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kakaboshi

Those Tiny Hotel Toiletry Bottles Are on Their Way Out - The New York Times - 1 views

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hotel sustainability shampoobottles ban roomamenity plasticban green

shared by kakaboshi on 03 Sep 19 - No Cached
  • In what might become the first such state law of its kind, a bill, A.B. 1162, is making its way through the California Legislature that aims to scrap the tiny single-use plastic bottles at hotels and other hospitality establishments. It was passed in the Assembly last week, and has moved to the Senate for committee examination.
  • “The goal is really to start to phase out single-use plastics in our state in general,”
  • “This is really low-hanging fruit because the industry is already moving in that direction.”
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  • The city council of Orlando, Fla., on Monday approved a partial ban on straws and bags, and last month, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, banned plastic bags starting from next year.
  • In March, lawmakers in New York agreed on a statewide ban on most types of single-use plastic bags from retail sales, making it the second state to do so after California, which has been at the national forefront of legislative action to ban plastics clogging shorelines.
  • In 2016, the world generated 242 million tons of plastic waste, according to the World Bank. North America, which it defines as Bermuda, Canada and the United States, is the third largest producer of plastic waste, totaling more than 35 million tons.
  • The California bill says that from the start of 2023, lodging establishments with more than 50 rooms would be prohibited from providing a small plastic bottle containing a personal care product in a bathroom or sleeping room. Establishments with 50 rooms or fewer would have until Jan. 1, 2024.
  • The California Hotel & Lodging Association had pushed for an extension of the deadline to make it easier for hotels to comply.
  • He estimated it could cost about $70 for each of the 500,000 hotel rooms in California to be transformed to accommodate multi-use dispensers.
  • Generally, hotels and hospitality organizations assume guests will nick toiletries. But if they don’t disappear from rooms, bottles left behind are often repurposed.
  • Some donate extras to homeless shelters or other organizations helping people in need.
  • “In one month alone, this can amount to over 380 pounds of toiletries diverted from the landfill and sent to those in need,” the hotel says.
  • InterContinental Hotels Group said last year that it would remove plastic straws from more than 5,400 hotels in nearly 100 countries by the end of 2019 and introduce bulk bathroom amenities at some of its brands.
  • Some hotels work with Clean the World, an organization in Orlando, Fla., that recycles soaps and leftover plastic bottles collected through its partnerships with 8,000 establishments.
  • Like grocery bags and straws, the miniature bottles of toiletries and cosmetics that many guests swipe from hotels are in the sights of legislators and hotel establishments who are trying to reduce the environmental impact of plastic waste.
  • dskomorowsky on 04 Sep 19
     
    This is a smart move, both from a environmental and a cost cutting perspective as refillable containers will likely reduce costs over the long run. Marriott has been looking at replacing this process for years (Marriott Banning Little Shampoo Bottles By 2020 Associated Press - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/marriott-banning-little-shampoo-bottles-2020-n1047116) However, even Marriott admits that it doesn't have the process right yet. There will be a significant impact to smaller operators whom 1) Will be challenged with an additional increase in cost for new dispensary options 2) Have less access to big brand economy of scale purchasing which specialized dispensary products will require. Though this is as a policy almost a foregone conclusion, there seems little doubt that extensive thought has to be put into the impact on operators as a whole, and the customer made cognizant of the fact that costs will rise due to this change.
keugent

Green Technology: Green Technology for Hotels - 0 views

This article highlighted the efforts hotel chains are making, to provide an eco-conscious environment, with the increased consumer demand. Hotels are going the extra mile to ensure their green cred...

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jorgeegutivav

InterContinental New York Barclay Aligns Sustainability Efforts With UN's 2030 Agenda |... - 0 views

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  • jorgeegutivav on 18 Sep 19
     
    This article discusses the InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel's mission to become New York's most sustainable hotel. In order to do so, the Barclay has aligned its own initiates with those of the United Nations and look to follow its standards 100% by 2010. Some of these initiatives include donating unused toiletries to impoverished nations as well as partnering with New York's Repeat Roses, an organization that reuses floral arrangements from weddings and other events for nursing homes and hospitals.
yyr997

