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RFPAssist Continues to Deliver Wedding and Room Block Leads to Hotels
Lodging Interactive and Commingle:Engage | June 8, 2020
PARSIPPANY, NJ - June 08, 2020 - Lodging Interactive, a full-service digital marketing, social media engagement, and reputation management agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry, said hotel customers are experiencing a pent-up demand in wedding related RFP submissions through its RFPAssist Messenger service. “In the past two weeks we have seen a lift in wedding related RFP submissions for this fall and 2021,” stated DJ Vallauri, Lodging Interactive’s Founder, President and CEO. “While RFP volumes are not at the same levels as pre-COVID, it’s an encouraging sign of recovery.” RFPAssist is a proprietary Facebo...
IDeaS and SIHOT Expand Partnership to Provide Seamless Two-Way Data Integration for Hoteliers
IDeaS | June 4, 2020
Long-term partnership optimizes revenue for all hotels and room types and delivers increased operational effectiveness through automated pricing decisions LONDON—June 4, 2020—IDeaS, the leader in revenue management solutions, announced today a new technology integration with SIHOT. The two-way data integration between IDeaS’ revenue management solutions and SIHOT’s leading property management software, SIHOT.PMS, will help the global hotel industry accurately forecast business demand, maximize occupancy and ADR and increase overall operational effectiveness through automated pricing decisions. Increases revenue, productivity a...
Cloud5 Announces Webinar Series to Help Hoteliers Leverage Technology Post-COVID-19
Cloud5 Communications | June 3, 2020
Session 1: The New Dawn of IoT in the COVID-19 World, June 10 at 1PM ET June 3, 2020 - Mass adoption of IoT has been expected for many years with some hospitality brand leaders very bullish on their predictions despite several years of deployment and support challenges. Now that COVID-19 is fundamentally changing our industry and the application of technology, hoteliers need trouble-free solutions. This webinar will look at how IoT can help hotels operate more efficiently and deliver on guest ever-changing expectations in the new normal. Join us on a journey from quarantine to innovation. clique What the state of IoT is today for hospit...
Maestro PMS Announces Webinars to Guide Operators and Hoteliers Toward a Touchless Guest Journey
Maestro PMS | June 2, 2020
Free 1-hour Webinars Will Be Held Tuesday June 16, 2020 at 1pmET and June 17 at 11amET June 2, 2020 – Maestro PMS will host free 1-hour webinars Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 1pm ET and June 17 at 11am ET. Operators and hoteliers will learn what mobile, online and touchless tools are available in the Maestro PMS system that support an overall property strategy for a more touchless guest experience. Anyone may attend. The Maestro Touchless Guest Journey and Mobile Tools support a safer guest engagement process. Click here to register for June 16. Please click here to register for June 17. “Maestro’s webinar will focus on creating a pro...
Hotel Internet Services Supports Enhanced Guest Safety Initiatives by Providing Hoteliers With Insight on Latest in Contactless Technology Best Practi
Hotel Internet Services, Inc. | June 2, 2020
Leading provider of in-room connectivity technologies partnering with hoteliers to ensure their ability to reduce surface contact risks while enhancing social distancing abilities. CLEARWATER, Fla. — June 2, 2020 — Hotel Internet Services (HIS), a full-service provider of internet services and solutions for the hospitality industry, has announced its strengthening of efforts to ensure that hoteliers are able to cater to guest health concerns by working with properties to increase the availability of contactless and social distancing compatible in-room services. By leveraging its expertise in comprehensive guestroom television-based ser...
With Clairvoyix, Hotels Can Direct Market to Their Meeting Planners and They will NOT Have a Payment Due Until 2021
Clairvoyix | May 27, 2020
Clairvoyix extends their successful Rapid Recovery Response program to help hotels and resorts when and how they need it most. LAS VEGAS, NV (May 27, 2020) – Clairvoyix, the leader in enterprise class, hospitality-specific marketing automation, announces their latest program designed to give hotels and resorts who are ready to market to groups some much needed financial relief. The Clairvoyix Rapid Recovery Response – R3© solution is being extended to address the problem of marketing to meeting planners that may not want to book until the fourth quarter of 2020 or even into 2021. “We recognize that many hotels and resorts have h...
