ProfitSword and Duetto Partner to Provide Hotels With Latest in Time-Saving Revenue and Performance Forecasting Accuracy
ProfitSword, LLC | September 21, 2021
Hotel Internet Services Demonstrates the Latest Guest Connectivity, Personalization and Contactless Service Trends That Are Key to Hotel Recovery at H
Hotel Internet Services, Inc. | September 21, 2021
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Maestro PMS Helping Prepare Hoteliers Attending HITEC Hospitality Technology Conference in Dallas
Maestro PMS | September 7, 2021
To get the most out of the world’s largest hotel technology conference, the leading provider of Web Browser based cloud and on-premises property-management systems is making four downloads available that will make shopping the conference easier than ever before, including a PMS Evaluation Checklist that compares the most in demand PMS features Markham, Ontario — September 7, 2021 — Time is money. Hoteliers leaving their already short-staffed properties to attend the world’s largest hospitality technology conference this month in search of solutions that will provide returning travelers with safe, frictionless, and contactless stay...
UniFocus Expands Its Workforce Management Capabilities With Acquisition of Knowcross
UniFocus | September 7, 2021
Industry-leading innovator of Labor Management technology extends its integrated platform with the addition of task management to boost operational performance. DALLAS, TX — September 7, 2021 — UniFocus, the leading provider of Workforce Management Systems, today announced its acquisition of Knowcross, a global leader in task management and operational optimization software for the hospitality industry. The merging of the two organizations’ technologies under the UniFocus umbrella is set to provide service business operators a single, streamlined solution for determining the real-time labor needs of their business while ensuring ...
The Barfield Partners With HIS to Deliver Seamless Guest Connectivity
Hotel Internet Services, Inc. | September 7, 2021
Luxury Texas property deploys HIS’ advanced Wi-Fi network services to meet guest expectations for high-speed, reliable internet. PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — September 7, 2021 — Hotel Internet Services (HIS), a full-service provider of internet services and solutions for the hospitality industry, has announced the implementation of a high-speed Guest Wi-Fi service for The Barfield, an Autograph Collection hotel. Opening in summer 2021 as Amarillo’s preeminent luxury hotel, The Barfield’s adoption of advanced Wi-Fi technology by HIS will ensure that business and leisure guests alike receive the high-speed connectivity and reliability ...
The Westin Fort Lauderdale Selects ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions to Implement Advanced Staff Safety and Hotel Asset Management Features
ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions | September 7, 2021
Florida oceanfront property leverages industry-leading technology to develop enhanced security responses for at-risk employees while gaining the ability to identify the real-time location of assets. Stockholm – September 7, 2021 – ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions, a leading provider of advanced security technology for the hospitality industry, has announced the successful adoptions of Staff Safety and Hotel Asset Management with the implementation of Vostio Location Solutions at The Westin Fort Lauderdale, a property managed by TPG Hotels and Resorts. Leveraging ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions’ industry-leading technology, The Westi...
Rise Uptown Hotel Implements Agilysys Cloud-Native SaaS Property Management Solution
Agilysys | September 2, 2021
Agilysys Stay PMS Will Help Improve the Guest Journey, Increase Revenue and Enhance Operational Efficiency ALPHARETTA, GA. — September 2, 2021 — Agilysys, Inc., a leading global provider of next-generation cloud-native SaaS and on-premise hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that the Rise Uptown Hotel in Phoenix, AZ has implemented Agilysys’ cloud-native SaaS PMS solution Agilysys Stay. The Rise Uptown Hotel is a locally-owned, boutique experience property tucked into one of Phoenix's most iconic neighborhoods. The hotel offers 79 guest rooms, the Lylo Swim Club poolside bar featuring Hawaiian-Japanese in...
Oakland Marriott City Center Rolls Out Clear Sky’s Food Inventory System
Clear Sky Software | September 2, 2021
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – September 2, 2021 – Clear Sky Software, Inc. ® announced today that The Oakland Marriott City Center has expanded its use of Clear Sky’s inventory control systems. This California hotel has been a customer of Clear Sky Software for many years utilizing the company’s perpetual inventory system in the beverage department. The decision was made to extend this technology out to the culinary department and take advantage of Clear Sky’s Food Inventory System. Now the hotel has one vendor and one system for tracking and controlling all food and beverage products. Features include purchasing, receiving,...