Importance OF GDS for Travel Agents and Tour Operators - 1 views

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shared by yyr997 on 29 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • Popular GDS Systems in Travel Industry
  • Amadeus 1987 Iberia, Air France, SAS  and Lufthansa, Strongly based in Europe, Mid East, North Africa & Asia Pacific Galileo 1993 Galileo was Founded by a combination of 11 most significant North American and European airlines conducted by United Airlines. Currently owned by Cendant Corporation It has a strong web-presence in US and Western Europe. Sabre 1976 Initially it was founded by American Airlines. Currently Sabre is a separate entity owned by AMR corporation very strong  Global presence in US and Asia Pacific Worldspan 1990 Worldspan was founded by Delta, TWA, and North West Airlines. Further it was being sold to Transaction Processing Corporation. Mainly in the US and Europe
  • Please find few of the benefits of  Global distribution systems: The Use of Global distribution system shows a rise across corporate and leisure travelers GDS is highly effective in alluring the international travelers. This is the reason why using of GDS among the travel agents is growing exponentially every year. OTAs have greatly improved the travel shopping experience and convenience for consumers and have increased pricing transparency. GDSs enable the retail travel agency and OTA business models. The GDSs enable the travel agents to make their travel services available to consumers globally where they might not otherwise be able to achieve efficient worldwide market penetration through direct marketing efforts. Booking through Global distribution system is most preferable for  corporate travel agents as a suitable reservation process for holidays,  air, hotel and rental cars. Travel agents can get global platform for their business with strong market penetration Global distribution system is the base to  enter into corporate clients across the world GDS is the ability to update the status of inventory  in real time.  Due to its real-time  status update capability managers can view rates change and  can easily alter price points or make special offers. Agents can view all the changes instantly and will be able to suggest the new updates and offers to clients without any interruption to make the deal.. Its a wise decision to invest in a GDS. The system places your holiday booking services and inventories in front of  huge  clients without affecting  your marketing budget.  The unique selling point of GDS is that it Can provide best rates to your guests, which no other systems can provide.  Your gusts can find packages that include a hotel stay, air travel and car rental
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  • 2015 is going to be a successful year for travel agents using global distribution systems for bookings. According to Travel-Click research the bookings through GDS is projected to 62 Million, which was 61 million in 2014 and 42 million in 2009.
  • Having a mobile optimized tours and travel prortal is the most efficient way to find both local  and international hotels, airlines, holidays and car rentals on short notice.  Its a big change in consumer behavior to switch over to mobile. Shifting to mobile search is already being started and reflects of changes can be apparently measured.
  • GDS is a computerized web service that provides pricing, real time availability, centralized data display with  reservation functionality to the global travel industry in a very unified process.
  • GDS is highly effective in alluring the international travelers.
  • Global distribution system is the base to  enter into corporate clients across the world
  • GDS is very huge and it will create robust ecommerce platform for travel industry.
  • sliu043 on 29 Jan 18
     
    As we all know, GDS is an online system known as global distribution system, which delivers worldwide data, rates, inventory, offers, real-time availability of airlines, hotel rooms, car rental, bus tickets to bridge the gap between tour operators and travel bookers. The article has introduced the most popular GDS systems in the industry and their strong advantages. In addition, it also reveals the reasons why the industry still uses GDS and the importance of it. In one word, GDS is highly effective in alluring the international travelers with the development of information and technology. It enables the travel agents to make their travel services available to consumers globally where they might not be able to achieve efficient worldwide market penetration through direct marketing efforts.( The article has also given a future prediction about GDS. According to the statistics, GDS will rule the travel industry if it keeps continuing the ever changing needs of airlines and hotel industry.
  • yyr997 on 29 Jan 20
     
    GDS is very important in the tourism industry. Even if the company creates its own direct sales channels, the impact and benefits of GDS are considerable. Making good use of the advantages of GDS can create word of mouth and revenue for the company in the hospitality industry.
irinatroitskaya

How to Use Guest Data to Personalise Your Hotel Email Marketing - 0 views

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  • New research from Software Advice suggests that email marketing continues to be an important channel for hoteliers.
  • People are much more likely to provide their email addresses.
  • Email serves as a strong engagement channel, especially for return customers.
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  • Email marketing takes a significant amount of scheduling to most effectively drive direct bookings and boost customer loyalty.
  • Technology paired with a data-driven, personalised email marketing strategy is a must have combination for any hotel.
  • irinatroitskaya on 17 Nov 17
     
    The aspects of email marketing for the hotels are discussed in the article. It is stated that e-mail remains a very important e-marketing channel. Although smartphones are considered to be the most effective way to reach the customers nowadays, there are as many e-mail users as smartphone users worldwide (3.7 billion). There are two main reasons why e-mails are still relevant for marketing purposes. First, people are more likely to provide their e-mail addresses rather than phone numbers. E-mails are less invasive. Second, personalized e-mails are strong engagement channel. It is very important to tailor the e-mails according to the demographics and behavioral data that can be obtained from the transaction information and hotel management systems. I suppose, that technology is very important in marketing efforts, but the personal touch is a key to success.
irinatroitskaya

United Signals It Wants a Better Deal with Reservation Middlemen - Skift - 0 views

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GDS airlines

shared by irinatroitskaya on 16 Sep 17 - No Cached
  • The reservation services that middlemen technology companies provide to travel agency networks and online travel agencies are a particular sore spot for airlines.
  • Overall worldwide, airline lobbying groups say they pay $7 billion in fees a year to these reservation systems.
  • In the past, non-standard products like that have posed challenges for Sabre, Amadeus, Travelport, and Travelsky to display and distribute to travel agencies.
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  • But beyond monetary concerns, there were antitrust issues at play, with the airlines contending that Sabre had a stranglehold on the domestic U.S. market
  • The distributors say they can accommodate technological requests from the airlines, despite the public skepticism expressed by some airline executives.
  • irinatroitskaya on 16 Sep 17
     
    This article demonstrates the way how relationship between the airlines (United) and the technology companies which serve as middlemen is build. According to the estimations, the airlines pay to the gds's about $18 per round trip ticket reservation, which results in 7 billion in fees that are payed to the gds's annually. The air companies consider these fees unfair in regard of the gds' performance. To compensate for these payments as well as to promote direct bookings, the airlines (namely, Lufthansa) have added a surcharge for any external bookings. GDS's, however, fight back and start litigations against Lufthansa. The decision on this case will either stop such a practice, or force other airlines to follow LH and add surcharges for gds's too. Another problem that airlines experience with GDS's is the presentation of non-standard products that the airlines offer. For example, it took the GDS's several years to correctly display the Ecomy Skycouch by Air New Zealand (buy 3 seats at the price of 2 to sleep across all of them during the long-haul flight). United is going to introduce its Basic Economy Seats with no carry-on luggage and no qualifying miles. However, they are not sure that the GDS' s will be able to display this product to the customers in a proper way so that they could fully understand what they are buying. The reason for that is that GDS's are mainly reluctant to invest in technologies that are focused on product differentation. In this regard, it becomes more difficult to compare fares since different set of services is included in different products. Thus, the customers might be mislead. Moreover, there are antitrust issues with the gds's. The airlines claim that Sabre has a stranlehold on the US domestic market. Such position allows it to ultimatum the airlines and voluntary decide on search display order. The airlines expect the GDS's to be more prone to partnership ralations. This would imply the fair compensation for what they add to the
mcont036

