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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. It was a brave and confident decision.

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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. I am in the business of hospitality.

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How to gain a five star security reputation in hospitality

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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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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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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

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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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Huawei’s Vision for Intelligent Networking Unveiled at GITEX Global 2023

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Intelligent transformation is accelerating due to the proliferation of smart devices, surging audio and video traffic, and the ever-growing demand for higher bandwidth. Huawei Huawei’s High-Quality IP Network solutions, designed for government, education, healthcare, and the hotel industry, offer comprehensive coverage and cost-effectiveness.

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Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel

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Sometimes companies have the perception that the best way to reduce travel costs is to get people to get cheaper flights or cheaper hotels and make two stops on the way to two places,” he said. “We And if a company requests it, employees can only see flight and hotel options that are in policy.

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