Shiji Group Establishes Shiji Canada, Continuing Growth in the Americas
Shiji Group | September 2, 2021
Atlanta, GA, USA September 2, 2021 – Shiji Group, a leading provider of hospitality technology solutions, has announced its further expansion in the Americas market, with the addition of a new leader and operating unit in Canada. Broadening the company’s commitment to the Americas, the newly established Shiji Canada organization will allow Shiji to provide localized sales, services, and support to accommodate Shiji’s growing customer base in the region. To lead this development, Shiji Group has hired Mark Scott, an industry veteran, as the General Manager of Shiji Canada. Mark brings over twenty years of experience within the ...
Rethinking Cybersecurity for the Rest of 2021
Larry and Adam Mogelonsky | September 1, 2021
By Larry and Adam Mogelonsky The pandemic is top of mind, but throughout its entirety there have been a number of daunting reports of major cybersecurity breaches and malware attacks infecting leading multinational corporations. So, while you must do your diligence to continue to protect guests from COVID-19, cybersecurity is perhaps the next most likely disaster to strike your hotel if you aren’t careful. Notably, the pandemic led numerous properties to expand their tech stacks in order to meet the shifting travel demands and safety regulations. In turn, this increased the number of potential points of vulnerability in the system. Al...
Changing the Playbook: How Labor Management Technology Can Transform Hospitality’s Outdated Labor Structures
Mark Heymann | September 1, 2021
By Mark Heymann The widespread staffing shortages plaguing hospitality enterprises are not solely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Sure, the pandemic has intensified them, but the shortages are more so a direct byproduct of ineffective labor structures that fail to align with the needs of a new generation of workers. From low wages, restrictive shift duration limits and outdated overtime rules to a lack of flexible scheduling and work-life balance, the fundamental components of hospitality’s labor structure have a negative impact on the overall work environment. Take the restaurant sector, for example. A whopping 75% of all restaurant em...
Amadeus Launches Agency360+ to Expand Hotelier Access to Leisure and Business Travel Insights
Amadeus | August 31, 2021
By deepening visibility into GDS channel performance, Agency360+™ users can now view additional agency and corporate business production, enhanced with data from Amadeus’ Demand360® More than a year into COVID-19, hoteliers are recognizing that the pace of recovery as well as the segments influencing the return of travel will look different worldwide. Leisure travelers have been driving the most demand for hotels, with business travel gradually increasing. Today, data from Amadeus’ Agency360® shows that the professional services, healthcare, technology, financial, and aerospace/defense sectors are providing the highest contribution...
Zoox Smart Data Customers Experience 550 Percent Ad Revenue Increase Using Zoox Media
Zoox Smart Data | August 31, 2021
Leading innovator of guest profile and targeted advertising campaign technology provides hotel businesses with a vital injection of alternative source income. Alpharetta, GA — August 31, 2021 — Zoox Smart Data (“Zoox”), an international provider of technological solutions that harnesses big data to build customer profiles from existing Wi-Fi networks, is pleased to announce the impressive revenue-increasing results that its Zoox Media solution has achieved for hotel businesses around the world. A state-of-the-art ad publishing platform that cuts out the need for hoteliers to contract costly third-party ad publishers, Zoox Media...
OTA Insight Furthers Growth With RMS Cloud Partnership
OTA Insight | August 30, 2021
Integration of RMS Cloud into Revenue Insight to deliver market leading revenue and business insights for hoteliers London, Denver & Singapore – August 30, 2021 – OTA Insight, the cloud-based data intelligence platform for the hospitality industry, today unveiled the incorporation of RMS Cloud’s property management system (PMS) into Revenue Insight, the leading business intelligence solution in the industry. RMS Cloud, the globally renowned PMS provider to the hospitality industry, trusted by more than 6,500 properties worldwide, can now directly link its PMS into Revenue Insight, ensuring the delivery of actionable business in...