Investing in the Guest Experience: Wyndham Becomes First Major Hotel Company to Begin R... - 2 views

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hotel cloud mobile technology

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  • Mobile-enabled platform allows for quicker innovation while helping hotels enhance guest personalization, lower costs and boost operational efficiencies
  • Wyndham's selection of OPERA Cloud for its full-service hotels represents the latest in a growing list of newly launched technology initiatives by the Company, all of which center on giving franchisees tools to help provide a competitive advantage amid the ongoing pandemic
  • "Having OPERA Cloud in place allows franchisees to quickly and remotely enhance features for guests as the industry continues to evolve, which is going to be critical in maintaining a competitive edge."
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  • Wyndham first began its digital transformation journey in 2016, which has since resulted in a shift to best-in-class, cloud-based property management systems, a single central reservation system for all 20 brands, and a flexible cloud service and sales platform.
  • mcont036 on 18 May 21
     
    Wyndham Hotels & Resorts announced the roll out of the Oracle Hospitality OPERA Cloud Property Management (PMS), which will reduce the need for onsite hardware with special installation and provide operational enhancements that will be beneficial for guests, such as higher performance, security and reliability. One of the key features described is the mobile computing aspect of it, which gives operators the ability to run the hotel from anywhere, meaning team members do not need to be stationed at a desk to serve guests. The cloud-based system is designed to operate in more than 200 countries and can integrate with thousands of partners to create personalized opportunities for guests. This follows a series of shifts to other cloud-based systems which started in 2016 in an effort to demonstrate a progressive approach to digital transformation to give their hotel owners a strategic advantage over the competition.
  • angelopecorelli on 19 May 21
     
    I was shocked to read this article. I have worked with Wyndham and with Opera for many years and I was not expecting them to change to a different PMS system. I believe this might be a good move from Wyndham because private owners could reduce expenses by not having to pay royalties to Opera but at the same time, this is a new system that is somewhat new to the franchise. Great post I really enjoyed this article.
anonymous

Social Media Marketing Strategies for Restaurants in 2021 - CrayonPanda - 1 views

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  • “Necessity is the mother of all inventions”,
  • There is a strong affinity for online media today, to access things people can’t go out and shop for.
  • when picking a restaurant, Gen Z and Millennials are 99% more likely to search for one on social media
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  • with social media monitoring, you can discover new and ongoing conversations surrounding your business. You can understand your customers better and react accordingly. You can improve your way of working to meet your clientele’s expectations and earn appreciation for your brand.
  • It is all about the convenience of things being available at the tip of one’s fingers.
  • anonymous on 21 Jun 21
     
    This article discusses how restaurants can incorporate social media marketing strategies to reach a broader audience base and grow brand loyalty. Post-pandemic, many restaurants are finding it difficult to attract customers to return to dining in. In efforts to bring back foot traffic, restaurants are utilizing social media marketing to advertise their services. Having a social media presence allows customers to know you're there and creates new forms of interaction between restaurants and diners. The article mentions that 99% of Gen Z and millennials will search for restaurants on social media when picking a place to eat. Now more than ever, it is essential for restaurants to have a social media presence because of how many users are on these platforms.
nadiatc

App, App and Away: Understanding Planners' Event App Needs , by Mike May - 1 views

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  • Mobile app developers claim they have been creating event apps for 5 years, but 2013 is merely the second year of meaningful commercial deployment, with exploding growth expected over the next 3 years.
  • The Omni app expedites a number of activities, from menu and floor plan reviews to session changes and temperature adjustments. It is pre-loaded with BEOs, group resume, agenda, and interactive floor plans.
  • an event marketing coordinator has been loading, formatting and updating lots of content using a Content Management System (CMS) interface.
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  • As evidence of the demand for event apps, adoption rates or app downloads are hitting the 80% range, and usage measures like app visits or page views are trending higher too.
  • Just last month, Marriott Hotels announced its new app, Red Coat Direct. Like the Omni app, Marriott touts their app will grant any meeting wish (within reason) so planners never leave their meeting room.
  • nadiatc on 28 Jun 14
     
    More and more mobile apps for meeting attendees are being created to help enhance the meeting experience.  This article discusses the growing demand for more reliable meeting apps, as well as tips and recommendations on what to consider as one goes about developing an app.  Meeting apps are unique in that they must be property-specific because of the many core features that align with property information.  Core features include, but are not limited to: session schedule and description, speaker photo and bio, attendee profile and schedule, and documents (i.e., PowerPoint presentations).  Mobile meeting apps are not without much effort from event coordinators/organizers plugging the information useful to attendees.  Apps are meeting-specific as they are property-specific. 
Ted Rood

Maestro Launches the New Face of Hotel Operations; Mobilizes Staff with Xpress iPad Che... - 1 views

