GPS is not confined to directions only anymore. Today this Lilliputian gadget has covered a vast area of human life. People have started making use of it in every walk of their lives. Then why must be hotels and resorts left behind, they have also come up with a variety of uses for navigation devices.



Given below are a few of the uses of GPS units as to hotels and resorts:



Almost forty Hyatt hotels provide GPS armbands to assist runners locate their track and distance, thereafter guide them back to their hotels. An escalating numeral of golf courses, comprising those at the Four Seasons Resorts’ Lanai Hotel in Honolulu as well as the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, provide players GPS units so that they may locate how far they are from the pin.



The GPS devices also help golfers order food, whereby it is learnt to the staff of having items ready or deliver them to the golfers on the course. Not only this, the skiers, at the Telluride Ski Resort in Colorado, can rent a GPS armband, which keeps the records of their runs, speed, calories burned, vertical feet, distance traveled and time skied in the course of day.



Read