Luxury Resort in France, Lily of the Valley, Selects Cendyn
Cendyn | June 23, 2020
Hotel Internet Services Supports Enhanced Guest Safety Initiatives by Providing Hoteliers With Insight on Latest in Contactless Technology Best Practi
Hotel Internet Services, Inc. | June 2, 2020
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Hulsing Enterprises, LLC Partners With ProfitSword to Maximize Data Management, Business Intelligence and Strategic Planning Abilities
ProfitSword | June 23, 2020
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. (June 23, 2020) – ProfitSword, hospitality’s premier developer of business intelligence and data integration software, has been selected by Hulsing Enterprises, LLC to implement ProfitSage, the industry’s leading performance data management, operational and financial reporting solution. A widely renowned hospitality and medical facility management company that oversees an array of major hotel brand locations across the US, Hulsing Enterprises can now leverage ProfitSage at each of its hotel properties to provide employees with real-time and granular insight into business performance. ProfitSage’s fully customizab...
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood in Florida Selects ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions to Implement Latest in Guest Security and Convenience ...
ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions | June 23, 2020
Stockholm – June 23, 2020 – ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions has announced the successful implementation of its advanced VingCard Essence and VingCard Signature RFID door locks at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida. A world-renowned integrated resort known for its hospitality and musical entertainment, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood selected the stylish VingCard Essence to be implemented at its recently opened Guitar Hotel while ensuring the maximum safety of guests at The Oasis Tower with the installation of VingCard Signature RFID. Constructed to resemble back-to-back guitars, the 638-guestroom G...
Clear Sky’s Beverage Inventory Control Software Implemented at the W Montreal Hotel
Clear Sky Software | June 23, 2020
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – June 23, 2020 – Clear Sky Software, Inc. announced today that the W Montreal Hotel in Montreal, Canada recently completed the installation of its beverage inventory control software. The W Montreal selected Clear Sky Software to help control all beer, liquor and wine inventory. Called Clear Sky BEVERAGE, this system is a comprehensive, perpetual inventory system that tracks and controls all beverage products. Functions include purchasing, receiving, outlet transfers/issues/returns and physical inventory. Also installed is Clear Sky’s Interface to the HotShop Procurement System and Micros Simphony POS System....
RingMD and PROVision Partners Bringing Integrated Telemedicine Platform to Hotel and Cruise Industries
RingMD USA Inc. | June 18, 2020
Globally deployed platform ensures an exceptional guest/passenger experience while providing a contactless medical outreach solution essential in today’s travel environment BOSTON AND NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FLORIDA, JUNE 18, 2020 — As hoteliers and cruise operators prepare for reopening, virtually all brands are deploying heightened sanitation practices, social distancing processes, and other health safety programs to protect travelers as part of today’s “new normal.” But to go a crucial step further and provide last-mile assurances that travel is safe, RingMD USA Inc. has partnered with PROVision Partners International to bring trust...
React Mobile Taking Panic Button Alert Monitoring, Administrative Controls to the Cloud
React Mobile | June 16, 2020
New browser-based ‘Dispatch Center’ giving hoteliers on-the-go access to the employee safety platform any time on any device Seattle, June 16, 2020 — React Mobile, the most trusted provider of panic button solutions to hotels, has recently updated its Dispatch Center to give response teams real-time access to emergency alerts via any browser. The new customer portal provides remote access and complete administrative control of the cloud-based safety platform from anywhere. “Having mobile access to emergency alerts is critical in these uncertain times,” said Robb Monkman, React Mobile CEO. “Whether an employee needs immediate...
Residences at Daniel Webster Adapts to High-Performance Guest Wi-Fi Needs by Partnering With Hotel Internet Services
Hotel Internet Services, Inc. | June 16, 2020
Extended stay hotel experiences uptick in positive online reviews by ensuring fast and reliable internet connections for core business traveler demographic. MERRIMACK, N.H. — June 16, 2020 — Hotel Internet Services (HIS), a full-service provider of internet services and solutions for the hospitality industry, has announced the successful implementation of an advanced high-speed Wi-Fi network upgrade at the Residences at Daniel Webster in Merrimack, New Hampshire. An extended stay property that offers flexible occupancy terms and a true “home away from home” experience, with suites equipped with full kitchens along with enticing on-...
