content into hotel rooms.
But Anne Taulane, managing editor of Lodging magazine, who has written extensively about entertainment offerings at various hotels, said she didn’t think live sex shows would work in hotel VOD and PPV offerings, even if the technology were there.
“That would be a hard sell to the big hotel companies,” Taulane said, adding that adult content offered in hotels is heavily edited. “The porn offered now is a little more acceptable to the mainstream.”