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  • Maestro iPad Xpress Check-In app
  • Xpress Check-In app lets properties use iPads and other tablet devices for personalized mobile check-in and check-out services
  • enables staff to perform all the system check-in and -out functions of a wired front desk terminal anywhere a wireless signal is available.
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  • supercharge guest service and optimize revenue and productivity
  • Credit card paymen
  • group conference check-in
  • encode magstripe and RFID room keys from the iPad
  • NORTHWIND is recognized in the hospitality industry for its standard-setting Diamond Plus Service and robust integrated Maestro resort hotel software technology
  • Xpress Check-In is ideal for processing large groups quickly and conveniently to keep the lobby operating smoothly.
  • Entire tour groups may also be registered, their credit cards processed, and keys encoded
  • Curbside or lobby wireless check-in and check-out
  • unique services that drive revenue and increase productivity;
  • Maestro PMS, the industry's most robust and flexible resort software and boutique hotel software solution empowering leading full-service hotels,
  • and distributed while still on their bus for greater convenience.
  • With the portability, large screen and long battery life of the iPad, it is suited very well for the round-the-clock hotel industry. The Maestro Xpress iPad solution
  • Personalized upsell and room-change capability with real-time availability access
  • Remote
  • and room blocking
  • Xpress Check-In registers entire groups from meeting rooms and conference spaces Maestro
  • We worked with IJWS to create our iPad Xpress Check-In app that integrates with Maestro PMS to register guests in the lobby or curbside for the ultimate in personalized service and upsell capabilit
  • Akshay Ramanathan on 15 May 12
     
    This article discuss how both new software and hardware is being utilized in the hospitality industry to expedite the process of guests checking in and out of hotels. The article is about NORTHWIND, a company well known for having developed "Maestro" a property management software suite that enables hotels, resorts, and multi-property organizations to manage their facilities. Specifically the article mentions how NORTHWIND is introducing "Xpress Check-In" an tablet specific software that will increase the speed and ease with which guests are able to enter and exit the hotel. This goes to show how the company is keeping abreast with the recent and growing trend of portable tablet/touch screen hardware devices. This software and hardware combination enables desk agents to operate away from their desk allowing for more intimate and personalized service with guests. I think the most unique and amazing feature of this system is that it will allow hotel agents to check in and process large groups such as conference attendees quickly and efficiently. The "Maestro Xpress Check-In" system can not only check guests in, but also encode their room key card, as well as process credit card transactions and capture their signature. All of these things can be completed even before conference attendees disembark from the bus and enter the hotel. I believe that hotels who choose to invest and employ technologies like this will distinguish themselves from other establishments because their service will be much better and smoother, both for guests and the hotel. These unique services will also be key in driving revenue and increasing productivity. NORTHWIND is well recognized in the hospitality industry for providing real-time technology solutions that help users control and manage their business effectively.
  • Ted Rood on 20 May 12
     
    Maestro, a company specializing in property management and hotel software is launching a new face in property management productivity by introducing the Maestro Ipad Xpress App. With the popularity of tablet computers such as IPads and android platform tablets rising, Northwind has decided to launch a system through Maestro to make the check-in and check-out process in a hotel as simple and efficient as possible. Northwind ultimately hopes that the Xpress check-in app will not only be more efficient for guests but also optimize revenue and productivity in the hotel. The new app allows guests to complete the check-in and check-out process anywhere a wireless signal is available. Lets say for example, a large group of employees are attending an out of state conference and when they arrive at the hotel, there are over fifty of them that have to go through the check-in process. With the Xpress check-in app, these individuals could check in on their way to the hotel and by the time they get there they will save time and effort by not having to wait in line and go through the entire check in process one by one. For this reason the Maestro Xpress Check-In App is perfect for handling large groups of people arriving at the same time. The Xpress app creates a more personalized service for the customer making the entire check-in and check-out process much more convenient for the guest and productive for the hotel. 
zihanwang

What is event management software and do you really need it? - Lead Forensics - 2 views

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event management software hospitality technology

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  • The benefits of using event management software It can make your life easier The main benefit of using such solutions is that they can help you maximize registrations, while minimizing the resources that may otherwise have been needed. Once you’ve set up an event on your chosen software, then you should just be able to press go and let it get on with things – leaving you to concentrate on promoting the event. If you’re running multiple events, or a regularly occurring event, then this can be particularly useful. Saves time needed for manual processing Good solutions will help you automate most processes. They will offer features like registration tracking, payment processing and also tools that can aid audience engagement. You’ll be able to grab a quick snapshot of what’s happening, who’s registered, who’s paid, who went on to attend and more. Plus, you’ll have an easy way to track how much money an event is bringing into the business. It will save time for your communication sequences too. With just a few clicks you should be able to send out tailored emails, including “thank you for attending” messages to those that made it and “sorry we missed you” to those who didn’t. Aids professionalism and the overall experience A further benefit is that it can make the management of the process feel that much more professional. The whole experience should run more smoothly. Nothing should be missed, which you can easily risk with a manual system. The payment of any monies can also be managed more easily and you’ll have the ability to manage multiple events easily. Can help increase engagement Engagement is at the heart of all marketing. It needs to start long before an event takes place and be supported and encouraged during and after. Good event management software will provide tools to aid participant communication at all stages. It will also give you the ability to see and analyze the global picture of your overall engagement levels. Supports targeted activity Marketing is at its strongest and most effective when it is highly targeted and tailored to an individual. (The key principal of account based marketing). You can use specialist solutions to tailor your event and all associated marketing activity. For example, by creating unique guest lists and email lists, and sending out targeted emails to those different attendees using certain parameters. A holistic approach Overall, event management software can act as a hub, holding together all elements of the event’s process. It can help keep everything connected, from the agenda, to speakers, any sponsors and the attendees.
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      zeyupu on 25 Mar 20
       
