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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

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With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. How many people, then, make up Radisson’s IT area worldwide?

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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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Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform

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For instance, in the hospitality industry, Amenitiz focuses exclusively on independent hotels and B&Bs. Of couse, when you arrive at a hotel, the receptionist is sitting in front of a computer. And yet, hotels have changed quite a lot in recent years. Moreover, they work for several hotels at the same time.

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

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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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Amenitiz wants to upgrade the tech stack of independent hotels

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In more technical terms, Amenitiz has been building a vertical software-as-a-service product that combines everything you need to run a hotel. In particular, Amenitiz takes care of three important bricks in the hotel industry — it’s a property management system, it acts a channel manager and it let you accept direct bookings more easily.

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

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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! But what is not commonly known is that this family-owned hotel once thrived as a busy brothel during the City’s wild Barbary Coast days. Then, at 3 A.M.,

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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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