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

CIO

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. And his team can do this more sustainably, another “benefit that’s important to us,” Kirkland says. “If

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Lessons from Costco on Sustainable Growth

Harvard Business Review

Few companies succeed in growing at a sustainable rate over time. 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.

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How to gain a five star security reputation in hospitality

CIO

Achieving and sustaining compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a daunting challenge for hotels because they handle many complex payment business cases. An accurate data-flow diagram(s) is maintained that meets the following: • Shows all account data flows across systems and networks.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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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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Sustainable Travel: Opportunities Digital Technology Provides for a Greener Business

Altexsoft

Greenhouse gases (tourism is responsible for around 8 percent of global carbon emissions, three-quarters of which is due to aviation), local resource overuse (e.g., What is sustainable travel? Sustainable or eco-travel is a way of managing travel activities so that the natural environment is preserved and supported.

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SmartRyde, a Japanese online platform for airport transfers, spurs global expansion with Series A

TechCrunch

Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch. Due to the impact of COVID-19, there has been a change in the way people travel, such as avoiding congestion.