      Benefits of event registration system.
  • Hosting an event can be an effective marketing tactic for any business. They take considerable time and effort to carry out, but get it right and you could soon see a strong return on your investment. The power of an event – especially a highly tailored in-person one – lies in the opportunity it provides to get face-to-face with a target audience.
  • For businesses across all industries and sectors, they offer a way to showcase your knowledge, position yourself as an expert and generate a source of positive content. Importantly, they can help you move leads along the sales path and closer to making a purchase.
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  • The overall aim of any B2B marketing event must always be to give a good impression of the business and what it may be like to work with you.
  • It can make your life easier
  • Saves time needed for manual processing
  • Aids professionalism and the overall experience
  • Can help increase engagement
  • Support channels
  • You can use specialist solutions to tailor your event and all associated marketing activity.
  • A holistic approach
  • Lack of design options
  • he easiest way to check this out is to see if you can have a free trial or comprehensive demo.
  • Price
  • Supports targeted activity
  • Using new software will often mean a steep learning curve, so see what is offered to help you through that process and beyond.
  • yuqiongliang on 27 Mar 20
     
    Hosting an event can be an effective marketing tactic for any business. They take considerable time and effort to carry out, but get it right and you could soon see a strong return on your investment. The power of an event - especially a highly tailored in-person one - lies in the opportunity it provides to get face-to-face with a target audience.
  • kmert005 on 29 Mar 20
     
    This article goes over the benefits of using event management, which includes making your life easier, saves the time needed for manual processing, aids professionalism and the overall experience, and can help increase engagement. Furthermore, it also supports targeted activity and a holistic approach. Some cons would be a lack of design options, the price, and support channels. The top solutions would be implementing Splash, Eventbrite, Bizzabo, EventPro, Cvent, Etouches, and XING Events
  • zihanwang on 30 Jul 20
     
    This article introduce several pros and cons of event management software. On the one hands, the event management can make the process easier for business and consumers and it can help increase engagement. But, on the other hands, The price can also vary greatly, with the most sophisticated and popular systems generally coming at the highest cost and some vendors offer a free version of their software with limited features. To recoup costs, these vendors may run advertisements on event sign-up pages or charge registrants a booking fee. That may influence users experience.
richardkutch

Is Humanless Reception the Next Big Thing? | QiK A.R.M.S Hotel Management Software - 2 views

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unmanned self-service kiosk

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  • richardkutch on 24 Aug 17
     
    Hotels have always looked for ways to improve guest satisfaction to stay competitive. And since travelers are becoming increasingly tech savvy it makes sense that those hotels would look for ways to meet the "wants" of today's travelers. But it's not just about providing new services, it is also about improving existing services that are difficult to provide at consistent levels. For example, there are so many things included in the check-in experience that must be done right in order for a guest to be satisfied with the process, e.g. the agents appearance, demeanor and professionalism, their level of competency, the wait time, etc. So much effort is made to find, hire and properly train these first contact employees and even then hotels often fall short of guest expectations. Technology solutions would eliminate the need for these tasks and bring a level of consistency to this and other activities related to staying at a hotel. But can tech completely replace human interaction? I believe it can and will in some hotels that will be designed for those guests that want that kind of experience. As a business traveler, I'm happy when I can bypass the front desk check-in lines and register myself using my phone and also use my phone as my room key. It's exciting to see the innovative spin being placed on routine hotel related activities, but the industry is likely a generation away from unmanned hotels being an accepted norm.
anonymous

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  • Much has changed in the business world since the birth of technology and the subsequent discovery of the world wide web (www) in 1989.
  • Much has changed in the business world since the birth of technology and the subsequent discovery of the world wide web (www) in 1989.
  • According to South African Tourism (2015), more than 180 million bed nights were sold in 2015, making the hotel industry an attractive client of e-commerce.
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  • suppliers and customers meet in a virtual space to perform transactions using Internet technology as it has the potential to add substantial value to business operations and competitiveness of a business.
  • scene of the famous lion-buffalo-crocodile battle watched more than 75 million times on YouTube)
  • e-commerce has not only
  • changed the way business is conducted, but has increased the revenue of organisations tremendously, in particular that of the travel and tourism industry.
  • The top three visited travel sites include Booking.com, Expedia.com and Hotels.com.
  • online travel booking is the specific business-to-consumer (B2C) transaction in the context of online tourism
  • right: © 2016 A
  • understand how the various online sales platforms interconnect.
  • the internet consumer of today assumes all businesses worthy of trade have a website;
  • it is not enough for hotels to rely on their web pages alone for room sales.
  • An aspect of e-commerce revolves around how social media affects a hotel’s online presence, and how it is used as a tool for gaining a notable share in the e-commerce market for hotel room sales.
  • In an increasingly competitive market place, tourism products require an effective distribution strategy for a firm to reach its target tourists and local markets
  • Although the statistic does not identify the specific modes used to make room reservations, it can be presumed that electronic sales made up a considerable percentage as sales method.
  • The Internet is an ideal platform for the tourism industry
  • 1) they are intangible, 2) their production and consumption cannot be separated, 3) they are perishable, and 4) they are seasonal
  • survey conducted in Hong Kong of 249 leisure travellers, 80% searched for hotel information using Web tools, with more than half making their bookings through hotel host websites or third-party websites
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 05 Jun 20
       
