Battery Ventures

JUNE 25, 2020

We talk to the founder of one of those startups, hotel-software provider Mews*, in this episode of Powered by Battery. Mews’ founder, Czech-born Richard Valtr, comes from a family of hotel operators in Europe and has a far-reaching vision of how hotels can offer better service to customers—through technology.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In this Christmas post, we’ll look into the idea of smart hotels, find out which cutting edge innovations are behind it, and sneak a glance at some of the hospitality industry tech pioneers. What does a smart hotel mean for a guest? The hotel app can be your virtual concierge and provide all sorts of assistance. Watch the news?

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Altexsoft

MARCH 26, 2021

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. This means a hotel is charged every time the ad is clicked and redirection occurs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Organizations will save thousands on venue, hotel, transportation and catering costs. Firstly, they’re cost-effective. Thanks to technology that allows distributed teams to connect virtually, companies can save money by not flying everyone to a central location.

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

The ceremony for the inaugural edition of the CSO30 Awards will take place at the IDC CISO Roundtable on May 15 at Dubai’s Jumeirah Mina A’Salam Hotel, June 4 at Riyadh’s Mövenpick Hotel and June 10 at Doha’s Grand Hyatt Hotel & Villas.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 30, 2022

Upselling and cross-selling provide hotel owners and managers with the ability to drive greater profit from the same guest by timely offering valuable services. This post aims at explaining the key hotel upselling and cross-selling strategies, ways to digitize them effectively, and examples of existing software serving that purpose.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Jeff Knowlton named CIO for Sonesta International Hotels James Knowlton, Sonesta Sonesta Sonesta International Hotels is a hotel management company with over 280 properties in eight countries. Prior to Pursuit Collection, he held roles at Sage Hospitality, Vail Resorts, and Marcus Hotels & Resorts.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

The result was what is now the Palladium Hotel Group, a hotel chain with 10 different brands spread across Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. At the end of the 1960s, Spanish businessman Abel Matutes had an ambitious dream to bring paradise closer to travelers by offering incredible experiences.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2023

Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Ignoring the potential of generative AI to increase productivity is a surefire way to fall behind as an individual, a team, and an organization. But positioning yourself, your team, and your organization to get ahead requires some strategic thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2024

But the leaders of a handful of companies, including Costco and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, never forget that businesses are complex systems whose elements are interconnected. That gives them the discipline to reject temptations to grow faster than their organizations can sustain.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Organizations can find ways to improve the take-up rates of products and programs by utilizing concepts from behavioral economics. These techniques have been used to convince more citizens to apply for tax benefits and more franchised hotels to use a new algorithmic pricing system, among other examples.

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CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Truly listening to what the business wants and needs and asking questions while empowering his team to experiment is of paramount importance, agrees Eben Hewitt, CIO of Hyatt Hotels. “My All the infrastructure and tools are “just a baseline of what it means to be a competent IT organization. There are no boxes to be checked.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Wheel the World collects over 200 data points on hotels through its Accessibility Mapping System, like hotel room measurements, and digitizes them to build its marketplace so that travelers can determine if that particular room will meet their needs. We have a clear belief and purpose to make the world accessible,” Silberstein said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

By exploiting a vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit managed file transfer service, used by thousands of organizations to securely transfer large amounts of often-sensitive files, hackers were able to inject SQL commands and access customers’ sensitive data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

During her time at Sunrise Bank, she helped transform the organization into a highly regarded sponsor bank, serving clients like Remitly, Gusto and Self Lender. More hotel raffle details here. Prior to joining Unit, Swoverland led a team of compliance and risk professionals at Sunrise Bank, where she served as the chief risk officer.

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CIO

MAY 24, 2023

Choice Hotels, the Maryland-based multinational hotel chain, is a $10 billion, 80-year-old hospitality company with about 7,500 hotels in 46 countries. On the cloud journey: Choice Hotels has a big footprint as a technology firm. Here are some edited excerpts of that conversation.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 30, 2023

They are a way for travel vendors to offer discounted airfares, hotels, car rentals , and other perks and benefits to certain clients, while also potentially increasing sales and customer loyalty. For example, the Resort Inventory Group, which we’ll cover further, aggregates many membership clubs for hotels to distribute their products.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. How IT organizations build applications impacts their usage, power consumption, and overall impact on sustainability.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And more involved the trip, the larger the amount of suppliers from restaurants and transport companies to airlines and hotels and more.” “The important piece is not so much about paying but what happens afterward,” Koeppel said, “what the travel company has to do with these funds.