TraknProtect Launches TraknKleen™ Technology Solution to Promote Hotel Cleanliness, Guest Safety and Wellbeing
TraknProtect | June 9, 2020
Staff safety solution innovator releases housekeeping app to improve protocol SOPs and brand standards to meet guest expectations in a post-COVID world Chicago – June 9, 2020 – TraknProtect, a pioneer of location-based technology purpose-built for the hotel environment, today announces the launch of TraknKleenTM, a new IoT technology solution designed to help hotels further enhance housekeeping operations, while providing guests with security and peace of mind during post-COVID travel. TraknKleenTM trilaterates data from multiple sources, such as housekeeping carts, I.D. cards, cleaning supplies, and other assets, to automatically trac...
RFPAssist Continues to Deliver Wedding and Room Block Leads to Hotels
Lodging Interactive and Commingle:Engage | June 8, 2020
PARSIPPANY, NJ - June 08, 2020 - Lodging Interactive, a full-service digital marketing, social media engagement, and reputation management agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry, said hotel customers are experiencing a pent-up demand in wedding related RFP submissions through its RFPAssist Messenger service. “In the past two weeks we have seen a lift in wedding related RFP submissions for this fall and 2021,” stated DJ Vallauri, Lodging Interactive’s Founder, President and CEO. “While RFP volumes are not at the same levels as pre-COVID, it’s an encouraging sign of recovery.” RFPAssist is a proprietary Facebo...
IDeaS and SIHOT Expand Partnership to Provide Seamless Two-Way Data Integration for Hoteliers
IDeaS | June 4, 2020
Long-term partnership optimizes revenue for all hotels and room types and delivers increased operational effectiveness through automated pricing decisions LONDON—June 4, 2020—IDeaS, the leader in revenue management solutions, announced today a new technology integration with SIHOT. The two-way data integration between IDeaS’ revenue management solutions and SIHOT’s leading property management software, SIHOT.PMS, will help the global hotel industry accurately forecast business demand, maximize occupancy and ADR and increase overall operational effectiveness through automated pricing decisions. Increases revenue, productivity a...
Cloud5 Announces Webinar Series to Help Hoteliers Leverage Technology Post-COVID-19
Cloud5 Communications | June 3, 2020
Session 1: The New Dawn of IoT in the COVID-19 World, June 10 at 1PM ET June 3, 2020 - Mass adoption of IoT has been expected for many years with some hospitality brand leaders very bullish on their predictions despite several years of deployment and support challenges. Now that COVID-19 is fundamentally changing our industry and the application of technology, hoteliers need trouble-free solutions. This webinar will look at how IoT can help hotels operate more efficiently and deliver on guest ever-changing expectations in the new normal. Join us on a journey from quarantine to innovation. clique What the state of IoT is today for hospit...
Maestro PMS Announces Webinars to Guide Operators and Hoteliers Toward a Touchless Guest Journey
Maestro PMS | June 2, 2020
Free 1-hour Webinars Will Be Held Tuesday June 16, 2020 at 1pmET and June 17 at 11amET June 2, 2020 – Maestro PMS will host free 1-hour webinars Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 1pm ET and June 17 at 11am ET. Operators and hoteliers will learn what mobile, online and touchless tools are available in the Maestro PMS system that support an overall property strategy for a more touchless guest experience. Anyone may attend. The Maestro Touchless Guest Journey and Mobile Tools support a safer guest engagement process. Click here to register for June 16. Please click here to register for June 17. “Maestro’s webinar will focus on creating a pro...
Hotel Internet Services Supports Enhanced Guest Safety Initiatives by Providing Hoteliers With Insight on Latest in Contactless Technology Best Practi...
Hotel Internet Services, Inc. | June 2, 2020
Leading provider of in-room connectivity technologies partnering with hoteliers to ensure their ability to reduce surface contact risks while enhancing social distancing abilities. CLEARWATER, Fla. — June 2, 2020 — Hotel Internet Services (HIS), a full-service provider of internet services and solutions for the hospitality industry, has announced its strengthening of efforts to ensure that hoteliers are able to cater to guest health concerns by working with properties to increase the availability of contactless and social distancing compatible in-room services. By leveraging its expertise in comprehensive guestroom television-based ser...
