Technology

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Property Groups Leverage Maestro PMS' Sophistication at Award Winning Luxury and Full-Service Independents

SiteMinder today reveals its annual lists of the distribution channels that brought the highest booking revenue to hotels over the past year. Varying across 20 of the world’s top tourism destinations, the lists reveal the fast-growing successes of both direct booking strategies for hotels and the growth strategies of the travel industry’s consolidation-hungry giants.

It’s the universal travel faux pas: You arrive at a hotel, receive your luggage from the bellboy, reach into your pockets, scour your wallet, and turn up … nothing. Or, perhaps worse, a large-denomination bill you’re too embarrassed to ask them to break.

Around the world, hotels are learning to cope with change swiftly, reimagining their business with the help of modern platforms, collaborative technology partnerships, and informed processes. Amidst this period of technological reform, the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) had one, integral goal in mind: Transform hotel staff safety, for the better.

Every step you take, every move you make – technology is all around you. Especially in today’s hospitality business, where so many tech innovations pave the way to success, not relying on technology would definitely be counterproductive. But with so many different pieces of a puzzle, it can be hard to make sure that they all perfectly fit together and you have a clear overview of the bigger picture.

A Revenue increase by 10% with Hotelogix Enterprise-Grade Cloud PMS

Kokotel hotels onboarded Hotelogix PMS almost 2.5 years back with just one property, which was soon increased to 8. And the plan is to expand it to 20 soon. Since the time Kokotel hotels adopted this comprehensive solution from Hotelogix, they have witnessed multiple advantages, the two most important ones being real-time connectivity and centralized control.

techtalk.travel is a newly launched multimedia platform that connects hotel and travel professionals to make informed decisions about technology to future-proof their business.

Traveler behavior is constantly shifting and changing and when referring to business travelers, it’s important to consider that this is a very specific faction of the traveler demographic and it automatically comes with certain requirements and expectations. From the technical user experience that a website enables to company policies and the importance of displaying guest reviews, different strategies have to be considered by business travel websites, in order to encourage use and conversions.