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CIO

APRIL 5, 2023

At Choice Hotels , cloud is a tool to help the hospitality giant achieve corporate goals. Before organizations map an architectural approach to data, the first thing that they should understand is data intelligence. At some organizations, data can be a matter of life and death.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

Venues such as hotels, airports, and museums are prohibited from coercing individuals into accepting facial scans for such reasons as “business operations” or “service enhancements” Moreover, facial recognition should not serve as the sole means of access to a building.

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The Parallax

AUGUST 23, 2018

He said he would have informed attendees that hotel security personnel planned to regularly inspect their rooms, had he known. The details of the hotel policies, which Caesars and MGM Resorts International formed in response to the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. We MUST NOT let our hotels become like our airports.

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CIO

MAY 31, 2023

Attendees included IT leaders from organizations ranging from local colleges and government municipalities to multinational finance and technology companies. The rise of this “hoteling” concept can create new headaches for operations and IT teams. For some, this will involve technological changes at the workplace and at home.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Others include Blink , an app for frontline workers to use and engage with the various IT services used by their organizations, as well as with each other. Today, Nowsta’s technology manages over 300,000 workers each month across 600 employers, including sports stadiums, hotels, food services vendors and warehouses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Amid widespread reopenings, however, Presso is returning to its initial client base of hospitality/hotel companies and real estate firms. They’re far more organic; 70% of the industry still uses industrial solvents. It was a good temporary partnership and a proving ground for Presso’s robotic dry-cleaning kiosk.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

. “Our software allows organizations to streamline virtually every aspect of the frontline employee experience — from automating paper-based processes to distributing shift schedules to digitizing important resources like employee handbooks.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For example, Banyan can integrate item-level purchase data into business banking or expense management apps, removing the need to organize receipts and expense reports. Banyan maintains a database of “SKU-level” data and a platform that leverages the database to enable companies to use purchase data in various ways (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Or you could run your home like a hotel and put it on Airbnb to finance your travel. Palefsky and Amina claim that a 7-day stay in a home – or condo or apartment – using Kindred is “dramatically more affordable than a vacation rental or hotel.”. Most of the startup’s growth thus far has been organic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline helps hotels to establish and increase their visibility online to tap a wider clientele base. HotelPlus has built an impressive commercial organization, with skilled sales people, a high-performance reseller network covering more than a dozen countries across the continent.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“At some point,” she notes, “some companies might decide it’s cheaper to rent out hotel rooms than rent office space, which is expensive to manage.” ” She predicts that “flexible spaces for people to meet will be a big part of every company’s strategy.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

With the help of sophisticated predictive analytics tools and models, any organization can now use past and current data to reliably forecast trends and behaviors milliseconds, days, or years into the future. Predictive analytics has captured the support of wide range of organizations, with a global market size of $12.49

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The Hustle

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The ring, which was feared stolen after it disappeared from its owner’s Ritz Paris hotel room, was discovered in a vacuum bag following a two-day investigation. Though the hotel claimed no foul play was involved, local prosecutors will decide whether to close the case or investigate further. Acai: superfood or super wasteful?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Today, the company facilitates booking and inventory management for 216 airlines, as well as hotels, trains, airports, online travel companies and even corporations. Embracing a public cloud infrastructure would give the organization greater flexibility to react to customer needs much faster than it could with a homegrown tech stack.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By 2025, more than 50% of IT organizations will use digital employee experience to prioritize and measure digital initiative success. Held at the Nobu Hotel London Portman Square on Thursday 23rd March, the forum is free to attend for qualified attendees. This is a significant increase from fewer than 5% in 2021 (Gartner).

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Every move we make now is a data point; running an errand to the supermarket where we earn points by scanning the app with our details filled out, making a reservation at a hotel, or signing up to watch a movie online, data today is digitized.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Organizing information about prospective deals is a challenging task for B2B sales teams, since salespeople usually rely on multiple tools (email, Zoom, WhatsApp, etc) to talk with buyer committees. Vijayvergiya said one client was able to save $50,000 by organizing their existing contacts instead of purchasing third-party contact data.

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If a team is all in the same city, but using a remote-first style to reduce commuting, then they can organize shorter gatherings, and do them more frequently. Some organizations may balk at the costs of travel and accommodation for a team assembly like this, but they should think of it as an investment in the team's effectiveness.

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