With Clairvoyix, Hotels Can Direct Market to Their Meeting Planners and They will NOT Have a Payment Due Until 2021
Clairvoyix | May 27, 2020
Clairvoyix extends their successful Rapid Recovery Response program to help hotels and resorts when and how they need it most. LAS VEGAS, NV (May 27, 2020) – Clairvoyix, the leader in enterprise class, hospitality-specific marketing automation, announces their latest program designed to give hotels and resorts who are ready to market to groups some much needed financial relief. The Clairvoyix Rapid Recovery Response – R3© solution is being extended to address the problem of marketing to meeting planners that may not want to book until the fourth quarter of 2020 or even into 2021. “We recognize that many hotels and resorts have h...
Cendyn and DerbySoft Collaborate to Provide Hoteliers With Advanced Metasearch Capabilities
Cendyn | May 27, 2020
Collaboration makes it possible for hoteliers to leverage AI to address the complexities in the metasearch marketplace. Wednesday, May 27, 2020 – Boca Raton, FL – Cendyn, the leading innovator in CRM, digital marketing, sales, and revenue strategy for the hospitality industry, announced today a collaboration with DerbySoft, a distribution and digital marketing services platform focused across the hospitality sector. This collaboration will provide hoteliers with the means to use the smartest artificial intelligence (AI) in the industry to power their metasearch advertising. Collaborations between hospitality technology specialists ...
Team Duetto Wins Global All-Woman Virtual Hackathon
Duetto | May 21, 2020
San Francisco, May 21, 2020 — A group of five female tech engineers from Duetto recently won first place in the Women Hack the Crisis Global All-Women Virtual Hackathon event, with their Hotel Haven concept. Hotel Haven is designed to help provide a temporary home away from home for those in need due to COVID-19 with a platform enabling companies and donors to “Gift a Room” to those most in need. Hotels can sign up to have their availability shown on the site, individuals can sign up if they need support, and donors can “gift" rooms to individuals in their geographical area. “Inspired by our customers, Hotel Haven helps connect ho...
Lodging Interactive Launches HotelSiteXPRESS Affordable Website Design and Marketing
Lodging Interactive and Commingle:Engage | May 21, 2020
PARSIPPANY, NJ - May 21, 2020 - Lodging Interactive, a full-service digital marketing, social media engagement, and reputation management agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry, today announced the launch of its HotelSiteXPRESS website design and development service. HotelSiteXPRESS provides hotels with an affordable option for new website development, hosting, SEO, and management. “We wanted to provide an economical way for smaller properties to benefit from having an updated, modern and fully mobile-enabled website to ultimately allow them to better compete within their competitive set,” said DJ Vallauri, Lodging Interac...
React Mobile Vying for HTNG’s 2020 TechOvation Award
React Mobile | May 20, 2020
The leading provider of employee panic buttons for hotels is one of 10 semi-finalists looking to be named the ‘most innovative hotel technology of the year’ Seattle, May 20, 2020 — As an HTNG 2020 TechOvation Award Semi-Finalist, React Mobile will present its best-in-class safety platform tomorrow to a panel of judges looking to name hospitality’s “most innovative technology of the year.” The global leader of panic button solutions for hotels is vying against nine other technology companies in the second round of this annual competition. Judges will select the top three finalists and online audience interaction will choose the...
Knowland Launches Free Interactive COVID-19 Hotel Recovery Dashboard
Knowland | May 20, 2020
Advanced analytics for local market and property level data allows hotels to assess competitive position and jumpstart recovery ARLINGTON, Va. — May 20, 2020—Knowland, the leader in group hospitality analytics for hotels, convention and visitor bureaus, conference centers and other meeting venues, announced today a free interactive dashboard providing actionable insights on COVID-19 hotel recovery. These insights will enable hoteliers to see their position in the rebound compared to local and/or national markets and make informed decisions to accelerate recovery. Knowland is providing free unlimited access to the Dashboard from the Kno...
