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Agilysys Continues Its Commitment to Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Agilysys | October 22, 2015
Movie Ticket Donations Made in Conjunction with 2015 Global Gaming Expo ALPHARETTA, GA. — Oct. 22, 2015 — Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, is donating 500 AMC movie tickets to Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada as part of its 'Lasting Connections' initiative, which supports and encourages community outreach. Each time an attendee at the recent Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas visited the Agilysys booth and viewed a product demo, a movie ticket donation was made. The donations will provide an entertaining outing for cl...
The Next Battle in Corporate Real Estate’s War for Talent: Data Scientists
JLL | October 21, 2015
Corporate real estate is increasingly data-driven but analytics expertise is in short supply Chicago, Oct. 21, 2015 – The war for technology talent isn't just a problem for tech firms. The shortage of real estate and workplace-focused data scientists is becoming a major concern for corporate real estate (CRE) departments, according to JLL research. And CRE departments are not just competing with each other they are facing competition with the tech industry and start-ups, competitors, service providers and other departments inside their own companies. In the last five years, corporate real estate leaders have become fierce competit...
Digital Signage Expo Names Four Hotel & Casino Professionals to 2015-16 Advisory Board
DSE | October 21, 2015
Atlanta – Digital Signage Expo (DSE), the world's largest tradeshow and educational conference for digital display, interactive technology and digital out-of-home networks (DOOH), today named its Advisory Board for 2015-16. The Advisory Board is comprised of more than 60 professionals representing Hotel & Casino operators, Advertising Agencies, Digital Out-of-Home Networks, Industry Consultants and several end user verticals, including Corporate Communications, Higher Education, Restaurants and Food Service, and Retail, as well as many others. The list of organizations represented includes: Hilton Worldwide - Richard Morris, D...
American Realty Capital Hospitality Trust Acquires 10 Hotels for $150 Million from Summit
ARC Hospitality | October 21, 2015
NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2015 -- American Realty Capital Hospitality Trust, Inc. ("ARC Hospitality" or the "Company") announced today that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of 10 hotels for a purchase price of $150.1 million from Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE: INN) ("Summit"), a publicly-traded hotel real estate investment trust. This transaction represents the first 10 of 26 hotels that the Company announced it will be acquiring from Summit for a total purchase price of $347.4 million. In addition, ARC Hospitality currently has another 18 hotels under contract with unrelated Sellers for $392....
Service Shines at Bustling Delta Toronto with Help of GoConcierge
the Delta Toronto | October 21, 2015
Web Based Application Adds Efficiencies to Multiple Departments at Downtown Hotel TORONTO—October 21, 2015—When a VIP visiting the bustling 567-room Delta Toronto required 30 limousine transfers during his family's stay, GoConcierge made managing that trip easy thanks to its ability to quickly and accurately generate itineraries. "We were able to send a highly professional 30-page document with personalized confirmation letter to the guest with ease thanks to GoConcierge," says Genevieve Moir, Chef Concierge at the Delta Toronto and Member, Les Clefs d'Or Canada. Itinerary generation is just one of the many tasks efficie...
Hospitality Management Corporation Appoints George Garzzoria Regional Director of Sales & Marketing
Hospitality Management Corporation (HMC) | October 20, 2015
Executive Sales Professional with 20+ Years Industry Experience to Join Dallas Team Dallas, TX – Leo Spriggs, President and CEO of Hospitality Management Corporation (HMC), is delighted to announce the addition of George Garzzoria to HMC's corporate team. Garzzoria will report to HMC's VP of Sales and Marketing and be responsible for all top line revenue for a select group of HMC managed hotels, as well as oversee all sales and marketing efforts. He will also focus on increasing guest satisfaction, provide sales training, develop revenue opportunities and manage local initiatives to increase customer and brand awareness. The compa...
Fragrance Hotels: “Bookings are up 40 percent since we partnered with SiteMinder”
SiteMinder | October 20, 2015
20 October 2015 - Dallas, US – One of Singapore's largest hotel chains, Fragrance Hotels, has revealed its group-wide bookings from the web have risen forty percent since making the decision one year ago to partner with SiteMinder, the global hotel industry's leading cloud platform. The Singapore Stock Exchange-listed hotel group today uses SiteMinder's Channel Manager to power its online distribution and deliver its room rates, availability and reservations in real-time between its integrated property management system, Pyxis, and its online channels. "Managing more than twenty of the most sought-after budget accommodation option...
Agilysys Recognized for Groundbreaking rGuest® Seat Solution
Agilysys | October 20, 2015
BIG Awards for Business Names Innovative Solution a Finalist for 'Product of the Year' ALPHARETTA, GA. — Oct. 20, 2015 — Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that rGuest® Seat, the company's groundbreaking restaurant reservations and table management solution, has been named a finalist for 'Product of the Year' in the 2015 BIG Awards for Business. Presented by the Business Intelligence Group, the BIG Awards for Business recognizes top-performing companies and organizations from around the world using a ...
