Category: Hospitality Technology

The Impact of Reviews on Booking Behavior and Reputation reveals what matters most to travelers who read reviews, what prompts guests to write reviews and their expectations around the hotels’ responses to their feedback.

If Covid-19 has clarified anything about the importance of meetings and conferences, it’s this: Virtual events are vital and cost-saving, especially when travel is out of the question. But nothing can replace the value of in-person contact

At a recent industry conference, Marriott International CEO Tony Capuano spoke bluntly about one of the biggest crises facing hospitality: 20 percent of employees in travel and tourism globally have left the segment permanently.

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More tech antitrust activity: Spain’s competition watchdog has opened an investigation into potential anti-competitive behavior by the Dutch online travel agency giant, Booking.com, following a couple of complaints lodged by the Spanish Association of Hotel Managers and the Regional Hotel Association of Madrid.

For hoteliers, the process of minimizing waste, conserving natural resources, and making less of a ‘footprint’ on the planet amounts to more than just doing the right thing. It’s essential for business success, especially when there’s such a priority to recapture revenue in a post-pandemic marketplace. In other words, going green is taking on a whole new meaning – as in improving sales and profitability.

Proprietary hotel technology, for many years, has remained the domain of global chains. Only they possessed large, in-house development teams that could design custom-built solutions addressing their specific business needs. But marketplace changes, heightened by the COVID chaos of the past two years, have fundamentally altered the nature of hotel tech development.

Experiences strong recovery and expansion in online bookings

Spoiler alert: if you are looking for a quick answer to this Shakespearean-like question, you will not find it. As a matter of fact, you are probably going to walk away from this post with more questions than answers. But this is to be expected. Who said migrating data in hospitality is an easy topic, right?

After enduring the brunt of a global pandemic for nearly two years, it’s no surprise that hoteliers evaluating new technology solutions will ask: ‘Will this future-proof my business?’