Bally’s Corporation Selects Vizergy® to Build Digital Footprint
Bally’s Corporation | August 26, 2021
Top-ranking hospitality marketing company continues to grow with the addition of marquee clients. JACKSONVILLE, FL – August 26, 2021 – Vizergy® Digital Marketing, the leading provider of digital marketing and sales for the hospitality industry, is proud to announce the addition of a new client, Bally’s Corporation (NYSE: BALY). Vizergy will work in tandem with McGuinness Media, a Rhode Island-based full service ad agency to develop and manage Bally’s websites on Vizergy’s Digital Sales & Marketing System, providing Bally’s Corporation with conversion-focused website designs and marketing programs to increase brand visibili...
Understanding Tech Is Key Heading Into Fall
Larry and Adam Mogelonsky | August 25, 2021
By Larry and Adam Mogelonsky This year’s HITEC near the tail end of September is bound to be a riot for two main reasons. To start, if you exclude last year’s virtual event, this will one of the first marquee gatherings since lockdowns rolled out in March 2020. Second would be the pandemic itself which may have irreversibly disrupted the hotel operating model to favor a heavier tech stack to support a hyper-efficient labor model. But fundamental to HITEC, any vendor demo or any implementation is to have a vision for how the technology will improve operations, both in hard as well as in the soft, intangible ways. Investing in technol...
React Mobile Enlists Best Buy Business for Hospitality to Aid in Deployment of Panic Buttons and Beacons at Hotels Nationwide
React Mobile | August 25, 2021
React Mobile is leveraging Geek Squad® to help hotels meet the industry’s growing demand — and legislative requirements — for Employee Safety Devices Seattle — August 25, 2021 — React Mobile has enlisted Best Buy Business to dispatch its Geek Squad® agents for installation assistance of React Mobile’s Employee Safety Device (ESD) solution. With Best Buy locations within 20 miles of most hotels in the U.S., React Mobile can scale installations more quickly to ensure each property is up to date on safety compliance policies. “We are thrilled that Geek Squad is able to extend the reach of the React Mobile t...
Understanding the Security Risks of Your Hotel’s PMS Data Hosting Environment
Warren Dehan | August 25, 2021
Whether hosted in the cloud, on premise, or in a self-managed data center, managing your security risks should be IT’s top priority to keep your data, and your guests, safe By Warren Dehan Data security has come under greater scrutiny for all businesses in recent years, with larger fines and penalties being awarded for contemporary data breaches. This issue is only compounding as digital transactions take precedence over physical exchanges, and third-party partnerships become more important to maintain operations. Choosing the right partner and hosting environment for your property can be complicated, but the property-management system ...
Nayara Resorts Partners With IDeaS to Bring Revenue Science to Its Growing Portfolio
IDeaS | August 25, 2021
Costa Rican-based boutique collection to implement IDeaS G3 RMS for greater profitability and efficiency MINNEAPOLIS—Aug. 25, 2021—IDeaS, a SAS company, the world’s leading provider of hotel revenue management software and services, announced today its new partnership with Nayara Resorts, beginning with the implementation of IDeaS G3 Revenue Management System (RMS) at two of the hotel group’s boutique resorts: Nayara Gardens and Nayara Springs by Costa Rica’s Arenal Volcano National Park. Nayara Resorts recognized the importance of implementing an RMS as post-travel-restriction demand began returning, selecting IDeaS as a scal...
Duetto & Agilysys Announce New Two-Way Solution Integration With Agilysys Stay PMS
Duetto | August 24, 2021
Hospitality Tech Firms Further Strengthen Their Technology Partnership With New Product Integrations San Francisco, CA & Alpharetta, GA — August 24, 2021 — Duetto, hospitality’s innovative software as a service provider of revenue strategy solutions, and Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation cloud-native SaaS and on-premise hospitality software solutions and services, today announced the expansion of their relationship with the general availability of a seamless two-way integration between Agilysys Stay PMS and Duetto. Agilysys Stay is a full-featured cloud-native enterprise-grade SaaS PMS...
