Warren Dehan
4 Culture Attributes a PMS Technology Company Must Possess to Help Ensure Your Property’s Success
Warren Dehan | June 8, 2021
By Warren Dehan Hospitality is built on the development and nurturing of personal relationships, extending beyond interactions with guests to include other hoteliers and even vendor partners. Hotel and resort owners and operators know that it’s not always enough to deliver positive results to customers, sometimes it’s more important to develop a connection with guests when providing service. This mentality can be a challenge for technology partners who have been conditioned by other industries to deliver results without emotion. However, company culture defines the way partners work together, and technology companies can learn a great ...
Debunking 8 Myths of Mobile Check-In; What This Technology Can/Cannot Do for Your Hotel
Warren Dehan | May 4, 2021
Mobile check-in is ideal for independent hotels due to its ability to be used by anyone with a mobile device while personalizing the stay experience to meet each guest’s preferences By Warren Dehan For many hoteliers, 2021 is likely to be a year of experimentation, both with new technology and existing tools that have gained new purpose. The abrupt end to the previous business cycle, brought on by the arrival of COVID-19, showed the industry guests are looking for increased flexibility with regards to the check-in process. Traveler interest in mobile check-in was rising before the pandemic, but today it is almost a necessity to secure h...
Maestro Asks: Is Your Current PMS Helping or Hindering Your Reopening Plans?
Maestro | February 16, 2021
Leading property-management system provider is offering a PMS Evaluation Checklist to independent hoteliers needing a system makeover; Technology experts say today’s PMSs must support a comprehensive property experience including the contactless demands of tomorrow’s returning travelers Markham, Ontario, February 16, 2021 — 2021 is a year of disruption. Not only has the hotel business come to a screeching halt in many markets, but travelers are modifying their list of must-haves if operators want them to return, and touchless experiences — such as contactless payments, mobile check-in/out, mobile reservations, mobile keys, and hot...
Mass Rollout Bringing 900 Hotels Onto Maestro PMS Browser Version 5.5 in 2020 at No Cost to Clients
Maestro | November 17, 2020
Maestro shows its 43+ year service commitment by implementing portfolio-wide PMS upgrade to better prepare independent operators for the ‘new normal’ Markham, Ontario, November 17, 2020 — Maestro, hospitality’s most trusted provider of property- management systems for independent and luxury resorts, conference centers, vacation rentals, and multi-property groups, is nearing completion of a portfolio-wide version upgrade of its latest Browser and Windows Versions. The provider offers complete flexibility to deploy it’s feature identical Browser PMS Suite of solutions either cloud-hosted, self-hosted, in your own private cloud or o...
The Outlook for Hospitality, Part 2: How Vendors Are Pivoting to Meet New Industry Demands
Fran Worrall | November 16, 2020
By Fran Worrall In the fall issue of Hospitality Upgrade, we began our four-part series on the outlook for the hospitality industry by asking vendors the following question: What are your thoughts on the future of hotels and the industry in general? Overwhelmingly, respondents were optimistic. Despite the seriousness of the pandemic and its devastating impact on hotels around the globe, most vendors agreed that the industry is resilient and will recover. Some said it would come back even stronger than before. Not surprisingly, most believe that technology will play a key role in the process. In Part 2 of our series, we asked the foll...
Arkansas State Parks Relies on Maestro Web Browser PMS at 29 Lodging Destinations
Maestro | November 10, 2020
Operator of grand lodges, cozy cabins, and campsites discovers the grass isn’t always greener when switching tech providers; Maestro is proving to be its No. 1 PMS choice MARKHAM, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 10, 2020 — For 14 years the Arkansas State Parks system relied on Maestro to provide a self-hosted, Windows and Web-based property-management system to centrally support its 1,700 campsites and 450 lodges and cabins across 29 locations, most of which had restaurants and sales-and-catering venues. In addition to Maestro’s ResWave Integrated Booking Engine, the government-run entity was successfully leveraging Maestro’s Front Office, Sales...
The Outlook for Hospitality: Silver Linings in the Midst of Crisis
Fran Worrall | November 2, 2020
Vendors Address The Future of The Industry, Part 1 By Fran Worrall During the past seven months, the hospitality industry has faced the worst crisis in recent history. As COVID-19 has spread around the globe, hotels have been forced to lay off employees, curtail services and in some cases close. At some point, however, the world will regain its equilibrium. Consumers will be eager to travel again. And businesses will want to hold group meetings and conferences. What will the hotel landscape look like? Can anything positive come out of this crisis? We talked with a number of vendors for this multi-part series on the outlook for ho...
Maestro to Showcase Multi-Platform Web Browser PMS Options for Independents at CYBER HITEC
Maestro | October 26, 2020
Attend Maestro’s ‘Power to Choose’ Virtual Exhibitor Tutorial and learn if Cloud-Hosted, On-Premise, Self-Hosted or Private-Cloud PMS is right for you; Online event to be held Thursday, Oct. 29, at 1:00 p.m. MARKHAM, Ontario, Oct. 26, 2020 — For the first time, global hoteliers will come together virtually today to attend CYBER HITEC, an online hospitality technology conference featuring the brightest minds and hottest hotel technologies from around the world. To show trepidatious travelers that their hotels are safe, operators are realizing there needs to be change, and the urgent transformation of contactless service begins with ...
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