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Feb
2012

Time Hotels To Further Increase Ebusiness With Better Channel Management

Time Hotels, a group of small, independent hotels in France, has increased its productivity from third party resellers through the effective use of RateTiger's channel management tools. During 2010 the hotel chain installed RateTiger's channel manager into 25 Time Hotel properties with a strategy to connect to more ...

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17

Feb
2012

Caesars Entertainment's Gary Loveman to Open HITEC 2012

Chairman, CEO and President of Caesars Entertainment, Inc., Gary Loveman is slated to discuss the importance of customer service and customer loyalty in the hospitality industry at the opening session of the 2012 Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC®). Loveman will speak to HITEC 2012 attendees on Monday, June ...

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20

Feb
2012

Final Call to Hotel Technology Providers: “Most Innovative Hospitality Technology Award” Entry Deadline is February 24

What do hotel technology's leaders think was the most innovative technology to be introduced to hotels in 2011? Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), the trade association chartered to advance the application of hotel technology, will soon close entries for a competition which will reveal the answer to this question ...

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14

Feb
2012

HOSPA to hold Hospitality Finance and Technology Master Classes at Hotelympia 2012

HOSPA – the Hospitality Professionals Association for Finance, Revenue Management and IT – is delighted to announce the speakers and subjects for the free-of-charge HOSPA Master Classes at Hotelympia 2012, to be held from 26 February to 1 March at ExCel London in the capital's Docklands.

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13

Feb
2012

Hotel CEOs talk about Wi-Fi and other tech issues | usatoday.com

Hotels face new challenges as they continue to recover from the recession, including tech-savvy, Web-surfing travelers who have different expectations as guests than do prior generations. USA TODAY assembled five of the industry's top executives last month at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit in Los Angeles in the LA ...

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10

Feb
2012

Innovative Hotel Technologies Sought for Newest Version of GUESTROOM 20X

Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) and the GUESTROOM 20X Task Force, a group of hospitality technology leaders and experts, are searching for the latest and near-future technologies for the newest version of GUESTROOM 20X. The 2012 version of GUESTROOM 20X, a special exhibit showcasing the most innovative technologies for ...

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08

Feb
2012

SAS Analytics' McGuire to discuss hospitality technologies at Cornell student-run conference

Kelly McGuire, executive director of the hospitality travel and global practice at SAS, has been confirmed to speak on the "Innovation in Hospitality Technology" panel at the 87th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC 87), a student-run industry conference at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration (SHA). McGuire, who earned her ...

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31

Jan
2012

Guarded Systems Introduces Hospitality's Most Robust Internet Gateway for 2012

There's a new sheriff in town, and it's designed to protect a hotel's Internet Access Gateway like never before. This appliance is streamlining guest-computing on the front-end while saving hotel owners and operators considerable costs from licensing fees and bundled multi-vendor services on the back end. The ...

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31

Jan
2012

How Smart Devices will Change Hospitality Technology | By Les Spielman

Over the past 25 + years of attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) I have witnessed the birth, and quick demise of many new technology innovations. One item that I recall fondly was the first showing of an item called "Bluetooth". I was immediately struck with the possibilities of this new ...

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23

Jan
2012

Mobile technologies are a unique opportunity for hoteliers to fulfill growing guest demands and expectations for new services. A key service area that needs to be addressed is finally being able to offer an alternative to traditional front desk check in. This is now achieved by providing the option to ...

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