Hotels Where The Red Carpet Is A Sweaty Exercise Mat
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James Giannantonio does not consider himself a fitness maniac.

Tammy La Gorce
Hotels Where The Red Carpet Is A Sweaty Exercise Mat

But Mr. Giannantonio, a 31-year-old Philadelphian, knows he may appear that way when he visits New York.

“I have the same routine every time I come,” he said. “I check in, then I take out the yoga mat in the little workout area they set up in each room, and I do some stretching and light yoga for 20 minutes. Then I head down to the gym and run on a treadmill for 35 or 40 minutes.”

Mr. Giannantonio does this every other week, when he stays at Even Hotels Times Square South. His job as a project manager for the energy company Veolia, based in Paris, requires the frequent hotel visits.

“The thing is consistency,” he said. “If I’m coming here, I know I’ll be engaged enough to want to work out.”

Continue reading the main story Mr. Giannantonio may be just one of millions of millennials inclined to pick a hotel based on its ability to help them stay fit. A 2016 survey by the travel and hospitality firm MMGY Global found that nearly half of millennials said a premium fitness center with options for on- or off-site exercise classes was influential when they chose a hotel, as opposed to more than a third of Generation Xers and fewer than a quarter of baby boomers. (MMGY Global’s study counted millennials as those born from 1980 to 1998.)

Other studies have also shown the wisdom of using fitness to market to millennial travelers. In the summer travel tracker survey conducted last year by American Express Travel, 49 percent of millennials said they viewed an on-site gym as one of the most important features at a hotel.

Hotels have been moving in that direction. The American Hotel and Lodging Association found that 85 percent of hotels had fitness facilities last year, up from 63 percent in 2004.

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