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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

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Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. It is the brains of everything — our core system.

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Kayak co-leads Life House’s $60M Series C to ‘reimagine’ the hotel experience

TechCrunch

Life House , a boutique hotel brand that has built software aimed at helping independent hotel owners and operators, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding co-led by new investors Kayak and Inovia Capital. Rami Zeidan started Life House after nearly a decade of working in different areas of the hotel industry.

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Wheel the World grabs $6M to offer guaranteed accessibility, price match for hotel rooms

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Today, the company announced two new booking tool features, including guaranteed accessibility for hotel rooms booked from its website and a price match offer. The company also now price matches hotel rooms from other booking platforms, including Booking.com, Expedia and Travelocity. “We Those are things that we haven’t done yet.”

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Avoiding a Stay at a Haunted Hotel And Why We Need a Travel App for That

CIO

Imagine booking a room at a small, charming, off-the-beaten-path hotel on the Hawaiian island of Kauai using a popular mobile travel app, only to discover that the room is… haunted! Even now, an SAP customer or partner could be developing such a tool. That’s what happened to my friend Dana. But that didn’t go as planned.

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Boutique hotel tech platform NUMA raises $45M growth financing round led by DN Capital

TechCrunch

We first covered the NUMA Group (then called Cosi) back in 2019 when it raised €5 million for its “full-stack” hospitality alternative to boutique hotels, and then later on when it raised €20 million. NUMA provides boutique hotels, offering around 2,500 units in Berlin, Munich, Rome, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona and Vienna.

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How Attribute-Based Shopping Will Change Hotel Booking

Altexsoft

When searching for hotel rooms, parents with young children may very much prefer to not have a fireplace or a high floor view, while honeymooners may be willing to pay to have both a fireplace and a view. Many hotels, though, still use an old shopping model. shift to more premium rooms and rates ” even in its early trials with ABS.

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. Moreover, IHG’s cloud backbone enables it to take advantage of emerging SaaS offerings, such as Speakeasy AI conversational chatbots, and deliver its own IHG Voice Cloud AI service to help guests and reception desk clerks at hundreds of hotels.

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