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UpStay Continues Global Growth Momentum With Expansion Into North American Hospitality Market
UpStay | April 19, 2022
Leading provider of advanced upselling technology to unlock new revenue streams for North American hoteliers with industry’s first risk-free yield enhancement platform. TEL AVIV, ISRAEL & NEW YORK, APRIL 19, 2022, — UpStay, a leading provider of advanced ancillary upselling technology solutions for the hotel industry, today announced the expansion of its global operations to serve the revenue growth and experience-enhancing needs of hoteliers throughout the North American market. Benefitting from a leading presence in several international markets, UpStay’s entry into North America follows an aggressive company growth strategy t...
Inntopia and AZDS Launch Multi-Product Version of Popular RevRaise Booking Engine
Inntopia | April 12, 2022
STOWE, VT & DENVER, CO- After years of concepting, UX/UI design, and development, Inntopia and AZDS are releasing a powerful update to AZDS’s RevRaise booking engine. By combining Inntopia’s industry-leading ability to aggregate and sell products across multiple systems with AZDS’ track record for delivering innovative, conversion-increasing booking engines, the new integration allows guests to easily and quickly book everything they need for a vacation from a single, intuitive interface without leaving the resort or hotel’s website domain. “We’ve built and continually optimized the luxury hospitality industry’s leading b...
Reside Expands Virdee Rollout Portfolio-Wide
Virdee | March 10, 2022
SEATTLE – March 10, 2022 – Reside, the leading prop-tech and alternative accommodations firm with operations in over 19,000 cities and 60 countries, announced today that it has expanded its partnership with Virdee, an Austin, Texas-based SaaS provider serving the hospitality, short-term rental, multi-family and commercial real estate industries. Reside’s subsidiary Reside 3Sixty, a state-of-the-art marketplace for extended-stay corporate housing accommodations, has implemented the Virdee Virtual Reception mobile app for guest communications, upsells, and check-in and check-out across its entire property portfolio, enabling seamless gu...
UpStay Wins 2021 PhocusWright Innovation Award
UpStay | December 21, 2021
UpStay, the first post-booking yield optimization platform for hotels, has won a major international travel industry award at the Phocuswright Conference held in Florida last month. The Award recognizes UpStay as one of the most innovative technology platforms available to the global travel industry today. UpStay, participating for the first time, was selected by the international panel of judges for the Phocuswright Innovation Launch 2021 - Winner: People's Choice Award. UpStay helps hoteliers unlock new revenue while engaging with customers, explained Maína Pietrobelli, UpStay’s Vice President of Business Development, during her...
The New Wave of Brand Loyalty
Travel Outlook | August 3, 2021
How Your Hotel’s Voice Channel Can Influence and Shape Traveler’s Buying Behavior Travel has gone through a year of unprecedented challenges. 2020 was, without a doubt, the single most difficult year in the hospitality industry in recent history. With that behind us, we enter unchartered waters where anything is possible. Now, as travel emerges from a slumber, hoteliers have a unique opportunity to reshape customers' purchasing habits that were all but forgotten. Travelers, like all consumers, are habitually minded. Changing a person’s purchasing behavior is no easy task. Habits dictate nearly half of every decision we make, an...
Think ABS to Grow Revenues for the Long-Term
Larry and Adam Mogelonsky | June 23, 2021
By Larry and Adam Mogelonsky No, this isn’t a car pun that implies you should put the brakes on operations or capex. By ABS, we’re referring to attribute-based selling or, more specifically for hotels, the ability to sell guestrooms on more than just their room categories by allowing customers to search for specific in-room features or even by offering upsell opportunities. Some of these to consider are: Adjoining rooms or configurable spaces for cribs or remote work Technological enhancements and IoT integrations Connected rooms with shared common areas Key amenities like a jacuzzi, terrace or private pools Unique ...
The Unforeseen Pandemic Outcome: Normalization of the Digital Nomad Lifestyle
Jos Schaap | May 25, 2021
By Jos Schaap In the past 12 months, millions globally have been forced to work from home due to domestic lockdowns and restrictions. Now, after a year of remote work, and as many worldwide are vaccinated in increasing numbers, organizations are getting serious about what a return to the office will look like. However, companies may have a hard time dragging everyone back to the office. The pandemic highlighted many advantages of remote work and employees won’t be quick to give them up. They want to keep their newfound work-life balance. The future looks hybrid: Flexible work is here to stay. While occasional remote working this wa...
ROOMDEX, A Hotel Upsell Innovator, Releases Full 2-Way Integration With Oracle Hospitality’s OPERA PMS
ROOMDEX | May 19, 2021
Hotels using OPERA PMS and OXI can now leverage automated digital upselling to increase profits. Santa Cruz, CA – May 19th 2021 – ROOMDEX, the leader in hotel upselling automation, is happy to announce the release of its full 2-way integration with Oracle Hospitality's OPERA PMS using OXI. This integration will enable hotels using OPERA PMS to enable fully automated digital upselling to increase profit margins, while eliminating the current manual administrative tasks hotel staff has with upselling. ROOMDEX’s Upgrade Optimizer is an automated hotel upsell tool that generates revenue directly to a hotel’s bottom line. ROOMDEX int...
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