The Mews Blog

Industry trends 7 May 2018

No More Manual Reporting

Quick read - Reports shouldn’t have to be produced manually nor should you have to wait to be able to access them. It’s 2018 and with a modern PMS you can get real time...

Industry trends 13 Apr 2018

How to Embrace Negative Feedback at your Hotel

Quick read - Research shows the effect of reviews on hotel conversion rates and pricing is massive with travellers four times more likely to...

Technology 28 Mar 2018

Why Open Platforms Do It Better

Quick read - A closed one-stop-shop PMS is fundamentally limited, doomed to inefficiency and, ultimately, more costly (hidden interface fees...

Product 2 Mar 2018

The New Mews Operator: your reception kiosk on steroids!

At Mews we have long been obsessed with ensuring hotel guests never have to wait and, with the launch of the Mews Operator, we are taking a...

Industry trends 1 Mar 2018

An Open Letter to the OTAs : are you the dinosaurs now?

Dear OTAs, As ex-hoteliers that first used your platforms when you were young startups much like we are today, we recognise that you once...

Product 22 Feb 2018

Boosting Yield with Mews and Hotel Scienz

We are excited to announce that Mews Systems and Xotels are collaborating to make revenue management great again! Xotel’s Hotel Scienz ...

Industry trends 2 Feb 2018

GDPR - a Blessing in Disguise

What is GDPR? In a nutshell, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is all about your guests’ privacy rights. Importantly, it is not...

Company 2 Jan 2018

Ruben Westmeijer Joins Mews as Director of Partnerships

Mews Systems has expanded its core team with the appointment of Ruben Westmeijer as Director of Partnerships. Working closely with the senior...

Industry trends 21 Dec 2017

Modern Accounting for Modern Hotels

In the hospitality industry, accounting is often one of the most technologically antiquated departments. Stacks of invoices and labour...

Company 13 Dec 2017

The Best of 2017

As 2017 comes to a close we wanted to look back and reflect on our fifth year at Mews and how far we have come in our mission to change the...

Industry trends 4 Dec 2017

How to Find the Right Price

90 percent of the world’s properties still don’t use a proper hotel rate management software despite the potential revenue uplift it could...

Technology 17 Nov 2017

All you need to know about hotel door locks

Key integrations Door locks are some of the oldest - and worst - technologies used in the hotel industry today. Furthermore, the hardware can be...

Technology 1 Nov 2017

Key Takeaways from the Hotel Technology Revolution Forum

Last month, the great and the good of the hotel tech industry gathered in Amsterdam to discuss the future of hospitality technology and the...

Industry trends 11 Sep 2017

How Hotels and Hostels can Supercharge Direct Bookings

The reality within the hotel industry is that online travel agencies (OTAs) are increasingly favoured by travellers who would rather have one...

Industry trends 22 Aug 2017

Personalization: the future of the hotel experience for the on-demand generation

At the recent Hotels.com conference in San Francisco, world renowned futurist Dr James Canton presented his anticipated blue-sky Hotels of the...

Industry trends 27 Jul 2017

Why Saving the Planet with Free Pizza is the Modern Way of Upselling

We have invited Erik from Oaky to write a guest-blog. We have seen a tremendous interest in their product in the last weeks since they went...

Product 17 Jul 2017

Mews and Oaky are Transforming the Way Hotels Serve Millennial Travellers

Today’s travellers are accustomed to receiving a more personalised and on-demand experience. They now expect that their accommodation...

Company 3 Feb 2017

Designing a Modern PMS for the Modern Hotelier

We have a bit of a joke in the office as one of the first videos that we ever produced started with my droning voice and the above phrase. We...

Technology 31 Jan 2017

The trouble with being an Oracle and why the move to a cloud mindset is always..

This week I read THIS blogpost, written by a hotelier about his frustrations with the industry’s leading Property Management Solution. What I...

Company 3 Jan 2017

Offering a 90s Guest Experience to your Guests in 2017

Last week I checked into one of Europe’s most forward-thinking luxury boutique hotel brands. Being a hotelier myself, I am always on the...

Company 12 Dec 2016

People of Mews - introducing Ilse, Director of Operations

After many years of trying, we finally convinced Ilse to leave her steady career at Sabre and come strengthen the Mews team with her talents....

Company 25 Nov 2016

Mews Systems Raises €1.5m to Accelerate and Innovate Hotel Management

Amsterdam, 22 November 2016: Mews Systems announces that it has successfully raised a 1.5m EUR investment from Axivate Capital, to help...

Technology 14 Nov 2016

“Let’s ignore mobile - what’s the worst that can happen?”

So, the title is a little misleading, really. It’s not a real quote, but it seems to me to describe the state of mind of most of those that we...

Industry trends 19 Oct 2016

7 Changes to Make an Instant Improvement Across Every Department

As a general manager, every decision you make is scrutinised by your staff, and so being a leader requires you to affect every department in...

Industry trends 29 Sep 2016

The hidden rising costs of OTAs

Hotels are paying the price for inadequate security, and largely further enriching the OTAs in the process. We would like to expose one of...

Company 29 Aug 2016

Defying the odds – the insanity of building your own PMS

Richard and I met each other 6 years ago at a Czech Fashion Show, where they were presenting last season’s collection to a crowd of hipsters,...

Technology 15 Aug 2016

​A Painless PMS Switch – Dream or Reality?

Back when I was 25, I worked as the Front Office Manager at the Hilton Prague, a monster hotel of 800 bedrooms with a front office team of 65...

Industry trends 22 Jul 2016

Overcoming the Challenges of Revenue Management in Hostels

Hands up anyone, who knew what they wanted to do after leaving school? Like most people I didn’t really know what to study or which career...

Product 12 Jul 2016

We Upgraded our Booking Engine. You Won't Believe What Happened Next

When I first started coming to hotel conferences, I was always taken aback by how many exhibiting companies promised to drive direct sales,...

Industry trends 6 Jun 2016

How Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor are helping hotels drive more direct..

Let’s be honest, if you’ve visited the Internet lately, it’s not hard to find AdWords ads from Booking.com, Expedia or TripAdvisor. Big...