We'll take the gym and conference room over the “health studio” and “creative meeting spaces” any day.

Marriott president and CEO Arne Sorenson was born in 1959. His boss, Bill Marriott, turned 83 in March. Hotel revolutionary Ian Schrager celebrates his seventieth this summer. These guys aren’t spring chickens by any means (sorry, gentlemen!), but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to lure 18- to 32-year-olds into staying in their hotels with the record players and street art they think every Millennial loves.

Example? InterContinental Hotels Group’s new Even brand offers kale salads and LED mood lighting next to every bed. And at Hyatt Centric—a brand that sounds like it was born out of a focus group—guests don’t enter the lobby, they walk into an “open-concept lounge where your experience begins.” Every property has a “health studio” (a gym), “creative meeting spaces” (conference rooms), and a “barman’s table” (yep, just a bar).

Written by Paul Brady

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