Kaba and DORMA Finalize Merger
October 20, 2015
Industry Leader Emerges: DORMA and Kaba form dorma+kaba Group. Combined dorma+kaba Group Brand Now One of Top 3 Global Access Providers MONTREAL, QC, CANADA – October 20, 2015 – Kaba announced on 1 September 2015 that its merger with DORMA is finalized. The new company, dorma+kaba Group, with pro forma annual sales of more than CHF 2B ($2.1B) and more than 16,000 staff in 50 countries, is one of the top 3 firms in global access control. Kaba provides the Saflok™ and ILCO™ brands of electronic locks. Click here for information on Kaba electronic locks. DORMA products in wide use throughout hospitality industry DOR...
INTEREL Group CEO Joins HTNG Vendor Advisory Council
INTEREL | October 19, 2015
Dubai, October 2015: Florian Gallini, Group CEO of INTEREL, the world's fastest-growing manufacturer of integrated room technologies in the luxury hospitality industry, has been elected to the HTNG Vendor Advisory Council for a three-year term. Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) is the largest global not-for-profit trade association for the hospitality technology industry. The HTNG Vendor Advisory Council is intended to ensure that HTNG continues to address the needs of members who are technology providers. It was created to improve communications and alignment between HTNG's most engaged vendors and the hotel IT executives ser...
Duetto’s Marco Benvenuti is 2015-16 Pillsbury Institute Entrepreneur in Residence at Cornell’s SHA
Duetto | October 19, 2015
New York, October 19, 2015 – Marco Benvenuti, Chief Product and Analytics Officer and co- founder of Duetto, has been named Entrepreneur in Residence by the Pillsbury Institute at Cornell University's School of Hospitality Administration (SHA). Benvenuti will teach courses at SHA, hold regular office hours on campus and participate in other academic and social programs in the SHA community. His first quarterly visit begins on October 19th. Benvenuti holds an MMH from Cornell, where he currently serves on the advisory board of the Center for Hospitality Research at SHA. "I am proud to begin serving as Entrepreneur in Residence at t...
Fontainebleau Turns to Sabre’s Digital Marketing Solutions to Deliver Personalized Guest Experience
Sabre Corporation | October 19, 2015
New website leverages Sabre's award-winning digital marketing capabilities to deliver an interactive mobile experience to guests, driving online reservations and ancillary revenue SOUTHLAKE, Texas – Oct. 19, 2015 – Fontainebleau Miami Beach has selected Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), the leading technology provider to the global travel industry, to deliver state-of-the-art digital marketing solutions for the iconic Miami Beach luxury hotel, including a newly redesigned website (www.fontainebleau.com). By powering Fontainebleau's online channel, Sabre's award-winning brand and user experience solutions are reinventing and ...
How to Use Live Streaming to Create Viral Video Content for Your Hotel
Lodging Interactive | October 19, 2015
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Duetto Partners with ReviewPro Integrating its Global Review Index™ (GRI) Data
Duetto | October 15, 2015
Expanded Partnership Helps Hotels Optimize Revenues by Benchmarking Online Reputation Vs. Competitors New York, October 15, 2015 – Duetto, the market leader in hotel profit optimization technology, announced that it has fully integrated ReviewPro's Global Review IndexTM (GRI) data into its dashboard, helping Duetto's customers by benchmarking reputation performance against their competitive sets. The partnership adds GRI's advanced reputation analytics to Duetto's tools for helping hotels fully optimize revenue and manage distribution complexity in today's rapidly changing online marketplace. "We're pleased to deepen our partners...
100+ Preferred Hotels & Resorts Properties Rely on Digital Alchemy to Strengthen Guest Relationships
Preferred Hotels & Resorts | October 15, 2015
Independent Member Properties Use Custom Email Services, eSurveys to Build Guest Loyalty October 15, 2015 – Digital Alchemy, the leading provider of hospitality Customer Relationship Management, guest communications, and email marketing for hotels, announced that more than 100 Preferred Hotels & Resorts properties now use its suite of online guest communication and digital marketing tools. Digital Alchemy drives revenue through dynamic personalized 2-way mobile messaging, guest communication, marketing, and guest feedback and guarantees a 400% ROI on its services. Click here for information on Digital Alchemy. "Digital Alchemy...
Mobile Payments: The New Expectation For Hotels
Kristen Gramigna | October 15, 2015
By Kristen Gramigna Mobile payments are now a common means of accepting payment in stores, food trucks and festivals — but did you know travelers have embraced them wholeheartedly, too? In fact, nearly half of travelers who responded to a survey by the air transport firm SITA said they'd "definitely" use mobile payments during their journey. Here's are a look at why customers now expect that the hotel they choose has embraced mobile payment technology. Mobile guests expect mobile accommodations. The Pew Research Center reports that nearly two-thirds of Americans now own a smartphone, which they use to "navigate the world around t...
