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Revitup.direct Cyprus Revenue Masterclass Winds Up

2023-10-19 by Phil Butler

RevitUp masterclass

RevitUp.direct recently conducted a Cyprus Revenue Masterclass, welcoming 120 hospitality professionals to Capo Bay Hotel in Cyprus.

Tags: Alexandros Damigos, Aphrodite Hills Resort, Capo Bay Hotel, Cyprus hotels, hotel management, hotel marketing technology, hotel revenue, hotel tech, hotel tools, marketing tech, revenue managemernt, RevitUP, RevitUp.direct

ZentrumHub Announces Strategic Partnership With WIHP Hotel Marketing

2022-05-31 by Argophilia Travel News

 ZentrumHub, a leading Hotel aggregator API specialist, and WIHP, the Hotel marketing specialists, today announced a strategic partnership that will enable ZentrumHub’ customers to get easy access to metasearch channels and engines like Google Hotel Ads, TripAdvisor, Trivago, Bing Hotel Ads, etc. With WIHP’s Meta I/O solution, ZentrumHub customers will now be able to better monitor […]

Tags: hotel marketing, Hotel rooms, hotel tech, marketing, metasearch, search, WIHP, WIHP Hotels, ZentrumHub

A Grain of Salt and H2O Hospitality Gets You 2.5 Star Bliss

2021-09-19 by Phil Butler

H2O Logo

H2O Hospitality announces having secured $30 million in Series C funding, but a former tech guru wonders “What for?”

Tags: Agoda, Asia hotels, cheap hotels, funding, funding round, H2O Hospitality, H2OStay IKEBUKURO, hotel tech, hotel tech startup, Japan hotels, Japan startups, Kakao Investment, Korea startups, Michael Arrington, Pete Cashmore, Samsung Ventures, South Korea hotels, Southeast Asia Hotels, tech news, TechCrunch, Thailand hotels

SiteMinder Snags Another $100M in Pre-IPO Funding

2021-09-19 by Argophilia Travel News

SiteMinder logo

Hotel commerce platform SiteMinder announced raising $100 million in a pre-IPO funding.

Tags: Blackrock, digital hotels, eCommerce, Ellerston Capital, hotel tech, hotels, OTAs, Pendal Group, SiteMinder

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

Greece’s HotelBrain Expands Its Footprint in Crete and Other Destinations

2021-07-29 by Phil Butler

HB logo

Greece’s leading hospitality group HotelBrain has announced having expanded its portfolio of properties by adding 14 new leased hotels.

Tags: Alexandropolis hotels, Crete hotels, family hotels, Greece hotels, Greece resorts, hotel tech, Hotelbrain, HotelKeys SA, Mykonos hotels, Panos Paleologos, Paros hotels, Rhodes hotels, Santorini hotels, Thassos hotels

How Too Much Reliance On Technology Can Ruin Hospitality for Good

2021-07-18 by Phil Butler

Porto Bay Rio

The COVID-19 pandemic has not changed everything. Hospitality will always be about people, and experiences. The front desk must stay.

Tags: American Hotel & Lodging Association, Binu Mathews, Chip Rogers, concierge, Deloitte, desk clerk, front desk, guest preferences, hospitality trends, HospitalityNet, hotel marketing, hotel tech, Hotrec, IDS Next, Magnani Caruso Dutton, marketing, OpenKey, tech, Vikram Oberoi

Coming Up December 1st: Hospitality Marketplace #Justpitchit

2020-11-23 by Phil Butler

Funnel TV

December 1st – 4th, forty travel and hospitality companies will meet online at the Hospitality Marketplace: Just Pitch It online event.

Tags: EyeWide Digital Marketing, FunnelTV, Hospitality Marketplace, hotel marketing, hotel tech, hotel technology, Hyperguest, Justpitchit, Linkedinlive, Minas Liapakis, Palladium Hotel Group, technology, technology solutions, Travel Singularity

Tablet Hotels Selects 2,000 Hotels To Add To Its Platform

2020-11-22 by Argophilia Travel News

Tablet Hotels logo

Tablet Hotels has announced a new strategic initiative after integration with Michelin, ncluding the launch of “Take Me Away” discovery.

Tags: hotel ratings, hotel suggestions, hotel tech, Michelin, Michelin Group, Michelin Guide, Tablet Hotels, Tablet Plus VIP Program, VIP programs

Hotels’ Meeting Rooms as Xmas Corporate Headquarters 2020

2020-11-21 by Aleksandr Shatskih

hotel lobby

The Hospitality industry is counting down the days until the end of lockdown 2.0, but this Christmas Season will be completely different. Here’s a look at some innovative ideas.