Doing More With Less, How Hospitality Management Teams Take Advantage of Touchless Technologies Now
Maestro PMS | May 19, 2020
Preparing to Increase Productivity and Guest Safety in The New Hotel Landscape May 19, 2020 – Properties are working with minimal staff to keep the doors open during today’s slow down; but what about tomorrow? Travel will quickly ramp up as CV-19 restrictions are lifted. Many operators are preparing for the restart now, implementing technologies, hotel software, and processes that will support social distancing guidelines and enable more efficient operations as staffing levels slowly return to meet higher occupancy demands. “Post-CV-19 hotel operations will be about doing more with less and honoring regional social distancing guid...
Canary Technologies Delivers Contactless Check-In When Hotels Need It Most
Canary Technologies | May 18, 2020
Silicon Valley hospitality innovator looks to the future, launches contactless check-In solution to help hoteliers safely and immediately welcome guests. SAN FRANCISCO / NEW YORK, May 18, 2020 – Canary Technologies–which provides solutions to some of the world’s largest hotel brands, management companies and ownership groups–has launched Contactless Check-In™, a solution that hoteliers can implement immediately to welcome guests while adhering to social-distancing guidelines. As COVID-19 took its toll on the hospitality industry, Canary’s leadership assembled its agile engineering and development teams to solve hospitality...
RFID Hotel and LAS Hospitality Supply Address Updated Hotel Environment Standards With Introduction of Antimicrobial Key Card Technology
Lodging Access Systems (LAS) | May 18, 2020
Patented innovation capable of inhibiting up to 99.99 percent of virus and bacteria growth on key card surfaces and available to hoteliers throughout the US. Tampa, Fla. – (May 18, 2020) – Lodging Access Systems, a company that provides thousands of hotels globally with a full spectrum of key cards and credentials through its subsidiaries, RFID Hotel and LAS Hospitality Supply, has announced that it has acquired the exclusive right and license to manufacture and distribute a patented and proprietary antimicrobial plastic key card to hotels and resorts in the United States. These key cards contain New Antimicrobial Layer (NAML) techn...
INTELITY and JOINGO Partner to Drive Contactless Engagement for Casino-Resorts
INTELITY | May 7, 2020
The two industry leaders team up to help gaming resorts minimize physical touch while maximizing guest engagement Los Angeles, CA (May 7, 2020) - INTELITY®, the provider of the travel industry’s most comprehensive guest engagement and staff management platform, announced today a new partnership with JOINGO, a leading-edge mobile technology provider for the gaming industry. The integration streamlines and connects every part of the casino-resort experience, empowering properties to future-proof their business by limiting physical contact while still engaging visitors as both a guest and player. “The value of creating seamless, touch...
How to Leverage Technology to Protect Guests, Reduce Expenses, Optimize Revenue, and Take a Deep Breath
Maestro PMS | May 5, 2020
What Projects Have You Placed on The Back Burner Until Occupancy was Down? Handle Them Now During The Downturn May 5, 2020 – Travel is impacted globally by current health concerns. Occupancy is down, but in time, our industry will recover. For now, there are important things hoteliers can do to address the public’s concern over hygiene and personal contact, and many of them include technology. This period of lower demand is also an ideal time to look at your business and handle projects that may be on the back burner. Guest safety is paramount, so be ready to tell guests the steps your property is taking to protect their health. Bui...
SalesAndCatering.com Working Closely With Clients to Prepare for A New Future in Hospitality
SalesAndCatering.com, LLC | April 28, 2020
Operators Plan How to Power Up Properties – and the Industry – for the Travel Restart. Where to Re-Tool, Reevaluate, and Re-Shape Processes and Systems MOUNT PLEASANT, SC, April 28, 2020 – This will not last forever. The travel re-start will call for the same resources and experience required for a new-property opening, but now we are reopening the entire hospitality industry, and we’re doing it in a world that has been drastically re-shaped. Every hotel company, property, manager, employee, and vendor is in this together. “Many sectors are ready to get back to business. Corporate events and social gatherings are on hold, but ...
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