      They wouldn't be able to gather this information on technology unless they had the proper technology to do so.
  • Social commerce should be considered broader than the act of sharing shopping experiences with others, as it has challenged and redefined traditional vendor-push business models and marketing strategies (Gonçalves Curty & Zhang, 2013:260-261).
  • E-commerce allows the tourism consumer to purchase tourism products and packages online and act as his or her own travel agent by building personalised travel packages and eliminitaing the need for traditional processes
  • From a hotel business perspective, e-Procurement is a good example of the innovative use of technology in the lodging industry
  • 2B
  • E-procurement can be defined as a business-to-business (B2B) tool that supports the buying process
  • implementing e-procurement has become an important enabler for achieving a flexible and responsive supply chain.
  • An example of e-procurement or a business-to-business transaction would be a hotel selling its rooms to OTAs on a wholesale or commission basis.
  • e-commerce in the modern tourism and hospitality industry is important because the Internet is the lowest cost hotel-booking channel, most travellers research hotel reservations on the Internet, and social media and online hotel reviews are an increasingly important decision factor.
  • there are three most common retail sales channels – brick-and-mortar, catalogue and the Web – across the elements that characterise the shopping and business ownership experience
  • Travel services are categorised into Accommodation and Airlines, as these two components constitute a large part of the hospitality industry.
  • This research study is focused on room sales, therefore the distribution channels used for this purpose will be explained, namely, Online Travel Agents (OTAs) and merchant sites.
  • Today, e-commerce focuses on profitability.
  • challenge for retailers is to attract the attention of the digital natives (consumers who have grown up in the digital world) and persuade them to spend more, as well as to attract digital immigrants (consumers who are presumed to resist new technology or at least have trouble accepting it) to this way of shopping.
  • Social media can increase communication for a website and create brand awareness.
  • a social network is a virtual community, profile site or website on the Internet that brings people together in a central location, to talk, share ideas and interests or make new friends.
  • platforms such as social network services (
  • is one of the main reasons for advancement in Web 2.0 technologies and developments in e-commerce.
  • social commerce providers started their businesses by combining group-buying with selling discount coupons offered from their partners over the Internet.
  • E-commerce mainly helps in the generation of leads, presenting information about the tourism product to the customers, and facilitating the transaction process electronically
  • consumers have become the storytellers and are the new brand ambassadors.
  • social media is driven by word-of-mouth and if done properly can improve positioning in the market
  • e-commerce is still new. Getting (2007), maintain that most online communities are free and are growing at a rapid rate.
  • An online rating site is a system of ranking places, products and services via customer reviews based on past experiences.
  • TripAdvisor is classified as a meta-search engine, which is defined by Webopedia (2015) as a search engine that queries other search engines and then combines the results.
  • the prevalence of traveller reviews had a significant impact on the online sales of hotel rooms and that hotel managers should seriously consider the impact that online reviews of their hotels on these websites have on the consumer.
  • Online channels allow the potential customer to see the location details and compare hotel prices easily, as well as read online reviews which have a wider reach and are less ephemeral than traditional word-of-mouth reviews.
  • Figure 1 further illustrates the direct booking channel guests have to hotels via the Internet.
  • Reservation System (CRS) in the 1960s to the Global Distribution System (GDS) in the 1980s and the advent of the Internet in the early 1990s, the tourism industry has always been confronted with the rise of new technological developments
  • rapid growth of online travel agencies caused traditional indirect distribution channels through tourism intermediaries to decline
  • The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life. In order for businesses to be sustainable, they need to have an e-commerce presence
  • it is a service that can be readily offered to global markets and it can become a trade platform joining suppliers and buyers from around the world
  • with technological advancements, firms are increasingly reaching out to their customers through a variety of channels such as e-commerce, m-commerce and brick-and-mortar establishments. Heinemann and Schwarzl (2010:1) contend online retail today is taking place at a higher level of evolution than in the initial years of e-commerce.
  • there are technical and non-technical aspects associated with e-commerce
  • How can hotels compete in a digital world and what will their future business models look like?
  • an intranet as a private network, operated by a large company or organisation, which uses internet technologies, but is insulated from the global Internet by a firewall (a system designed to prevent unauthorised access). An extranet, however, is an intranet that is accessible to some people from outside the company
  • studies in the tourism and hospitality arena have indicated that ICT is a tool particularly suited to this industry for a variety of reasons.
  • The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life. In order for businesses to be sustainable, they need to have an e-commerce presence
  • The hospitality industry is an ideal trade for making use of e-commerce and the social web.
  • Reputable booking sites such as Booking.com, Expedia.com and Tripadvisor are visited by over 300 million online visitors each month.
  • Internet users have become demanding in their expectations of company presence online.
  • “if I can’t find enough information on your hotel it’s probably not a good choice.”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 05 Jun 20
       
      BOTTOM LINE
  • E-commerce is expected to reach global sales of $1.5 trillion by 2018 (Statista, 2016), and therefore hotels in CT will need to increase their presence on the internet, not only on booking sites, but also on the social web in order to receive a sizable share of electronic sales.
  • anonymous on 05 Jun 20
     
