For those with no problem handing the Mercedes SL500's keys to the airport valet but are loath to leave behind the 50-inch plasma screen and 5.1 sound, the hotel business hears you. Many upscale properties globally have begun implementing a strategy of putting advanced home-theater platforms into their rooms and suites, in some cases integrating them with business and telephony technologies that nicely mimic the way the culture is moving: Your home office and home theater are steps away from each other. "Business travel is rebounding, and the business traveler we're seeing today emerging from a recessionary economy brings new expectations of what a hotel needs to be," says Robin Mackay, his viscous Scots brogue tempered by 20-plus years working in the Chicago headquarters of the Hyatt International Corp., which oversees Hyatt properties outside North America. "We like to think we were ready for them."
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