Quality Hotel Bayside Geelong Adopts BeyondTV GuestCast for Enhanced and Secure Guestroom Entertainment Personalization
BeyondTV | August 24, 2021
Full service property ensures guests can effortlessly stream content onto guestroom televisions from virtually any source without requiring username or password details. GEELONG, Australia — August 24, 2021 — BeyondTV (BTV), a full-service provider of guestroom entertainment solutions for the hospitality industry, has together with regional supplier and internet services provider, Liveport, been credited with enhancing the guestroom entertainment abilities of Quality Hotel Bayside Geelong with the implementation of BeyondTV GuestCast. Located in one of Australia’s fastest growing tourist destinations, Quality Hotel Bayside Geelo...
Amadeus and Cvent Expand Partnership to Increase Bookings for Small Meetings & Events
Amadeus | August 24, 2021
Two global leaders partner to empower planners to directly book hotel meeting space through Cvent’s Instant Book solution Tysons, VA and Portsmouth, NH – August 24, 2021 – Historically, booking a small meeting or event can be time consuming and inefficient, often requiring a lengthy request for proposal (RFP) and negotiation process. In today’s digital-first environment, planners expect to search, source, and book small meetings and events online, and hoteliers want to automate their processes and grow this important segment of their group business revenue. This is why Amadeus and Cvent are expanding their partnership to further s...
UniFocus Launches ShiftGenius, An Advanced Scheduling Feature to Find Coverage and Promote Employee Schedule Flexibility
UniFocus | August 19, 2021
Industry leader in workforce optimization solutions introduces ShiftGenius, a feature to make it easier for managers to find coverage and increase flexibility and ownership in schedules for employees. DALLAS, TX — August 19, 2021 —UniFocus, the leading provider of Workforce Management Systems, today announced a powerful scheduling feature for their Labor Management and Time & Attendance partners. ShiftGenius makes managers’ lives easier, helps employees reach a better-balanced schedule for their lives, and helps employers stand out in the labor market by addressing the trend towards more flexibility. Manager...
Aspen Snowmass Implements Agilysys IG OnDemand for Contactless Food & Beverage Ordering & Payment Self-Service Across Resorts
Agilysys | August 17, 2021
World-class Ski Resort, Aspen Snowmass, Deploys Agilysys Contactless F&B Ordering/Payment To Promote Social Distancing And Provide A Safe And Healthy F&B Experience For Staff And Guests Alike ALPHARETTA, GA. — August 17, 2021 — Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation cloud-native SaaS and on-premise hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that Aspen Snowmass has expanded its existing relationship with Agilysys with the addition of its modern cloud-native SaaS food and beverage ordering and payment solution, IG OnDemand. A current user of Agilysys’ award-winning Inf...
How Human Resources Is Embracing Automation to Give a Competitive Edge
Andrada Paraschiv | August 17, 2021
A look at how employee communication app Beekeeper is becoming a hub for automation, improving worker acquisition and retention across the industry. By Andrada Paraschiv Over the past year and a half, technology has become more relevant in human resources for a variety of reasons. The economy’s gradual recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has created a labor shortage that is quickly becoming a labor crisis. HR leaders are focusing on finding tools to improve the recruiting process and streamline workforce management. Automation is at the core of this, and it is being applied in ways that free associates and managers from tedious tasks, all...
Mercure Timisoara Adopts VingCard Allure Locks With Mobile Access by ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions to Provide Guests With Latest in Smart Room Convenien...
ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions | August 17, 2021
Newly opened Romanian property integrates advanced LED panel lock with in-room amenities to create enticing welcome environments for arriving guests while offering digital key abilities and assisting towards obtaining BREEAM certification. Stockholm – August 17, 2021 – ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions with its leading expertise in hotel security and guest experience innovation, has been selected by the Mercure Timisoara to provide its guests with the highest standard in safety, convenience and personalization with the implementation of VingCard Allure door locks and Mobile Access. Recently opened to guests and providing several firsts for the...
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