News for the Hospitality Executive |
March 14, 2011 - Smartstay, the
leading mobile app for
iPhone and AndroidTM designed exclusively for the
hospitality
industry, has been revamped to include more advanced features that give
hotels
greater command over the content, look and feel of their mobile app.
Working
with development partner DeCare Systems Ireland, Ltd., O’Rourke
Hospitality
Marketing has redesigned their successful Smartstay mobile platform in
direct response
to customer feedback. Among the benefits of these exciting new upgrades
is the
possibility for hotels worldwide to reach more guests than ever before
by
utilizing Smartstay’s new multilingual functionality. By offering an
app that
can switch between multiple languages, guests of your hotel from any
country
can reap the rewards of your hotel’s mobile app, even if English is not
their
primary language.
In all, Smartstay 2 includes the following new features:
A Mobile App That Reaches Beyond Borders The Smartstay app has already been adopted by hotels in 9 countries across 4 continents, including Japan, The Philippines, Israel, Australia, Ireland, England, Denmark, Canada and the United States. These hotels can now employ the multilingual feature to provide their guests mobile content in their native language, as well as offer language options for international guests. Smartstay 2’s new multilingual functionality will be attractive to foreign travelers, and they will most likely share the app with their friends and families in their own country. Using the Smartstay 2 mobile platform, hotels can enter their hotel information, special offers, image captions, and news feed content in multiple languages. Once a guest downloads the hotel app, he or she can choose to view the content in any of the languages provided by the hotel. Users can choose their preferred language by accessing the language tab, as shown below: With Google Analytics tracking built into your hotel app, hotels can now monitor user behavior, view app usage statistics and access reports. By reviewing this data, you can easily learn things like how many people downloaded your app during a particular period, or how many people used the app to make a hotel reservation. This valuable information will help you to uncover opportunities for improving your mobile marketing strategy that can potentially lead to increased ROI for your hotel, as well as provide added benefits for your guests. Get Creative With An Inspired Welcome Page Custom-designed landing pages allow hotels to distinctly showcase their brand or property by incorporating custom graphics into a new app welcome page that will appear when the app is launched. This page can be regularly updated to highlight seasonal promotions or upcoming special events. Utilize this fun new feature to get creative with your marketing and personalize your app to meet your changing needs. A sample welcome screen is shown below: The addition of custom navigation tabs allows hotels to add multiple tabs and corresponding pages to their app. With this new feature, hotels can add and modify custom app content, such as wedding, restaurant, or spa information. Meeting planners could even customize the app to coincide with a specific meeting or event by adding an agenda page, floor plans or guest speaker bios. Hotels can also re-name existing tabs for further customization. The image below shows how the addition of a custom “Packages” tab will alter the navigation bar: With Smartstay 2, RSS feeds can now be included in the app’s News section. With this enhancement, hotels can provide real-time weather, news and other informational updates by choosing to incorporate RSS feeds that are relevant to the hotel and the local area. These feeds can supplement the hotel’s Twitter feed and other news updates that also appear in the News section. Fantastic Features At A Flexible Price These exciting features unique to the Smartstay 2 hotel app are available as a complete package for a competitive price. Or, hotels can choose to purchase individual features separately. Hotels that are currently using the Smartstay mobile platform can also opt to upgrade their app with the new features. Whichever option you choose, your hotel is sure to see impressive results from incorporating the brand new Smartstay 2 app into your mobile marketing strategy. To learn more about Smartstay 2 or for pricing information, please call 888-965-5966, visit www.smartstayapp.com, or e-mail [email protected]. You can also complete this form and we will send you more information. About Smartstay: Smartstay is the result of combined efforts between O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing, LLC, and DeCare Systems Ireland, Ltd. An award-winning marketing firm that focuses exclusively on the Hospitality Industry, O’Rourke recognized the hotel industry’s need for a sophisticated mobile platform that would allow hotels to effectively communicate with their guests before, during and after their stay. O’Rourke found a proven and forward-thinking partner with DeCare Systems Ireland, Ltd, and together they combined the best marketing and hospitality knowledge with the best technological expertise to deliver Smartstay, a high-quality, robust, unique mobile solution for hotels. Smartstay Website: http://www.smartstayapp.com/ About O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing: Founded in 2001, O’Rourke is an award-winning Hospitality Marketing firm headquartered in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Serving national and international clients, O’Rourke provides hotels with a complete range of services including hotel website design and development, Internet marketing, print design, and hotel mobile apps for iPhone & Android. O’Rourke services world class brands including Marriott International, Renaissance Hotels, and Winegardner & Hammons, Inc. O’Rourke Hospitality Website: http://www.orourkehospitality.com
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Contact: O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing Phone: 978-465-5955 Website: www.orourkehospitality.com Smartstay – The Mobile Division of O’Rourke Hospitality Phone: 888-965-5966 Website: www.smartstayapp.com For additional information, contact: Sara Chapman 978-465-5955 [email protected] |