Kiosks and mobile check-ins are all the craze right now in the hotel industry. So are chat bots and robot porters. But have hotel owners thought through the implications of this new technology? Hotels haven’t historically been known to be on the cutting edge of technology. But recently, a big push has come from all [...]
Hospitality Property Management Systems help hotel, motel, and resort managers coordinate everything from reservations and billing to marketing their property. With an estimated market size of several hundred million dollars, hospitality property management software helps to track maintenance requests and housekeeping schedules for a full-picture view of what’s going on across the entire facility. Below [...]
PCI compliance is a must for a property-management system. “Without it, it’s a nonstarter; don’t even consider that solution provider,” Skytouch Technology CEO Todd Davis said. Read full article here.
SkyTouch has promoted Doug Hogan to VP of business operations, global sales and marketing. In this expanded role, he’ll be responsible for leading business operations, financial planning and management, strategic planning, and global sales and marketing for SkyTouch Technology. Read full article here.
Running a hotel is a complicated job—from booking guests to managing employees, setting rates, and keeping track of all the systems that integrate with a hotel. That’s why a hotel Property Management System (PMS) is so important. It’s the brains of any hotel. Therefore, it’s critical to have answers to common hotel PMS questions. Read [...]
SkyTouch Technology expands its leadership team with key internal promotion PHOENIX, AZ— September 27, 2017 – SkyTouch Technology, a premier hotel property management system (PMS) provider, announces the promotion of Doug Hogan to Vice President Business Operations, Global Sales and Marketing. In this expanded role, Doug will be responsible for leading business operations, financial planning [...]
Shilo Inns, a mid-priced hotel chain operating 31 hotels predominantly on the West Coast, has partnered with SkyTouch Technology to install cloud-based SkyTouch Hotel OS. The SkyTouch Hotel OS will be implemented at corporate-owned locations as well as franchised locations, and many others are quickly switching to SkyTouch because of its easy-to-use platform, improved rate management and [...]
What level of IT experience is the employee of tomorrow expected to have? Is technology making it easier to connect with guests and travelers, or is it allowing them to side-step human interaction faster than operators can adapt? Are robots and automation going to take everyone’s jobs, rendering the entire discussion irrelevant? On a warm [...]
A property management system (PMS) is the heart and brains of a hotel. As technology improves, hotels often must re-assess their current technology to see if it stacks up to their needs and to the competition. A common example is switching from a premise-based PMS to a cloud-based system. But when looking for a new PMS, [...]
Todd Davis, Choice Hotels' chief information officer, who worked with Gorman to develop Choice Hotels' property-management system, said he has always seen a correlation between the management of single-family rentals, multifamily housing and hotels. He also heads SkyTouch Technology, a spinoff of Choice Hotels, which sells the platform to other hotel operators. Single-family rental companies are now interested [...]
