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

CIO

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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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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How Attribute-Based Shopping Will Change Hotel Booking

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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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Freshly (un)retired, Gary McGraw takes on machine-learning security (Q&A)

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The mirror, built by the CareOS subsidiary of the French tech company Baracoda , offers personalized recommendations guided by Google’s TensorFlow Lite machine-learning algorithm platform. READ MORE ON MACHINE LEARNING. How Facebook fights fake news with machine learning and human insights.

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CIOs set their agendas to achieve IT’s ultimate balancing act

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Achieving operational excellence while deploying innovative technologies is not an either/or proposition as far as Christian Mate is concerned. A business-aligned technology strategy is built on architecture and agility, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of better alignment,’’ he explains. Just listen With more than 460,000 members and $9.7

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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

Altexsoft

In April 2020, the hotel occupancy in the US dropped to its lowest level ever — the bewildering 24.5 The annual average was roughly 44 percent, which means that more than half of hotel rooms were empty during the whole year. The hospitality industry was among those that suffered the most because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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5 ways AI is showing promise as a decision-maker

CIO

Outcomes are fed back into machine learning models to improve prediction accuracy continually. Hotels could dynamically adjust room rates based on traffic forecasts, weather conditions, and events in the area. AI makes this capability available to any business.