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From mood lighting to creating a particularly warm ambience as well as being environmentally friendly, Hotelier India explores the trends in lighting in hotels.

Walk into any hotel lobby and the first thing you tend to observe is that it is brightly lit (even in the day). Look more carefully and you can easily observe the numerous forms of lights all around – whether from the chandeliers on the ceiling to wall fixtures and lamp shades.

Undoubtedly, the place would lose most of its charm if the lights were switched off. Clearly, lighting plays an important part, in not just being a practical necessity in a hotel, but also to create an ambience that is hard to match.

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Luellyn D’Souza, GM, Vits Hotel Mumbai, opines, “It is usually in places like hotels and restaurants that people give a lot of importance to lighting. This is because a lot of creativity can be done with the light effects in such huge places.

It would be different in a riverside restaurant after sunset and you would see how exactly commercial interior lighting can win you over. The lights play a very important role in restaurants.

It is all about creating the right kind of a mood and ambience. When it comes to lighting, bright lights are often used a lot and it is completely opposite to the kind of light effects we would create in our homes. Commercial lighting is all about creating a focus and trying to catch the attention of the people. Commercial lighting is very important because it is a mood setter.”

Havells Endura Lite and HID Lamps and Anchor’s Viola series of switches are the latest products in lighting. Around 70% of the installed lighting in hotels is energy-inefficient.

Philips offers energy efficient and sustainable lighting solutions to hospitality players and helps them in reducing their carbon footprint by switching to energy efficient LED lighting.

Philips offers retrofit lamp solutions such as Novallure LED candle and MASTER LEDspot LV MR11, to enable hotels to easily convert to energy-efficient lighting. Philips also offers lighting control systems that can instantly alter intensities, lamp combinations and colours. One can change the mood of a general purpose room from ‘party’ to ‘conference’ at the flick of a switch.