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The thing with sound

How can hotel design and room acoustics be harmonised?

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The more people converse in a room that is not acoustically optimised, the worse the speech intelligibility becomes. / © Ashi, Adobe Stock

23.5.2025

Unlike poor design, you can't see poor room acoustics. It can, however, massively impair the quality of stay. Noise in the hotel is often torture for guests. The acoustic atmosphere can be optimised.

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Kirsten Posautz

studied comparative literature in Mainz, completed a traineeship and then worked for specialised publishing houses and companies as well as freelance journalists for print media and PR agencies. The hotel industry crystallised early on as her focus. She dedicated herself to this industry at the trade magazine Top hotel, later also as co-author of a B2C hotel guide series and as project manager of spa and wellness books. Most recently, Kirsten Posautz was deputy editor-in-chief of the trade magazine hotelbau before moving to hospitalityInside.com in the same position in February 2024.