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DataArt Partners With PROVision to Expand Commercial and Digital Service Offerings for Travel and Hospitality Clients
PROVision Partners International | February 17, 2021
NEW YORK — FEBRUARY 17, 2021 — DataArt, a global technology consultancy that designs, develops, and supports unique software solutions, today announced a new partnership with PROVision Partners International, a strategic growth, marketing, technology, and commercial advisory firm serving the global hospitality and travel industry. DataArt has emerged as a recognized innovator in the travel, transportation, and hospitality space, developing digital solutions that are modern and relevant, often leveraging legacy systems. The DataArt – PROVision partnership is designed to further extend hospitality and travel companies’ confidence i...
Why Distributed Teams Make More Sense Now Than Ever
Greg Abbott | March 23, 2020
Travel and Hospitality brands turn to technology to improve business continuity strategies and resilience to disruptions By Greg Abbott The rate of change and the standard way of doing things, whether that's conducting business, taking care of our families, or simply getting around our cities, is being turned upside down. As the coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to spread around the world, the economic symptoms are emerging. Business continuity management is well underway at most organizations. Hospitality and travel are among the most impacted and face a unique set of challenges. For most hotel and travel organizations, there would be n...
VR or AR? Will the Hotel Industry Really Cozy Up to Either One?
Andrew Sanders | December 14, 2017
By Andrew Sanders Virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR)? This is the question. The hotel and travel industry is at a pivotal time regarding technological innovation and how it may impact the future. Do travelers want an immersive experience that they can enjoy from their living room? Alternatively, do they want to be educated and informed while on vacation? While AR and VR have a lot in common, they could also lead us down totally different paths. Augmented reality is a synthetic, computer simulated reality or recreation of a real-time environment where a user can interact with the replicated real environments, whereas virtual ...
The Top 5 Questions Hotel Companies and Tech Suppliers Need to Ask When Looking for a Development and Consulting Partner
Andrew Sanders | June 20, 2017
By Andrew Sanders, VP, Travel & Hospitality - North America for DataArt Long gone are the days when a company would "off-shore" its software development requirements as a regular course of action - especially within the travel and hospitality industry. As our industry becomes increasingly dependent on technology to support operations, there is now the need to find a technology and consulting partner that understands not only the inherent complexities but also has the development resources required to truly deliver. Our industry can be viewed, at times, as being somewhat 'Schizophrenic' due to the influx of new platforms and ...
Guest Engagement and the Customer’s Digital Journey
DataArt | June 13, 2017
What are the top five ingredients in the race for 'first to adoption' that both hoteliers and tech suppliers share? DataArt's unique domain experience of delivering successful solutions to vendors and operators positions it to offer an inside track on successfully implementing an integrated guest-engagement strategy The rules of engagement with hotel guests are changing as their needs, motivations and budgets evolve. We have identified several vital ingredients in ensuring optimal guest engagement and all the positive things that flow from having fully engaged customers: consistency of approach, frictionless interaction, and providing t...
The Need for Speed: Runtriz Leverages DataArt’s Expertise and ASSA ABLOY Hospitality Technology to Deliver “Front of the Line™” Program to Hot
DataArt | May 23, 2017
Runtriz engages DataArt to integrate ASSA ABLOY Hospitality's Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) enabled electronic lock technology to deliver Runtriz's "Front of the Line™" program to hotels, rewarding loyal guests with VIP treatment May 23, 2017 – New York, NY – DataArt (www.dataart.com) has announced that it was selected by Runtriz to help enhance its "Front of the Line" (www.FrontoftheLine.com) feature to reward guests with a VIP level experience. It is unique as it builds on Runtriz's installed base in over 100 countries to enable hotel guests to use their mobile device to not only check-in prior to their arrival, but add...
3 Technologies to Watch from HITEC 2016
Greg Abbott | July 14, 2016
By Greg Abbott As the Senior Vice President for the Travel and Hospitality practice here at DataArt, it's important that I stay on top of the latest digital trends affecting the industry. So each year I look forward to attending the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC), the world's largest hospitality expo that brings together the brightest minds and hottest hospitality products and services. And this year, it seems I was not alone. HITEC 2016 saw record-breaking attendance, with 6,395 hospitality professionals from 65 countries descending on the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans from June 20...
Google Just Upended Hotel Distribution
Greg Abbott | September 28, 2015
By Greg Abbott Google has quietly changed its approach to the hotel industry in a big way. Separate initiatives have combined to expand Google's hotel distribution influence. 1. Consumers no longer have to leave Google to book a hotel – bookings can be made right on the Google site via Google Instant Booking. 2. The bookings are cutting out the middleman – the OTA's – and going straight to the hotel itself. NB: OTA's are some of Google's largest ad spend so they could indeed be cannibalizing some of there revenue. 3. Google is using a commission model rather than a merchant model. 4. Particip...
