Southwind selects SkyTouch Hotel OS as a mission-critical, integrated hotel management platform for its independent hotels and resorts

Phoenix, Arizona – June 15, 2015SkyTouch Technology has signed Southwind Hotels and Resorts, a leading hotel management company with a portfolio of branded and independent hotels and resorts in the southeast U.S., which will leverage SkyTouch Hotel OS, the most widely used cloud-based hotel operating system. Southwind selected SkyTouch based on its ease of implementation and use, mobile access, rate management features and robust, integrated offerings that closely complement and broaden Southwind’s hotel management expertise.

“SkyTouch is an excellent long-term fit for us and is a partner that offers us the ability to quickly scale as we continue to grow and manage our collection of properties,” said Gilles Arditi, President of Southwind Hotels and Resorts. “It’s our mission to build strong relationships with our clients while providing them with superior results. Our success is measured by providing the kind of operational oversight that leads to enhanced profits for the hotels and resorts we manage. Based on their strong reputation for being customer-focused, we are confident SkyTouch Technology and the SkyTouch Hotel OS platform will provide superior support for us to further that mission for our independent hotels and resorts.”

SkyTouch Hotel OS is a100% cloud-based solution that offers fully integrated property, rate and distribution management for hotel properties worldwide. With a track record of rapid implementations across thousands of properties worldwide, SkyTouch has proven its ability to maintain high standards for customer service, performance, resilience and security in the cloud, maintaining a 99.94% uptime. SkyTouch strives to serve as a long-term partner, continually evolving its hotel OS to meet its customers’ rapidly changing needs.

Shane Platt, Vice President of Sales for SkyTouch Technology, commented, “We are excited to partner with Southwind Hotels and Resorts to provide a solution that improves the hotel revenue management function and operating performance — an area of opportunity for many management companies. By providing optimal solutions that help drive revenue, save time and are easy to use for their hotels, Southwind will power their own growth as well.”