InterContinental Hotels and Resorts and TimeShifter Partner to Help Guests Reduce the Effects of Jet Lag

The InterContinental Vienna, as photographed from the Stadtpark, was the first hotel belonging to an international chain to open in Vienna when it flung open its doors to guests in 1964.
InterContinental Hotels and Resorts wants to ensure that guests who will cross multiple time zones to reach one of its properties will get a good night’s sleep. As a result, it is partnering with TimeShifter, maker of the eponymously named app that helps travelers combat jet lag, to help them in this endeavor.
The TimeShifter app, which launched its app in 2018, uses research in sleep and circadian neuroscience and was developed in partnership with an expert in circadian rhythms at Harvard Medical School, Steven Lockley.
“We give people control of their circadian rhythms for the first time,” the company explains in a statement on its webpage.=
The app’s practicality filter adjust advice to real-world scenarios, and using it only requires small actions to be taken as directed by the app at times it determines based on sleep and circadian neuroscience.
“The two things that set Timeshifter apart are the practicality filter and the Quick Turnaround filter,” Mickey Beyer-Clausen, the company’s CEO, told Frequent Business Traveler at launch. “We need to make sure that the advice we give people is practical.”
By using the app, guests will arrive “at their best, feeling refreshed, energized, and ready to make the most of their time away,” Beyer-Clausen said in a statement announcing the partnership.
InterContinental Hotels and Resorts is a British-American hotel brand that was created in 1946 by Pan American World Airways founder Juan Trippe, a pioneer in travel as well as in aviation, as an outcome of a request by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt one year earlier to develop hotels in Latin America.
In 2021, the hotelier marked its 75th Diamond anniversary. It currently has 31 hotels in Europe, and 214 across the world as well as 79 more in the pipeline.
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