Tags: Christmas 2020, hospitality industry, Hospitality marketing, hotel marketing, hotel tech, meetings, MICE, Royal Lancaster London, Tomasz Janczak, travel

RevitUP Revenue Catalyst Shines at Athens 100% Hotel Show

2019-11-20 by Phil Butler

RevitUP

This past week in Athens, EyeWide Digital Hotel Marketing and Cyprus-based Plarino Hotel Management Services launched RevitUP at the 100% Hotel Show held November 15-18 at Athens’ MEC Paianias Exhibition Center. EyeWide, a leading European hotel marketing firm, partnered with Cyprus based Plarino, in order to create a unique hotel revenue enhancement. The holistic hotel revenue […]

Tags: channel management, EyeWide Digital, EyeWide Digital Marketing, hotel bookings, hotel management, hotel marketing, hotel marketing technology, hotel revenue, hotel room sales, hotel sales, hotel sales technology, hotel tech, HotelTechReport, Humble Digital, Plarino, Plarino Hotel Management Services, Revelier, RevitUP, vacation rooms, Xotel

RateHawk Launches in Greek, Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian

2019-08-27 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Rate Hawk

RateHawk.com has just introduced a fully localized version of its platform for the Greek, Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian markets.

Tags: B2B bookings, B2B hotel tech, booking, booking engines, booking portals, booking technology, European bookings, hotel tech, language support, RateHawk

D-EDGE and PayPal for Secured Payment at Booking Time

2019-05-28 by Argophilia Travel News

ospitality technology provider, D-EDGE has announced a partnership with PayPal to make prepayment the norm in hotel bookings.

Tags: booking payments, Bookings, D-EDGE, data, hotel bookings, hotel tech, hoteliers, payments, PayPal, secure payments

Shiji and Fliggy partner to pioneer facial recognition hotel check-in

2018-09-04 by Argophilia Travel News

Fliggy

Shiji working with Alibaba’s Fliggy (formerly known as AliTrip), have achieved a hotel industry first by integrating full facial recognition for hotel check-in including credit authorization for 50 hotels in Hainan district of China.

Tags: AI, Alibaba, AliTrip, face recognition, Fliggy, hotel tech, hotels, Shiji, technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Hotelier: Frank Reeves

2018-06-21 by Argophilia Travel News

Frank Reeves

The most confusing aspect of hotel technology these days is discerning real innovation from PR buzz. The need to market and sell products and services always skews the reality, but by taking technology (any technology) down into its basic form consumers can sift through the buzz to discover the real value. With this kind of consumer focus, we thought this great breakdown from Avvio might help sort some of the confusion. 

Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, Avvio, booking, booking tech, Frank Reeves, hotel tech, technology

eRevMax announces 2-way integration with Nitesoft

2018-05-31 by Argophilia Travel News

Nightsoft

Award-winning hotel connectivity expert eRevMax has completed 2-way integration with Swedish cloud-based PMS Nitesoft. The strategic partnership between the two companies will automate the distribution of availability, rates and reservations for hotel clients.

Tags: eRevMax, GDS, hotel booking, hotel manager, Hotel rooms, hotel tech, hotels, metasearch, Nitesoft, OTA's, revenue, Revenue Management, room management

HO[S]TELOFFER.ONLINE to demonstrate its innovative hotel sales proposal software at ITB Berlin 2018

2018-03-06 by Argophilia Travel News

HO[S]TELOFFER.ONLINE

HO[S]TELOFFER.ONLINE offers sales process software for hotels and hostels. The company is based in Berlin, Germany and it’s 100% owned by its Founder, Tomasz Janczak. HO[S]TELOFFER.ONLINE software product is a cloud-based Saas solution, easy to implement, and affordable even for mid-market players.

Tags: hotel sales, hotel tech, HO[S]TELOFFER.ONLINE, ITB Berlin, room offers, room sales, sales offers, Tomasz Janczak, tourism, travel tech, traveler

State of Hotel Tech: Shop Before Buying

2017-01-28 by Phil Butler

Virtual reality shopping

The day may come when a hotel guest expects and gets a real Orwellian experience out of their stay. At least this is a dreamscape that could take place if unbridled tech geeks are put in charge.

Tags: analytics, AR, CheckRobot Inc., data, digital tools, hospitality, hotel tech, hotels, IoT, Plateno Group, technology, VR

SnapShot Addresses Multi-Property Functionality in Its Hotel Analytics Flagship Platform

2016-05-26 by Aleksandr Shatskih

snapshot

After its successful public debut at ITB Berlin 2016 SnapShot continued developing its highly anticipated analytics platform, and has recently updated it to include multi-property functionality, making SnapShot Analytics the first product of its kind to offer a powerful, yet flexible and easy-to-use dashboard.

Tags: business intelligence, hotel revenue, hotel tech, SnapShot, SnapShot Analytics

SnapShot GmbH and University of Surrey Team Up

2016-04-20 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Next month, analytics startup SnapShot GmbH will team up with the University of Surrey School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, to provide a 2 day course on hotel revenue management. According to the news, the new offering will focus on pricing, marketing and distribution for hotel businesses.

Tags: analytics, hospitality management, hotel tech, Professor Graham Miller, SnapShot, SnapShot GmbH, tech, University of Surrey

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