    This article talks about where the internet has brought us in the business world and where it is taking us. There are other articles included to support the idea that hospitality businesses need the internet inorder to successfully reach out to and market toward customers. Along with the idea that if a business does not have an online presence,that, is an untapped stream of revenue. As well as the combined business efforts that go into delivering a flawless product to its customers via the web. There were two case studies that took place in order to understand the role e-commerce has played and will potentially play in the hospitality industry.
cmick006

Hackers Target WHO, COVID-19 Research Firm with Cyberattacks - 0 views

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  • The Office for Civil Rights recently warned healthcare providers that hackers have increasingly impersonated health agencies tasked with the Coronavirus response, as well as the FBI and the Department of Justice.
  • , healthcare organizations need to be reviewing and discussing their data protection strategies as more work shifts into the remote environment to ensure they’re protected in the event of a compromise.
  • “It is a critical time to make sure all your data is backed up, especially as many of the company assets are moving out of the office,” he added. “If it’s critical to always have your systems running and you could not afford the downtime to rebuild your systems, you need more than just cloud backup and would need to implement a disaster recovery solution to continue your operations with minimal downtime.”
  • cmick006 on 22 Jun 20
     
    Cyberattacks on health organizations. These organizations need to implement better data protection. Personal and medical data has been hacked and there is a continuous effort put forth to breach the systems that house this information. With more and more companies researching potential vaccines and remedies for Covid, now more than ever, organizations must have more than just cloud backups; disaster recovery plans should include offsite backups at a minimum.
marble_bird