Cendyn and DerbySoft Collaborate to Provide Hoteliers With Advanced Metasearch Capabilities
Cendyn | May 27, 2020
Collaboration makes it possible for hoteliers to leverage AI to address the complexities in the metasearch marketplace. Wednesday, May 27, 2020 – Boca Raton, FL – Cendyn, the leading innovator in CRM, digital marketing, sales, and revenue strategy for the hospitality industry, announced today a collaboration with DerbySoft, a distribution and digital marketing services platform focused across the hospitality sector. This collaboration will provide hoteliers with the means to use the smartest artificial intelligence (AI) in the industry to power their metasearch advertising. Collaborations between hospitality technology specialists ...
Team Duetto Wins Global All-Woman Virtual Hackathon
Duetto | May 21, 2020
San Francisco, May 21, 2020 — A group of five female tech engineers from Duetto recently won first place in the Women Hack the Crisis Global All-Women Virtual Hackathon event, with their Hotel Haven concept. Hotel Haven is designed to help provide a temporary home away from home for those in need due to COVID-19 with a platform enabling companies and donors to “Gift a Room” to those most in need. Hotels can sign up to have their availability shown on the site, individuals can sign up if they need support, and donors can “gift" rooms to individuals in their geographical area. “Inspired by our customers, Hotel Haven helps connect ho...
Lodging Interactive Launches HotelSiteXPRESS Affordable Website Design and Marketing
Lodging Interactive and Commingle:Engage | May 21, 2020
PARSIPPANY, NJ - May 21, 2020 - Lodging Interactive, a full-service digital marketing, social media engagement, and reputation management agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry, today announced the launch of its HotelSiteXPRESS website design and development service. HotelSiteXPRESS provides hotels with an affordable option for new website development, hosting, SEO, and management. “We wanted to provide an economical way for smaller properties to benefit from having an updated, modern and fully mobile-enabled website to ultimately allow them to better compete within their competitive set,” said DJ Vallauri, Lodging Interac...
React Mobile Vying for HTNG’s 2020 TechOvation Award
React Mobile | May 20, 2020
The leading provider of employee panic buttons for hotels is one of 10 semi-finalists looking to be named the ‘most innovative hotel technology of the year’ Seattle, May 20, 2020 — As an HTNG 2020 TechOvation Award Semi-Finalist, React Mobile will present its best-in-class safety platform tomorrow to a panel of judges looking to name hospitality’s “most innovative technology of the year.” The global leader of panic button solutions for hotels is vying against nine other technology companies in the second round of this annual competition. Judges will select the top three finalists and online audience interaction will choose the...
Knowland Launches Free Interactive COVID-19 Hotel Recovery Dashboard
Knowland | May 20, 2020
Advanced analytics for local market and property level data allows hotels to assess competitive position and jumpstart recovery ARLINGTON, Va. — May 20, 2020—Knowland, the leader in group hospitality analytics for hotels, convention and visitor bureaus, conference centers and other meeting venues, announced today a free interactive dashboard providing actionable insights on COVID-19 hotel recovery. These insights will enable hoteliers to see their position in the rebound compared to local and/or national markets and make informed decisions to accelerate recovery. Knowland is providing free unlimited access to the Dashboard from the Kno...
Doing More With Less, How Hospitality Management Teams Take Advantage of Touchless Technologies Now
Maestro PMS | May 19, 2020
Preparing to Increase Productivity and Guest Safety in The New Hotel Landscape May 19, 2020 – Properties are working with minimal staff to keep the doors open during today’s slow down; but what about tomorrow? Travel will quickly ramp up as CV-19 restrictions are lifted. Many operators are preparing for the restart now, implementing technologies, hotel software, and processes that will support social distancing guidelines and enable more efficient operations as staffing levels slowly return to meet higher occupancy demands. “Post-CV-19 hotel operations will be about doing more with less and honoring regional social distancing guid...
