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| The 2016 Smart Decision Guide To Hotel Property Management System |
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| Upgrading your hotel's property management system (PMS) may be on the agenda for this year, given the myriad of benefits of next-generation technology capabilities. Following are a few tips, adopted from The 2016 Smart Decision Guide to Hotel Property Management Systems (currently available for complimentary download), to keep in mind as you embark on the journey. Read more |
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| European Business Travel Trends |
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| Nearly Half of Travelers Who Use Corporate OBTs Also Choose to Book Direct Read more |
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| Hotel Technology Trends |
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| Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have been gaining relevance among hoteliers to transform their business and develop their digital capabilities for some time, but have they truly been harnessed to their full potential? Read more |
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| Analytics As A Service |
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| There is a new 'as a Service' on the scene to help online travel companies simplify technology and get the most out of their mountain of search and booking data. Analytics as a Service (AaaS), at its simplest refers to the practise of using Web-based technologies to carry out analysis of large-scale data, opposed to the traditional method of developing an onsite hardware warehouse to collect, store, and analyse the data. Read more |
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| Hotel Technology ROI |
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| Hospitality technology has come a long way from being just a back-end operations booster to guest-facing integral instrument. At this point, how do you calculate ROI you get on hotel software? While investing in hotel technology, how do you measure the returns and benefits you get from it? Read more |
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| U.S. Scheduled Airline Flights |
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| The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines and foreign airlines serving the United States carried an all-time high of 928.9 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in 2016, 3.5 percent more than the previous record high of 897.9 million reached in 2015. Read more |
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| Restaurant Trends |
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| Update from Restaurantchains.net on growing and emerging restaurant concepts Read more |
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| SiteMinder’s Global Hotel Business Index 2017 |
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| According to the report, the ability to increase direct bookings and grow online presence is a higher business priority for hoteliers than mobile bookings or personalisation to enhance the guest experience. The paradox, SiteMinder says, is that in spite of 95 percent of respondents ranking 'driving guests to book direct' as a challenge, only 37 percent nominated 'exploring new hotel technology and systems' as a high priority for their hotel business. Read more |
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| Facebook City Guides |
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| Facebook recently began rolling out a new feature that further positions the platform as a travel planning tool: City Guides. Available on the mobile app, City Guides serve as Facebook-curated destination guides, complete with recommendations of places to go and things to do. This functionality was first launched back in December, but is now being rolled out on a larger scale. Read more |
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