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Felcor Sells 160-room Holiday Inn-Santa Barbara/Goleta in California for $24 Million
FelCor | June 25, 2013
IRVING, Texas, June 26, 2013 - FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated (NYSE: FCH) today announced that it has sold the 160-room Holiday Inn-Santa Barbara/Goleta for $24 million. FelCor will use the proceeds to repay outstanding debt. ...
Apache Casino Hotel in Oklahoma Selects Agilysys Solution Suite
Agilysys | June 25, 2013
Newly Expanded Casino Hotel Implements Property Management, Point-of-Sale Systems ALPHARETTA, GA. - June 26, 2013 - Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading provider of innovative information technology and hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that Apache Casino Hotel in Lawton, Okla., has selected the Lodging Management System® (LMS) property management solution and the InfoGenesis™ POS system to streamline operations at its casino and new 132-room hotel. Apache Casino Hotel is owned and managed by the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. "When selecting technology for our newly expanded property, we knew we n...
Travel Tripper’s RezTrip Now Interfaces with Bay Lakes Information Systems’ Lodgical Solution PMS
Travel Tripper | June 25, 2013
New York (June 26, 2013) - Travel Tripper, the leader in hotel direct distribution, announced today that its RezTrip reservation system has certified Bay Lakes Information Systems to interface with the Lodgical Solution Property Management System. Hotels can now seamlessly manage availability, rates and inventory for the RezTrip CRS through the Lodgical Solution PMS interface. Reservation delivery from multiple electronic channels, GDS, web, mobile and OTAs are also available for those interfaced properties. According to Gautam Lulla, Chief Operating Officer of Travel Tripper, "RezTrip has performed incredibly well for our Lodgical-base...
Boutique Hotel is First to Benefit from ZENO’s InnPoint Wireless BACnet Integration with Mitsubishi
June 25, 2013
The Mayton Inn in Cary, North Carolina selected Zeno's InnPoint Hospitality Solution to monitor the VERVE LIVING SYSTEMS wireless devices that control HVAC, lighting and environmental conditions in guestrooms and share the data across the Mitsubishi City Multi Controls Network - Providing Energy Savings and Room Controls [BUFFALO, NY - JUNE 26, 2013] -The Mayton Inn, a new construction 45-room boutique hotel in Cary, N.C., is the first hotel to use the power of BACnet integration to combine the InnPoint system from Zeno Controls LLC with Mitsubishi's City Multi Central Network (CMCN). The technology enables property owners Colin and Dea...
Pan Pacific Singapore takes on technology transformation with McLaren
McLaren Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd | June 25, 2013
Singapore, Wednesday 26th June 2013 – McLaren Technologies and recently renovated five-star hotel, Pan Pacific Singapore, have unveiled the conclusion of a cutting-edge technology upgrade since the hotel's reopening. Pan Pacific Singapore's "transformation" took five months to complete and has redefined standards of comfort and convenience with consideration to room design, dining choices and its new lobby concept, all supported by the latest technology and service innovations to make guest stays effortless and refreshing. To guide them through the process, the hotel appointed McLaren Technologies, widely regarded as the preferred par...
Pan Pacific Singapore takes on technology transformation with McLaren
McLaren Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd | June 25, 2013
Singapore, Wednesday 26th June 2013 – McLaren Technologies and recently renovated five-star hotel, Pan Pacific Singapore, have unveiled the conclusion of a cutting-edge technology upgrade since the hotel's reopening. Pan Pacific Singapore's "transformation" took five months to complete and has redefined standards of comfort and convenience with consideration to room design, dining choices and its new lobby concept, all supported by the latest technology and service innovations to make guest stays effortless and refreshing. To guide them through the process, the hotel appointed McLaren Technologies, widely regarded as the preferred par...
Pan Pacific Singapore takes on technology transformation with McLaren
McLaren Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd | June 25, 2013
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PAR Springer-Miller Systems Extends the Atrio® Platform with the Addition of Atrio POS
PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc. | June 25, 2013
The Industry's First Multi-Tenant Cloud-Based POS System June 26, 2013 - New Hartford, NY - PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc. (PSMS), a wholly owned subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PAR) and the leading provider of guest-centric hospitality management systems announced today the newest module of the ATRIO Hospitality Technology Platform, ATRIO POS. With ATRIO, PSMS pioneered and delivered a new generation of technology for the industry by moving the hospitality industry to The Cloud, creating a new user experience, and thereby a new way of doing business. ATRIO POS, the next generation point of sale system, reduces the Tot...
Guest-tek™ in the Heart of Guatemala
June 25, 2013
CALGARY & GUATEMALA, June 26, 2013 - Late this spring Guest-tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd. opened its newest regional office in Zona Viva, Guatemala. The additional office locale will enable the hospitality technology provider to have a stronger relationship with their client hotels in the CALA region. "Guest-tek's growth in these locations over the past few years has been substantial", says Arnon Levy, CEO of Guest-tek. "A new office in Guatemala puts staff and resources in a position to better serve our CALA hotels." The new office serves as the headquarters for 23 on-site and 127 remote staff members providing assistance in s...