TrustYou Announces Expedia Veteran, Jens Uwe Parkitny to Serve as New Asia-Pacific Advisor
TrustYou | October 15, 2015
Singapore and Munich, Germany – October 15, 2015 – TrustYou announced today that Jens Uwe Parkitny will serve as the company's new advisor in the Asia-Pacific market. Jens is an online travel veteran who started his career as a Senior Producer in Microsoft's Travel Business Unit in 1997, the division that launched the online travel agency Expedia. In 1999, when Expedia spun-off from Microsoft, Jens became one of the founding members of Expedia, Inc. Jens' appointment comes just days after TrustYou announced that it took over Brand Karma's online reputation management product and will plan for aggressive growth throughout the...
Hotelier’s Action Plan to Win Back Market Share from the OTAs
the Authors and HeBS Digital | October 15, 2015
By Max Starkov and Sara O'Brien Background: Despite a booming hospitality economy and record occupancy rates, ADRs and RevPARs, OTA market share is creeping up to frightening rates. It has been on a steady incline for some time; so much so that inflated OTA market share is starting to feel like the new norm. The recession had far-reaching effects on the hospitality industry and today the OTAs continue to gain market share at an uncomfortable pace. Let's take a look back to illustrate what we are referencing: Pre-recession, back in 2007, 85% of all online bookings came via brand.com (i.e. direct) vs. 15% through the OTA channel (85:15 ...
Industry Expert Jeff Zabin and Agilysys to Deliver Timely Webinar on Next-Generation PMS Technology
Agilysys | October 15, 2015
Webinar to Address Benefits, Purchasing Considerations, Success Stories and More ALPHARETTA, GA. — Oct. 15, 2015 — Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that it is partnering with hospitality benchmarking expert Jeff Zabin to deliver a webinar on selecting a next-generation property management system (PMS) on Tuesday, Oct. 20, from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EST. The groundbreaking session will address how hotels, resorts and casinos can boost efficiency, enhance service and create loyalty with guest-facing next-generation technology. We...
SHR Launches Blended Rates Functionality within WindsurferCRS
SHR | October 15, 2015
HOUSTON, TX, October 15, 2015– SHR, an innovative provider of advanced distribution technology and services for the hospitality industry, today announced they have launched blended rates functionality within their proprietary WindsurferCRS. "At SHR, we saw the need for blended rates in the CRS so hotels can launch more flexible promotions and avoid denial scenarios," says Estella Hale, VP of Products for SHR. "We are continuously innovating to provide the best technology possible to hoteliers, and we believe the added functionality of blended rates to WindsurferCRS is another step in this direction." The blended rates functionalit...
ACME Hotel Gets Hip to Best-in-Class Revenue Management with IDeaS
ACME Hotel Company | October 15, 2015
Tech savvy boutique hotel sends spreadsheets packing MINNEAPOLIS – October 15, 2015 – IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of revenue management software solutions and advisory services, announced today it has partnered with the ACME Hotel Company to improve demand forecasting and revenue performance with IDeaS Revenue Management System (RMS). A one-of-a-kind hotel property in downtown Chicago, ACME Hotel is located in the River North district, home to hundreds of the city's most in-demand restaurants, nightspots and attractions. In this highly competitive environment, ACME takes a unique approach to attracting new ...
BirchStreet and HotSOS Partner to Create a Cloud to Cloud Integration
BirchStreet Systems | October 14, 2015
Portsmouth, NH and Newport Beach, CA, October 15, 2015 – HotSOS®, a Newmarket® hotel service optimization solution, has partnered with BirchStreet Systems, the leading cloud based procure-to-pay platform in the hospitality industry. BirchStreet's Inventory Control module integrates directly into HotSOS so customers can report, track and cost perpetual inventory at any number of inventory locations within the property. Together, the integration allows HotSOS technology to monitor maintenance and operations while BirchStreet allows customers to track inventory parts, monitor par levels and reorder items through its procure-t...
Aptech to Provide Budget/Forecast Leadership Session
Aptech Computer Systems, Inc. | October 14, 2015
Prophix Taps Aptech to Present Hospitality Industry Budgeting and Forecasting Session Pittsburgh, PA – October 14, 2015 – Aptech Computer Systems announce that on October 15 it will provide a thought leadership session on Hospitality Budgeting and Forecasting for international Corporate Performance Management (CPM) leader Prophix. Aptech is the leading provider of hospitality software for business intelligence, budgeting/forecasting, and enterprise financial accounting. Prophix serves more than 2600 companies in 92 countries with its CPM software that automates important financial and operational processes that reduce risks ...
Jetaport Picks DHISCO to Power its Group Booking Site
DHISCO Inc. | October 14, 2015
DALLAS (Oct. 14, 2015) – Jetaport, a booking technology and marketplace that provides discounted group hotel reservations, is partnering with DHISCO Inc., the world's leading hospitality distribution company, to expand its offerings. Jetaport said the collaboration gives its customers access to the broadest selection of reliable bookings at the best possible rates. "We are evolving our product to provide the best seamless group hotel booking experience by launching additional supply connectivity through DHISCO," said Jason D. Shames, Jetaport co-founder and CEO. "DHISCO's broad hotel base provides access to the properties...
