You're welcome: If LS:N Global madeÉ a hotel

For a start you wouldn’t have to fuss about the wi-fi. It would be free, of course, and there would be a good signal – so that you could self-mythologise – almost everywhere. Almost, because there would be many ‘not-spots’ in Hotel LS:N Global so that you could escape from your emails and find a sense of New Sublimity. The ultimate digital de-tox room would look a little like the Kamppi Quiet Chapel.

You would use the in-room tablet to control the colour of the lights – an amalgamation of the new tablets in The Peninsula Hong Kong and Philips Hue lighting system. You would control everything else – from your breakfast order to your check-in – through your iPhone, using something similar to the new Concierge app that Conrad Hotels & Resorts announced at ILTM in December 2012. 

The most radical thing about Hotel LS:N Global would be its physical presence. Instead of all the rooms being in one building, it would be a collection of individual rooms, with superior service and local guides – as inspired by Plus One Berlin, by Nectar & Pulse, and by Airbnb’s new hyperlocal guide service. 

With rooms customisable by smartphone, with guides that are hyperlocal, and with real-world space to digitally detox, we think Hotel LS:N Global would be on every traveller’s hot list. 

If LS:N Global made… 2012 is a series of reports reflecting the LS:N Global team’s pick of the best innovations of the year, and those that are most relevant for consumers in 2013.