As the summer season rapidly approaches, hotels around the world are gearing up to welcome eager travelers in search of a blissful escape. With travel demand on the rise, it’s crucial for hotels to embrace creative marketing techniques that captivate potential guests and motivate them to book directly.
Spring Cleaning: Why Hotels Are Investing in New PMS Systems in 2023
Operators raise technology budgets to capitalize on new innovations and better service
HCN Bringing NEW In-Room Tablet with Modern UI and Mobile Phone Mirroring to HITEC Toronto
Next week at HITEC® Toronto, Hotel Communication Network will showcase its re-engineered in-room tablet with two-way guest communications at the core. The NEW Navigator 2.0 gives guests and staff more control over the stay experience. Guests have everything they need from individual/group messaging, food ordering, check out, and service requests to choosing when they want their rooms clean, where they want food delivered onsite, and how they can explore the local community. Navigator 2.0 with real-time language translation makes two-way communication effortless and operators can easily update and self-manage content as often as needed throughout the day.
Maestro PMS Enables Secure Online Payments with Integration to TransForm by b4
Maestro PMS is making hotel payments easier than ever, thanks to the recent integration with b4’s online payment platform, TransForm. TransForm helps hotels fight fraud and win more chargebacks by ensuring raw credit card data stays hidden from everyone except the cardholder. By passing encrypted credit card data directly into the correct Maestro PMS ledger, hoteliers and their customers benefit from a process that is both more efficient and more secure.
Curator Hotel & Resort Collection selects Oaky as a preferred upselling tool for member properties
Oaky and Curator join forces to elevate the guest experience while maximizing cost efficiency for Collection members.
HiJiffy raises €3.8M, aims to lead in the UK and expand to Germany
The successful funding round will enable HiJiffy to expand its team from 30 to more than 50 employees and launch a new product that promises to revolutionise the way hotels interact with their guests.
Sojern announces platform enhancements to AI-powered audiences
Sojern has leveraged its long-standing AI capabilities to provide expanded support for more than 10,000 travel marketers annually. Customers include hotels and resorts of all sizes, destinations, attractions and airlines.
How to leverage Big Data and outshine the OTAs
In this White Paper, we take a look at the wider tech stack and examine why, it is, in many cases, ineffective in enabling hotels to access the power of Big Data and in turn, compete successfully against Online Travel Agents (OTAs). We start with the archetypal problem of multiple guest profiles within the IT stack and why this will inevitably lead to a digital dead end for hotels.
Maestro All-In-One PMS to showcase an array of NEW Solutions and Enhancements at HITEC Toronto
This month at HITEC® Toronto, Maestro PMS will showcase the latest enhancements to its popular Web Browser based cloud and on-premises all-in-one PMS solution for independent hotels, luxury resorts, conference centers, vacation rentals, and multi-property groups. From mobile apps and mobile guest messaging to itinerary building and kiosk check in, the industry’s preferred provider of PMS solutions will display an array of NEW software tools and technologies in Booth 1225 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre June 27 to 29.
The GuestRevu GREAT Awards are seeking the GREATest hotel in 2023
Leading guest feedback and online reputation management solution GuestRevu and independent academic partner Stenden Univeristy South Africa, are excited to announce entries are now open for the GuestRevu GREAT Awards – celebrating hotels that deliver Guest-Rated Excellence in Accommodation & Travel. The awards will run from June through to the end of September with winners being announced in November 2023.
