Vanessa Borkmann

Vanessa Borkmann is a researcher at Fraunhofer-IAO in Stuttgart, Germany. She is the initiator and project manager of the joint research project FutureHotel. Since 2006, Vanessa’s´ research has a focus on trends and developments in the hospitality and tourism sector. She works on innovative concepts and solutions and invented the Smart Hotel Room (Showcase FutureHotel – a vision of a hotel room in 2020), the Specific Hotel Room Selection, the first smartphone-based check-in process in the Hotel Schani Vienna, and the concept for a co-working lobby. In 2017, she received the Hospitality Innovation Award by PKF in recognition of important achievements that have had a lasting influence on the international hospitality industry. She is an author and speaker – one of her latest publications is the book FutureHotel Building 2052.