Canary Technologies Delivers Contactless Check-In When Hotels Need It Most
Canary Technologies | May 18, 2020
Silicon Valley hospitality innovator looks to the future, launches contactless check-In solution to help hoteliers safely and immediately welcome guests. SAN FRANCISCO / NEW YORK, May 18, 2020 – Canary Technologies–which provides solutions to some of the world’s largest hotel brands, management companies and ownership groups–has launched Contactless Check-In™, a solution that hoteliers can implement immediately to welcome guests while adhering to social-distancing guidelines. As COVID-19 took its toll on the hospitality industry, Canary’s leadership assembled its agile engineering and development teams to solve hospitality...
RFID Hotel and LAS Hospitality Supply Address Updated Hotel Environment Standards With Introduction of Antimicrobial Key Card Technology
Lodging Access Systems (LAS) | May 18, 2020
Patented innovation capable of inhibiting up to 99.99 percent of virus and bacteria growth on key card surfaces and available to hoteliers throughout the US. Tampa, Fla. – (May 18, 2020) – Lodging Access Systems, a company that provides thousands of hotels globally with a full spectrum of key cards and credentials through its subsidiaries, RFID Hotel and LAS Hospitality Supply, has announced that it has acquired the exclusive right and license to manufacture and distribute a patented and proprietary antimicrobial plastic key card to hotels and resorts in the United States. These key cards contain New Antimicrobial Layer (NAML) techn...
INTELITY and JOINGO Partner to Drive Contactless Engagement for Casino-Resorts
INTELITY | May 7, 2020
The two industry leaders team up to help gaming resorts minimize physical touch while maximizing guest engagement Los Angeles, CA (May 7, 2020) - INTELITY®, the provider of the travel industry’s most comprehensive guest engagement and staff management platform, announced today a new partnership with JOINGO, a leading-edge mobile technology provider for the gaming industry. The integration streamlines and connects every part of the casino-resort experience, empowering properties to future-proof their business by limiting physical contact while still engaging visitors as both a guest and player. “The value of creating seamless, touch...
How to Leverage Technology to Protect Guests, Reduce Expenses, Optimize Revenue, and Take a Deep Breath
Maestro PMS | May 5, 2020
What Projects Have You Placed on The Back Burner Until Occupancy was Down? Handle Them Now During The Downturn May 5, 2020 – Travel is impacted globally by current health concerns. Occupancy is down, but in time, our industry will recover. For now, there are important things hoteliers can do to address the public’s concern over hygiene and personal contact, and many of them include technology. This period of lower demand is also an ideal time to look at your business and handle projects that may be on the back burner. Guest safety is paramount, so be ready to tell guests the steps your property is taking to protect their health. Bui...
SalesAndCatering.com Working Closely With Clients to Prepare for A New Future in Hospitality
SalesAndCatering.com, LLC | April 28, 2020
Operators Plan How to Power Up Properties – and the Industry – for the Travel Restart. Where to Re-Tool, Reevaluate, and Re-Shape Processes and Systems MOUNT PLEASANT, SC, April 28, 2020 – This will not last forever. The travel re-start will call for the same resources and experience required for a new-property opening, but now we are reopening the entire hospitality industry, and we’re doing it in a world that has been drastically re-shaped. Every hotel company, property, manager, employee, and vendor is in this together. “Many sectors are ready to get back to business. Corporate events and social gatherings are on hold, but ...
Vizergy Launches New Brand Website for Hard Rock International: Focusing on Customer Engagement While Elevating the Hard Rock Experience
Vizergy Digital Marketing | April 23, 2020
Hard Rock has partnered with Vizergy Digital Marketing to launch an innovative new website site that seeks to keep customers engaged with the brand and create awareness with creative functionality and a world class user experience. Having a deep understanding of their customers’ needs, Hard Rock has developed an online platform that caters to a variety of desired experiences, from mobile games for kids, to interactive casino gaming for adults. The Hard Rock team is continuing to find innovative ways to provide their loyal guests with Hard Rock experiences, highlighting their hotels and resorts, cafes, music venues and casinos. Want to...
