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Nine benefits of having a mobile app for a hotel chain
9 reasons why a hotel chain should have a mobile app With increased smartphone penetration across the world, the importance of mobile is increasing, and the hotel industry must be...
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What is the metaverse, and how does it affect the hotel industry?
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Eight key features for hotel housekeeping software
What features should the best hotel housekeeping software have? Because not all hotel housekeeping software is created equally, as a modern hotelier,
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What are the main features of front office software for a hotel?
Seven key features of a front office software No matter the size of your hotel, front office software is one of the investments you won’t regret. It...
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Why you should use online payment requests in your hotel
8 benefits of using online payment requests in your hotel With the help of technology, the lives of modern hoteliers can be simplified. Check out the
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Six benefits of managing online real time reservations in your hotel
Why should your hotel manage online real-time bookings? There are many reasons why your hotel should manage online real-time bookings, which we will...
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Types of hotel security data breaches and how to protect your property
What is a hotel data breach? A hotel data breach is essentially when the private information of guests and customers falls into the hands of the...
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Metasearch engines and how they work in the hospitality industry
What is a metasearch engine? A metasearch engine is a comparison tool used by travelers to compare rates across different hotels in a given...
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How to go contact-free without sacrificing the guest experience
Finding the balance: guest experience, installation cost and operational efficiency During and post-Covid, demands for hygiene and safety will be...
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The 8 best hotel sales tools to increase your property’s reservations
What hotel sales tools do you need to manage your business effectively? Managing your hotel business effectively depends a lot on the tools you use,...
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6 advantages of using a central reservation system (CRS)
What are the advantages of using a central reservation system? There are plenty of advantages to using a CRS that a hotelier can benefit from. The...
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8 advantages of self service kiosks for hotels
What are the advantages of self service check-in/out Kiosks? Better use of hotel resources To gain a customer’s loyalty, it’s vital to provide...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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