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4 Ways to Help Boost your Brand with Hotel PMS Guest Profiles

When you're out for the evening and run into a friend or acquaintance, you have certain expectations. You would expect them to recognize you, remember your name, and interact with you based upon information they have gathered about you during previous interactions such as your family or friends' names and [...]

Por |abril 26th, 2019|Categorías: Hospitality Industry Trends|Etiquetas: |

Creating an Exceptional Guest Experience

With an influx of best-in-class integrations and new and improved technology coming to the forefront each year, hotels are able to elevate the guest experience. By engaging with guests before, during and after their stay, hoteliers can create a memorable experience that can help drive repeat visitors and increases brand [...]

Por |abril 12th, 2019|Categorías: Guest Loyalty|Etiquetas: , |

How to Improve Efficiency & Profitability

Minimizing operating costs while continuing to maximize property performance is something every hotelier aims to achieve. One way to impact a hotel’s bottom line is to switch to a cloud-based property management system. Identifying the operational areas that would benefit most from a 100% cloud-based system are one of the [...]

Por |febrero 19th, 2019|Categorías: Cloud-based PMS|Etiquetas: , , , |

Hotel Industry Trends: 2019

What’s Trending this Year Coming off the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this month, it is hard not to think about what is in store for hospitality in the future. With concepts such as the ‘Autonomous Travel Suite’, a self-driving sleeper van portrayed as a hotel room on wheels, we can [...]

Por |febrero 15th, 2019|Categorías: Hospitality Industry Trends|Etiquetas: , |

The Future of Distribution Management (Part 2 of 2)

Key Problems One of the biggest challenges to a hotelier’s bottom line is guest acquisition costs. As we discussed in part 1, the dominance of third-party online travel agency (OTA) sites has reinvented how many customers choose to book rooms. Yet, many hoteliers are still seeking to wean themselves [...]

The Future of Distribution Management (Part 1 of 2)

More Efficiency It’s all about control. That is, regaining pricing power within the hospitality sector by using better, smarter, more efficient technology. For a long time, it was an exercise in futility, but these days the rise of cloud computing is making it a reality thanks to next-generation hotel software. [...]

Have a Happier Holiday & Increase your Bottom Line

The Time is Now to Maximize Holiday Income for your Hotel Just last month, AAA reported travel volume for Thanksgiving was the highest since 2005. Nearly 50 million people traveled more than 50 miles for the holiday.   That’s right, even more people are traveling in 2018 than during the [...]

The Newest Iteration of Rate Management – Part 8

Be Open with your Rate Management Being flexible with rate management allows hoteliers to think in creative ways that can make hotels more money. The newest iteration of revenue management; understanding the total value of the customer rather than just what they pay on rate.   Time for a quick [...]

Por |diciembre 7th, 2018|Categorías: Revenue Management, Rate Management|Etiquetas: , , |

Technology Ruled During HX: Hotel Experience

HX 2018 If it’s November it must be New York. That’s because the largest hotel industry tradeshow and conference on the east coast took place on November 11th and 12th at the world-famous Jacob Javits Convention Center.   Here HX: Hotel Experience and its design brethren, BDNY attracted more than [...]

Being Flexible with your Rate Management – Part 7

It’s time to cozy up to the BAR That’s Best Available Rate, of course, and by focusing a revenue management strategy around Best Available Rate, hoteliers are successfully pushing the average rate charged per room by more accurately leveraging the all-powerful supply vs. demand equation.   However, to fully maximize [...]

Por |noviembre 16th, 2018|Categorías: Revenue Management, Rate Management|Etiquetas: , , , |

Integrating Hotel Technology and Improving Operations – Part 6

Guest Loyalty is Essential More than ever, creating loyalty through guest experience is essential to a hotel’s success formula. Without it, hospitality interlopers like alternative accommodation sites have potential to chip away at a property’s business mix, slowly eroding not just loyalty, but profits too.   When a hotel operations [...]

Por |noviembre 9th, 2018|Categorías: Guest Loyalty|Etiquetas: , , |

Integrating Hotel Technology and Improving Operations – Part 5

Be warned, there’s a new sheriff in town: Data integration. Without it and its like-minded cousin technology interoperability – the notion that computer systems can seamlessly connect and communicate with one another -- maximizing a hotel’s profitability in the modern era is near impossible, archaic and frustrating.   Before cloud-computing [...]

Por |noviembre 2nd, 2018|Categorías: Hospitality Industry Trends|Etiquetas: , , , |

Operating Your Hotel Anytime from Anywhere – Part 4

Things are Changing Not only are the way hotels managed changing, but so is its workforce. These days millennials rule, and they expect the systems they utilize to match the technologies they’re familiar with.   Did you know? 35% of people working in America are millennials? They’re now the largest [...]

Por |octubre 26th, 2018|Categorías: Cloud-based PMS|Etiquetas: , , , , |

The Cloud is Changing Everything for Hotel Management – Part 3

The future is now. Well, at least for hoteliers fully embracing cloud-based solutions. Savvy business operators realize a hotel operations platform powered by cloud-computing is fueling the hotel industry to increased efficiency, more satisfied employees and heightened profitability. Sorry legacy systems, but a new breed of hotel property management systems [...]

Por |octubre 19th, 2018|Categorías: Cloud-based PMS|Etiquetas: , , , , |

Industry Podcasting Redefining Hospitality Events

Popular Podcasting Podcasting has hit the mainstream, and in the hospitality industry it’s quickly become the way people love to learn while working out, walking the family dog, or heading to or from work. SkyTouch Technology, along with other hospitality tech partners, recently hosted an evening dedicated to this exciting [...]

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