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Microsoft Partners With Oyo to Create AI Driven Hotel Tech

2021-09-10 by Aleksandr Shatskih

OYO

Microsoft and Oyo have signed a “multi-year strategic alliance” to develop new travel and hospitality technologies.

Tags: guest experience, hospitality tech, hotel AI, hotel tech, Internet of Things, IoT, Microsoft, Microsoft’s Azure IoT, Oyo

New Startups Fill Great Hospitality Hiring Void

2017-04-07 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Hiring made easy

Getting a leg up on hiring qualified people in the hospitality space, a couple of new startups are hoping to solve the problem of connecting skilled hospitality workers with the businesses that need them on-demand. Here’s a brief take on how apps and services are intersecting the hiring space too.

Tags: ACrew, AirBnb, Entrepreneur 20X (E20X), guest experience, Harri, HFTP, HITEC Amsterdam, hospitality, Housejoy, hyre, sharing economy, Squaddle

Thomas Cook Goes to “Go-To” Digital Gurus

2014-05-09 by Phil Butler

Kathryn Parsons

adds digital gurus from around the social/digital web to their advisory board. According to news from TravelMole, hiring marketing guru Remo Masala from Kuoni set the tone for TC’s ongoing upramp into digital.

Tags: Brandwatch, guest experience, Home Retail Group, Jo Hickson, Kathryn Parsons, marketing, metrics, OTA's, Remo Masala, social media, thomas cook

WIHP’s 2014 Marketing Bucket List

2014-01-03 by Aleksandr Shatskih

WIHP at ITB Berlin

2014 brings with a new year great new possibilities in every industry. Travel not being the least of these, World Independent Hotels Promotion (WIHP) just compiled a Slideshare bucket list of benchmark hotel and marketing items not to overlook. This will be one of those years technology provides a fast forward effect for competitiveness, and […]

Tags: BIng, guest experience, hotel marketing, hotels, marketing, Photosynth, WIHP

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