Multi-tenanted brand app launched at HITEC 2013 as iRiS takes customer engagement to new level
iRiS Software Systems | June 25, 2013
June 26, 2013 - Minneapolis: HITEC 2013: iRiS Software Systems, the award-winning, multi-lingual, interactive hospitality applications provider, has unveiled its new Brand Application aimed at multi-tenanted hotel, apartment and cruise line organisations. Taking customer engagement to a new level, the iRiS Brand App enables a customer to access all hotels, cruise ships or apartments within a group/brand, search for and book a room, make advance requests, log in to their loyalty scheme, redeem points and more. Once checked in, the customer becomes a guest with the ability to view relevant content, make service orders such as in-room dini...
Prestigious Graves 601 Hotel, Minneapolis, Selects Quadriga’s Sensiq Platform
Quadriga | June 25, 2013
See us at HITEC 2013, booth 1243 TORRANCE, CA – June 26th, 2013: Graves 601 Hotel in downtown Minneapolis, MN, is installing Quadriga's TV-based guest communications platform Sensiq in all 255 guestrooms to reinforce its distinctive, luxury brand directly to guests via the in-room TV. Quadriga is the global hospitality industry's leading integrator of network applications and in-room entertainment systems, with offices in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Graves 601 Hotel Minneapolis, part of the Wyndham Grand Collection, has a history of excellence, being voted one of the Top 100 hotels in the World, 2012, by the rea...
Chicago’s Whitehall Hotel Selects Quadriga in Move to Upgrade In-Room Communications
Quadriga | June 25, 2013
Enhancing the Guest Experience See us at HITEC 2013, booth 1243 TORRANCE, CA . June 26th, 2013: The Whitehall Hotel, Downtown Chicago.s landmark, independent boutique hotel, has selected to install Quadriga's TV-based guest communications platform Sensiq in all 222 guest rooms including 8 suites, to help deliver a superior guest experience. Quadriga is the global hospitality industry.s leading integrator of network applications and in-room entertainment systems, with offices in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Quadriga's Sensiq will enable The Whitehall Hotel to better communicate and reinforce its distinctive, luxury ...
LIVE FROM LA V—AM 760 KFMB to Air from Historic La Valencia Hotel Every Sat at 7 pm
La Valencia | June 25, 2013
La Jolla, CA -- Starting June 29, AM 760 KFMB will begin broadcasting their highly-rated weekly hour-long talk show, "It's Your Money and Your Life" Saturday evenings at 7:00 pm from the historic, oceanfront La Valencia Hotel in the village of La Jolla. The show's expanded title -- Live from La V...It's Your Money and Your Life with Richard Muscio CPA and Joe Vecchio -- will reflect its new, prominent point of origin. The program will originate from the iconic San Diego luxury hotel every Saturday evening and continue to feature notable and fascinating guests such as: Dick Enberg, Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Malin Burnham, Mayor Sanders, Mayor Fi...
Windsurfer CRS Sails Past Competition
Sceptre Hospitality Resources | June 25, 2013
With Industry-Leading Channel Management Enhancements, Big Data Innovations & Unprecedented Reliability MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 25, 2013 - Sceptre Hospitality Resources today announced the latest update to its industry-leading central reservation system (CRS), WindsurferCRS, at the hotel industry's annual HITEC conference. Significant improvements include enhanced channel management capabilities and unprecedented access to booking and reporting information, all the while maintaining complete reliability; a claim no other system in its class can make. "A hotel's CRS is its lifeline, and therefore must be completely reliable and fort...
Galt House Hotel Selects Infor Hospitality to Unify Hotel Processes
Galt House Hotel | June 25, 2013
Infor ION, Infor Ming.le to Add Increased Social Collaboration Capabilities and Greater Business Intelligence NEW YORK- June 24, 2013 - Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced that Galt House Hotel, the largest hotel in Louisville, KY, has selected ION-enabled Infor HMS and Infor Ming.le to provide a more complete solution for managing multiple hotel functions at the 1,295 room property. Infor HMS unifies roles spanning the front desk to the back office into a single application, and provides extensive flexibility and customization potential, which allows for configu...
ZDirect Pioneers ‘Hotel Marketing Automation’
ZDirect | June 25, 2013
Hospitality's leading provider of eCRM solutions is leveraging the best Marketing Automation practices, including Drip Marketing, to help hoteliers reduce costs and improve automated workflow processes Visit ZDirect at HITEC in Booth 125 [HALLANDALE BEACH, FL- JUNE 25, 2013] - ZDirect is radically changing the eMarketing landscape by leveraging the widely adopted and highly successful practice of marketing automation and customizing it for hotels. Dubbed "Hotel Marketing Automation," ZDirect is unveiling new tools used in conjunction with its ZMail® electronic communication platform that will help hoteliers reduce costs and optimize t...
hotel SystemsPro Launches hotel ProposalPro at HITEC
hotel SystemsPro | June 25, 2013
hotel ProposalPro Creates and Tracks Professional Proposals and RFP Responses; Shares Leads Throughout an Enterprise to Increase Sales and Revenue At HITEC Visit hotel SystemsPro in Booth # 931 Atlanta, Georgia - June 25, 2013 - hotel SystemsPro, a leading provider of ASP-based, enterprise hotel sales software, announced the launch of its new hotel ProposalPro solution at HITEC 2013. hotel ProposalPro enables management companies, ownership groups, and operators to quickly and efficiently share valuable leads, create professional proposals, and track statuses across enterprise portfolios to close more business. Click here for more infor...
