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 your likes and dislikes. You'd… Continue Reading 4 Ways to Help Boost your Brand with Hotel PMS Guest Profiles
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 loyalty. Advanced Integrations Connections… Continue Reading Creating an Exceptional Guest Experience
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. Problem number one: Online… Continue Reading The Future of Distribution Management (Part 1 of 2)
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 platform, interoperability, data integration and… Continue Reading Integrating Hotel Technology and Improving Operations – Part 6
Customer service, especially during the busy season, is crucial to the success of any hotel. Today there are more ways than ever to attract guests, however it is essential that hoteliers don't lose sight of customer service best practices. We've compiled the following 8 proven practices that are sure to help your staff woo… Continue Reading 8 Tried & True Best Practices In Hotel Customer Service
We all remember the massive credit card breaches at well-known national retailers over the last few years. These breaches were a public relations, financial, and legal nightmare, resulting in millions of dollars in lost sales and possible long-term brand damage. From a hospitality point of view, simply hoping that your hotel won’t be affected is… Continue Reading Help Improve Guest Security with Cloud-Based PMS Software
On one particular business trip, Bob stayed in four different cities in one week, all at various versions of a well-known hotel chain. Upon his first check-in, he was automatically handed a cookie “for being a loyal guest.” Bob felt special. But by the fourth check-in, the cookie bit was getting old. And everyone was… Continue Reading Beyond the Cookie: Loyalty Programs for your Bottom Line
Are hotels and OTAs friends or foes? While they do rely on each other to compete in the hospitality marketspace, they’ve been waging an epic battle recently to win over guests. With both hotels and OTAs vying to control and evolve the guest experience, time will tell who will come out on top. Why hotels… Continue Reading Hotels, OTAs, and the Battle to Win Guests
Deciding which hotel rooms are allocated to guests upon check-in can be a delicate and demanding juggling act. After all, the hotel’s primary job is to ensure complete satisfaction, regardless of varying guest demands and outside influences. Yet with the right cloud-based hotel PMS software at their disposal, hotel staff can have a few tricks… Continue Reading Always Make Room for Your Guest With the Right Hotel PMS
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