Knowland Extends Platform With Premium Contact Data to Help Hoteliers Prepare and Reignite Sales Teams for Recovery
Knowland | April 15, 2020
Leader in hotel group insights & analytics adds key intelligence to help its customers build relationships that will drive revenue rebound post-COVID-19 WASHINGTON, DC. — April 15, 2020 — Knowland announced today the release of Premium Contact Data (PCD), an add-on to its subscription-based hotel group sales software platform providing verified contact data with event booking history. As the leader in hospitality group business analytics for hotels, convention and visitor bureaus, conference centers and other meeting venues, the company provides comprehensive group data intelligence to drive higher revenue and provide greater val...
commingle:engage Offers Free Direct Messaging Services to Capture Future Hotel Bookings
Lodging Interactive | April 15, 2020
PARSIPPANY, NJ - April 15, 2020 - commingle:engage, by Lodging Interactive, the hospitality industry's premier provider of full-service social media marketing and guest reputation management services is helping hotels maximize their direct-to-consumer relationships through its RFPAssist Conversational Marketing Service. In efforts to further support the hospitality industry, the service is being offered at no charge to hotels through the end of 2020. “With Dr. Fauci stating that parts of the country may soon start to open up, it’s never too early for properties to start planning for the industry’s recovery,” stated...
PhoneSuite Selects the Clairvoyix Rapid Recovery Response – R3© Email Solution for Important Client Communications
PhoneSuite | April 14, 2020
Hospitality industry’s leading enterprise class marketing automation company partners with PhoneSuite, the premier provider of communication technology to the hospitality industry. LAS VEGAS, NV (April 14, 2020) – Clairvoyix, the leader in enterprise class, hospitality-specific marketing automation, announces their Rapid Recovery Response – R3© solution has been selected by PhoneSuite to provide time sensitive communications to their customers and prospects. PhoneSuite recognizes that hoteliers are faced with unprecedented challenges during the pandemic crisis, including the need to cut expenses without cutting mission critical oper...
Makeready Ensures Rapid Company Expansion With Adoption of ProfitSword Data Management Solutions
ProfitSword, LLC | April 14, 2020
Hotel, restaurant and retail management company implements ProfitSage and ProfitPlan to streamline new acquisition abilities and ensure swift responses to variations in market performance. DALLAS – (April 14, 2020) – ProfitSword, hospitality’s premier developer of business intelligence and data integration software, has been selected by Makeready to maximize its potential in rapidly acquiring new properties and ensuring that they are seamlessly incorporated into the company’s portfolio with the implementation of ProfitSage and ProfitPlan. A management company renowned for its reputation in delivering local and unique experiences at...
How Well You Communicate With Employees During a Crisis Will Determine a Hotel’s Reopening Success
Beekeeper | April 8, 2020
By Andrada Paraschiv In just three months, the coronavirus spread from Wuhan, China, to every corner of the world. Everyone is affected by this global pandemic, and few industries have been as negatively impacted as hospitality and travel. As in any crisis, communication with employees is essential. With hotels closing daily and workers being furloughed, hoteliers are quickly realizing that they do not have effective communication processes in place to stay connected with their valued workforces. Although hotel companies are working diligently to triage this crisis the best they can, each are facing limitations. But there is some good news...
Hotel Caza Opens Its Doors With a Priority on Meeting Guest Wi-Fi Expectations by Partnering With Hotel Internet Services
Hotel Internet Services, Inc. | April 7, 2020
Newly constructed San Francisco property ensures its ability to fully cater to any online need by leveraging HIS’ industry-leading expertise, technology and support. SAN FRANCISCO — April 7, 2020 — Hotel Internet Services (HIS), a full-service provider of internet services and solutions for the hospitality industry, has announced the successful implementation of a cutting-edge guest Wi-Fi network at Hotel Caza. A new property located within San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Warf, Hotel Caza serves as the ultimate family-friendly destination, providing visitors with an array of entertaining amenities and nearby attractions to choo...