Get myAway TV – Guest-tek Unveils Their Latest Mobile Feature at HITEC 2013
June 25, 2013
CALGARY, June 25, 2013 - Guest-tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd. will unveil its latest feature for myAway at this year's HITEC, the world's largest hospitality technology show. This innovation will give hotel guests the ability to broadcast their mobile devices on the TV screen. HITEC 2013 is in Minneapolis from June 24th to 27th. With myAway TV guests can connect wirelessly to their mobile devices (i.e. phone, tablet, laptop) to mirror the device's interface on their hotel TV screens. They can stream music and video, and even view encrypted content from online vendors. This addition to Guest-tek's OneView platform adds that extra ele...
Hilton Waikoloa Village Announces Michael Dean as New Director of Property Operations
The Zimmerman Agency | June 25, 2013
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii – June 20, 2013 – Hilton Waikoloa Village -- the 62-acre oceanfront resort on the Kohala Coast of Hawaii -- proudly welcomes Michael Dean to the hotel team as the new director of property operations. "Mike brings a wealth of experience and leadership to the property in operations and facilities management," praises Debi Bishop, general manager, Hilton Waikoloa Village. "We're thrilled to welcome him and his family to Hawaii." Dean will oversee property operations including engineering, landscaping, water features and wildlife -- including the property's resident fish, tortoises, sea turtles, birds and more. As direc...
Cendyn Announces Digital Signature Interface with Sertifi for eProposal
Cendyn | June 25, 2013
eSignatures Drive Faster Definite Conversions for Hotels & Venues Boca Raton, Fla. - June 25, 2013 - Since 1999, Cendyn's eProposal tool has provided hotels and venues worldwide with stunning interactive proposals delivered within minutes of receiving a lead or talking with an event planner. Speed to market and the ability to personalize or scale the proposal to meet the planner's specific needs have been the hallmark of eProposal's award winning web-based application. Over the years, eProposal has embraced innovation by listening to its users and developing functionality that enhances the results Cendyn's customers&...
Agilysys Introduces Insight Mobile Manager Application
Agilysys | June 25, 2013
Mobile Dashboard Application Gives Hoteliers an Instant Overview of Property ALPHARETTA, GA. - June 25, 2013 - Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading provider of innovative information technology and hospitality software solutions and services, today introduced the Agilysys Insight Mobile Manager application. The solution can be seen at HITEC 2013 in Minneapolis. Insight Mobile Manager is a mobile dashboard application that allows hotel managers to view key information about the property quickly and easily from a mobile device. The application contains panels of strategically organized data elements, including arrivals, departures, VI...
Halekulani Corporation Names Liana Mulleitner Director of Marketing
EVINS | June 25, 2013
HONOLULU – June 25, 2013 – Halekulani Corporation, which owns and manages both Halekulani and Waikiki Parc Hotel on Oahu, Hawaii, has appointed Liana Mulleitner to the position of Director of Marketing. Ms. Mulleitner joined the company on June 24, 2013 and is responsible for all aspects of its marketing programs and initiatives, as well as Public Relations and Communications. This announcement was made by Peter Shaindlin, Chief Operating Officer of Halekulani Corporation. "With her tremendous background and proven accomplishments, I am fully confident Liana will bring her unique, spirited energy to the position and become an integr...
Uniguest Appoints Lodging Industry Veteran Paul Payette to Key Post
Uniguest Inc. | June 25, 2013
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 25, 2013) - Uniguest Inc., a leading technology provider to the global hospitality industry, has named lodging industry veteran Paul Payette as executive vice president, business development. He is responsible for building relationships with new and prospective clients worldwide, developing company initiatives including new products and services, exploring new lines of business and expanding the company's existing product line. "The addition of Paul Payette to the Uniguest team further strengthens our connection with the lodging industry," said John Bearden, Uniguest chief executive officer. "Paul brings us valuab...
Pegasus Solutions Reports Global Leisure Bookings in May Grew +3.7%
Pegasus Solutions | June 25, 2013
Setting the Stage for a Solid Summer Travel Season - Booking Gains are Expected to Continue and Climb Along with Rates through August DALLAS (June 25, 2013) – Global leisure hotel bookings in May grew +3.7% over prior year, according to Pegasus Solutions, the single largest processor of electronic hotel transactions. Setting the stage for a solid summer travel season, the gains are expected to not only continue, but to also climb along with rates through August. The increased demand was accompanied by growing pricing power for hotels as rates grew +2.6% for the month. For bookings, May performed better than each of the last six years,...