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How the Hotel Henry Urban Resort Utilizes Maestro’s Property Management System to Optimize Performance

In a post pandemic world, only the most service-oriented businesses will survive. Putting customers first, nurturing empathy, being proactive, prioritizing communications, boosting training, and practicing patience must be the fundamental ingredients of a customer service [...]
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Launch of Contactless, Cashless and Appless Digital Tipping Solution youtip to Benefit Frontline Hospitality Workers

Hotels are struggling to keep their doors open today, and many are unable to rehire full staff. Frontline employees fortunate enough to be working amidst the ongoing pandemic are wearing more hats and putting themselves [...]
Announcement

Interface Security Systems Secures $60 Million to Expand Technology Capabilities in Hospitality and Other Industries

Interface Security Systems, a leading managed service provider delivering business security, managed network, UCaaS, and business intelligence solutions to distributed enterprises, has completed a $60 million equity financing transaction led by its current sponsors SunTx [...]
Success Stories

Mondrian South Beach Selects Advantage Reserve to Optimize Reservations Sales and Deliver Visibility into Guest Data

Advantage Reserve, the leading provider of high-quality central reservations services to the hospitality industry, has announced that Mondrian South Beach, a newly renovated, 220-room waterfront property on Miami Beach’s Biscayne Bay, has selected its services [...]
Viewpoints

Why Hotel Management Software is Mission Critical for 2021

The first half of 2021 doesn’t look all that great for the hotel industry. With the corporate and group segments still sluggish as the general public awaits mass inoculation from one of several approved COVID-19 [...]

Dolce Hotels and Resorts Launches Technology-Enabled Hybrid Meeting Initiative to Boost Group Sales Demand

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Dolce Hotels and Resorts by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is tapping technology to launch enhanced meeting capabilities. The new initiative, announced last week, is designed to provide event planners with a set of solutions aimed [...]
Wyndham Launches New Mobile App with Touchless Features to Help Ensure Guest Safety and Enhance the Guest Experience

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The Peninsula Hotels Implements New Enterprise Platform from Shiji Group to Manage Its Core Operations

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Hotel Technology Startup Virdee Secures $2 Million to Roll Out Its Contactless App, Kiosk and Access Solutions

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Austin, Texas-based hotel technology startup Virdee has secured a $2 million seed round financing led by a group of strategic investors, including former La Quinta president, Rajiv Trivedi. Virdee’s technology, including its app, kiosk and appless access [...]
MCR Acquires Hotel Property Management Solution Provider StayNTouch for $46 Million Following Shiji Group Divestment

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Hotelogix Merges with AxisRooms and RepUp to Form Integrated Hotel Tech Platform for Operations, Distribution, Reputation and Marketing Automation

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How Hoteliers Can End the Inefficiencies of Videoconferencing

Back in March or April 2020 when the shelter-at-home orders abruptly disconnected most of us from our office commutes and camaraderie with our fellow hoteliers, regrouping online for videoconference meetings made sense as a triage remedy for any feelings of loneliness and despair. With remote work now firmly cemented into the next normal of operations, it’s critical that we recognize the gross inefficiencies of this communication medium then come up with some alternatives. Primarily, most of these videoconferences are a waste of time. But this should not come as a shock for the hospitality world. In truth, long before the advent of daily or weekly discussions via Zoom, Skype, Google Meets or Microsoft Teams, many managers were already hampered from getting any real work done because their days would see them bouncing from hourlong meeting to hourlong meeting, with only enough time in between for a light nosh or a [...]

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How the Hotel Henry Urban Resort Utilizes Maestro’s Property Management System to Optimize Performance

Launch of Contactless, Cashless and Appless Digital Tipping Solution youtip to Benefit Frontline Hospitality Workers

Interface Security Systems Secures $60 Million to Expand Technology Capabilities in Hospitality and Other Industries

Mondrian South Beach Selects Advantage Reserve to Optimize Reservations Sales and Deliver Visibility into Guest Data

Why Hotel Management Software is Mission Critical for 2021

Hotel Technology News

Dolce Hotels and Resorts Launches Technology-Enabled Hybrid Meeting Initiative to Boost Group Sales Demand

Solution Provider News

Hotel Technology Startup Virdee Secures $2 Million to Roll Out Its Contactless App, Kiosk and Access Solutions

How Hoteliers Can End the Inefficiencies of Videoconferencing

How the Hotel Henry Urban Resort Utilizes Maestro’s Property Management System to Optimize Performance

Launch of Contactless, Cashless and Appless Digital Tipping Solution youtip to Benefit Frontline Hospitality Workers

Interface Security Systems Secures $60 Million to Expand Technology Capabilities in Hospitality and Other Industries

Mondrian South Beach Selects Advantage Reserve to Optimize Reservations Sales and Deliver Visibility into Guest Data

Why Hotel Management Software is Mission Critical for 2021

Uptown Network Introduces Micro Gift-Giving for Hotel Restaurants, As Easy and Personalized as a Tweet

Measuring for Success: 3 Metrics for Tracking Hotel Performance in 2021

Raines Hospitality Counts on Aptech to Deliver Next-Generation Accounting Benefits Across 19 Hotel Properties

Morongo Casino Resort & Spa Partners with Beekeeper to Connect Digitally with All Employees

RMS Unveils Its Refreshed Property Management System for Hotels

Market Research

Research: Nearly 90 Percent of Travelers Would Rather Interact with a Mobile App than a Human to Manage Their Hotel Stay

Viewpoints

Why Hotel Management Software is Mission Critical for 2021

Spotlight Interviews

Spotlight Interview: Laura Calin, Vice President of Strategy and Solutions Management for Oracle Hospitality