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Six Hotel Budgeting Tips for 2021

With operating budgets thrown out the window by second quarter this year, hoteliers are scrambling to find useful historical data to help guide them through the 2021 budgeting and forecasting process. Hotel operators will be [...]
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The Hotel of Tomorrow Project Showcases Future Design and Technology Concepts

A global think tank consisting of 325 hospitality industry executives and spearheaded by The Gettys Group, a Chicago-based design, development and consulting firm, have been imagining the future of hotel design and technology innovation for [...]
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Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Deploys Real-Time, Two-Way Integration with Help from Infor and Glowing

Infor, a provider of business cloud software specialized by industry, including hospitality, and Glowing, Inc., a provider of hospitality digital messaging and engagement, have completed a successfully deployment with Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. The project [...]
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YOTEL Boston Deploys Autonomous Disinfection Robots to Reinforce Guest Safety

Located in Boston’s Seaport District and inspired by first-class airline travel, YOTEL Boston features 326 smartly designed cabins and a technology-driven guest experience, including self-check-ins with airline-style kiosks and select room service and amenity deliveries [...]
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Adding Some Hospitality to the Next Normal of Videoconferencing

Are you sick of videoconferencing yet? As an immediate salve for the need to physically distance and work remotely in order to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, products like Zoom, Google Meets, Skype and Microsoft Teams [...]

Wyndham Launches New Mobile App with Touchless Features to Help Ensure Guest Safety and Enhance the Guest Experience

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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, which ranks as the world’s largest hotel franchising company with more than 9,000 hotels across approximately 90 countries, has launched its new mobile app for iOS and Android, combining best-in-class design [...]
The Peninsula Hotels Implements New Enterprise Platform from Shiji Group to Manage Its Core Operations

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Dutch Hotel Brand CitizenM Launches a Technology-enabled “Corporate Subscription” Plan

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MCR Acquires Hotel Property Management Solution Provider StayNTouch for $46 Million Following Shiji Group Divestment

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MCR, which ranks as the fifth-largest hotel owner-operator in the United States, with a $3.0 billion portfolio of 92 premium-branded hotels, has announced that it will acquire StayNTouch, a popular cloud-based hotel property management system [...]
Hotelogix Merges with AxisRooms and RepUp to Form Integrated Hotel Tech Platform for Operations, Distribution, Reputation and Marketing Automation

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Hospitality Communications and Operations Platform Beekeeper Secures $10 Million Funding Extension

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Why Now is the Time for Hotels to Invest in Advanced Technology Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic has required the hospitality sector to think proactively in order to preserve the health and safety of its employees. Most staff members spend the majority of their shifts in what are considered high-risk settings while interacting with guests, cleaning rooms, transporting luggage, serving restaurant patrons or working in kitchens. In that sense, it’s exceedingly difficult for hotels to maintain a completely safe work environment at all times amid a public health crisis. In reality, the impact of COVID-19 has caused a streamlining of investments in technological innovation within hospitality. Before the pandemic, advanced technology applications, automated intelligence and machine learning were all on the cusp of becoming an integral part of hotel operations. A 2019 study found that approximately 77 percent of chain hotels had begun prioritizing technology investments. Obviously in many cases that has slowed but it is clear that in the present and future operating environments [...]

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Six Hotel Budgeting Tips for 2021

The Hotel of Tomorrow Project Showcases Future Design and Technology Concepts

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Deploys Real-Time, Two-Way Integration with Help from Infor and Glowing

YOTEL Boston Deploys Autonomous Disinfection Robots to Reinforce Guest Safety

Adding Some Hospitality to the Next Normal of Videoconferencing

Hotel Technology News

Wyndham Launches New Mobile App with Touchless Features to Help Ensure Guest Safety and Enhance the Guest Experience

Solution Provider News

MCR Acquires Hotel Property Management Solution Provider StayNTouch for $46 Million Following Shiji Group Divestment

Why Now is the Time for Hotels to Invest in Advanced Technology Solutions

Six Hotel Budgeting Tips for 2021

The Hotel of Tomorrow Project Showcases Future Design and Technology Concepts

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Deploys Real-Time, Two-Way Integration with Help from Infor and Glowing

YOTEL Boston Deploys Autonomous Disinfection Robots to Reinforce Guest Safety

Adding Some Hospitality to the Next Normal of Videoconferencing

Wyndham Launches New Mobile App with Touchless Features to Help Ensure Guest Safety and Enhance the Guest Experience

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

Dutch Hotel Brand CitizenM Launches a Technology-enabled “Corporate Subscription” Plan

Prince Waikiki Selects Cendyn to Power Its Revenue Management and Business Intelligence Capabilities

The Pandemic Brings the Need for Hotel Payment Efficiency Into Sharp Focus

Market Research

Research: 80% of Hotel Guests Would Download an App to Check In and Out

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Six Hotel Budgeting Tips for 2021

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Spotlight Interview: John Smallwood and Brett Puffenberger of Travel Outlook