Roche2016_Article_RecreationalDivingImpactsOnCor.pdf - 0 views

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  • Recreational diving on coral reefs is an activity that has experienced rapidly growing levels of popularity and participation.
  • the potential role of dive impacts in contributing to coral reef damage is a concern at heavily dived locations. Management measures to address this issue increasingly include the introduction of programmes designed to encourage environmentally responsible practices within the dive industry.
  • Coral reefs are a threatened, but globally important ecosystem, providing key services to local communities such as coastal defence, sediment production, and fisheries benefits
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  • The role of dive supervision was assessed by recording dive guide interventions underwater, and how this was affected by dive group size.
  • Over recent decades, tourism activities benefiting from the pleasing aesthetics and biodiversity of coral reefs, primarily SCUBA diving and snorkelling, have experienced rapidly increasing numbers of participants globally
  • We found evidence that the ability of dive guides to intervene and correct diver behaviour in the event of a reef contact decreases with larger diver group sizes. Divers from operators with high levels of compliance with the Green Fins programme exhibited significantly lower reef contact rates than those from dive operators with low levels of compliance.
  • Damage to corals on dived reefs often occurs as a result of skeletal breakage, particularly in branching species (Guzner et al. 2010;H a s l e ra n dO t t 2008). Tissue abrasion can also result from diver contact (Hawkins et al. 1999), and a recent study reported a higher incidence of coral disease in areas heavily used for recreational diving
  • It is possible that other diver characteristics such as qualification level or dive experience may affect the ability to respond to dive briefings, although several studies have failed to find a correlation between divers’ reef contact rates and experience
  • Due to the difficulties of effectively addressing global stressors, an emerging recommendation is the focus of coral reef management on local scales (e.g. Anthony et al. 2014). A frequent challenge facing managers and policy makers at local levels relates to the maximisation of tourism benefits whilst simultaneously reducing its environmental impacts
  • Alternatively, previous experience and possible affinity and attachment to a specific dive site may influence how closely divers follow pre-dive briefings and affect their behaviour underwater, as suggested by place attachment theory
  • The methodologies which have been developed to minimise the environmental impact of SCUBA diving on coral reefs can be summarised as follows: (1) managing or restricting diver numbers, (2) regulating the locations in which SCUBA diving activities occur, (3) regulating the types of equipment used, and 4) implementing programmes which seek to manage the methods used by the dive industry in providing their services. Restricting diver numbers is based on the concept of a reef dive site’s ‘carrying capacity’; a level beyond which diving impacts become readily apparent.
  • Restriction of SCUBA diving equipment has focused on banning the use of accessories believed to increase reef contacts within marine protected areas such as gloves, muck sticks, or underwater cameras; however, such regulations are often unpopular within the SCUBA diving community
  • Governments and reef managers seek evidence that the effort expended in implementing programmes translates into measurable benefits; however, research into the effectiveness of such programmes at influencing diver behaviour and reducing diving impacts is limited.
  • In this study, we focused on dive operators participating in the Green Fins diving programme at three major dive locations within the Philippines.
  • Nonetheless, levels of dive supervision underwater would intuitively appear to be linked to rates of reef contact, and when examined, the willingness of dive guides to intervene in correcting diver behaviour underwater has been found to significantly reduce diver contact rates
  • Malapascua Island, Moalboal, and Puerto Galera.
  • divers may have been aware that a Green Fins compliance assessment was taking place, but they were unaware that diver contacts with the reef were being specifically recorded. Green Fins environmental assessments and diver observations were conducted simultaneously.
  • Dive guides and guest divers from 44 dive operators participating in the Green Fins programme were followed
  • Diver characteristics with potential to influence underwater behaviour were categorised as the following factors: diver qualification level (three levels), dive experience (five levels), and previous number of dives at site (three levels).
  • Divers were assigned a unique diver number, and then followed and observed underwater for the entire duration of their dive.
  • If the overall group was very large such that the dive guide could not be seen from the rear of the group, the pair immediately behind the dive guide was selected.
  • Compliance with the Green Fins approach was determined by utilising diver contact rates and dive guide intervention rates as at the dependent variables of interest, and by defining dive operators according to those who had received a high score (above the median score) versus those with a low score (below the median score) on the most recent conducted Green Fins assessment
  • The part of the body or item of equipment making contact with the reef was recorded as follows: hand, fin, knee, camera, muck stick (a handheld stainless steel or aluminium rod approximately 30 cm in length) and equipment (e.g. tank, submersible pressure gauges, octopus regulator), and multiple (parts of the body and equipment simultaneously). The time during the dive at which the contact occurred was also recorded.
  • If observable damage (i.e. breakage, obvious physical damage, or injury) occurred as a result of the contact this was recorded, together with the apparent awareness of the diver to the contact, regardless of damage caused.
  • Interventions were defined as an event in which the dive guide intervened in diver behaviour through signalling or demonstrating correct behaviour in order to minimise or prevent contact with the reef.
  • A total of 100 SCUBA divers were observed at three diving locations within the Philippines (Table 1). The majority (72 %) of these divers were male, and diving experience ranged from those completing diving training to those who were instructors elsewhere with experience of hundreds of dives.
  • Following dive completion, divers that had been observed underwater were asked to complete a survey to determine diver characteristics.
  • Most contacts were made with fins (45.5 %, n = 261); however, hands (19.5 %, n = 112) and dive equipment (15.9 %, n = 91) were also major contributors to the total number of contacts
  • Contacts made with a camera (77.7 %) accounted for the highest proportion of contacts which resulted in damage, followed by contacts made with the knee (43.3 %), multiple body and equipment parts (38.2 %), equipment (30.7 %), fins (29.8 %), hands (24.7 %), and muck sticks (23.5 %).
  • A total of 81 interventions were observed (in comparison to 573 reef contacts—see Fig. 4 for the distribution of contacts and interventions);
  • Camera systems were carried by 55 % of divers; camera-wielding divers accounted for 52.7 % of the total contacts made with the reef. Of divers who utilised a camera, 35 % carried a non-specialist compact type and 20 % carried an SLR type within a specialist underwater housing.
  • Mean (±SE) dive time was 49.3 ± 0.42 min. A total of 573 diver contacts with the reef were recorded during all assessed dives.
  • The difference in the frequency of interventions was statistically significant (ANOVA, f = 4.81, P = 0.03)
  • although a significant portion (36 %) appeared unaware of the contact they made with the reef.
  • In addition to overall contact levels, some studies have also quantified reef contacts either as the mean number of contacts per diver over the duration of a dive or the diver contact rate per minute of dive time. The mean contact rates of 5.7 contacts per dive, or 0.12 contacts per min, which we observed at dive sites in the Philippines are lower than those previously reported
  • All divers observed within the present study were diving with operators participating to various degrees in the Green Fins environmentally responsible diving programme.
  • Identifying factors and policy measures which influence SCUBA diver behaviour underwater can help coral reef managers determine where to most effectively focus effort and funding with respect to dive management. In this study, we found that 88 % of the divers observed made at least one contact with the reef at some point
  • Divers who are more conservation aware and who contact the reef less may preferentially choose to dive with environmentally ‘accredited’ dive operators; indeed, this assumption partially drives dive operator participation in such programmes.
  • Underwater interventions by dive guides have been suggested to be the most successful deterrent to diver contact with reefs (Barker and Roberts 2004). In this study, there was no significant difference in the intervention rates between dive centres of high and low Green Fins compliance. Therefore, we cannot attribute the observed difference in diver reef contact rates to differences in intervention rates between these two groups.
  • Studies examining the effect of carrying camera equipment on the frequency of diver contacts with the reef have produced conflicting results.
  • Additionally, the administration of a pre-dive briefing can influence diver contact rates underwater (Medio et al. 1997). The Green Fins programme incorporates the use of a pre-dive briefing that emphasises the importance of refraining from contacting the reef, which would be expected to result in lower diver contact rates.
  • A concern amongst representatives of the diving industry is the use of muck sticks to manipulate animals unnecessarily—pushing animals out of holes for better viewing, stressing animals to show customers their stress behaviour (e.g. an octopus changing colour), and physically breaking hard coral to be used in photographs.
  • When examining the part of the body or dive equipment which made contact with the reef, we found that the majority of contacts were made with fins, in agreement with Krieger and Chadwick (2013) and Rouphael and Inglis (1998).
  • It has previously been noted that dive guides customarily perform different roles at dive locations globally; at some locations, they act primarily to lead the dive group around the reef, whilst at others, pairing with and closely supervising individual divers throughout the course of a dive
  • this suggests that dive guides carry out the closest supervision during the initial phase of the dive and then switch to a ‘dive leader’ role at the front of a dive group.
  • This study provides evidence that the effective implementation of environmentally responsible practices, via programmes designed to reduce diving impacts, may translate to reduced diver reef contacts.
  • Many diver characteristics which might intuitively be expected to impact reef contact rates, such as level of qualification and overall experience, were not significant influencing factors in this study, and high versus low levels of Green Fins compliance did not influence the number of interventions made by dive guides underwater.
  • For continued economic benefit and conservation of Philippine reef dive locations, we recommend that management measures facilitate high levels of compliance with environmentally responsible diving programmes to reduce the impact of diving on coral reefs.
  • marble_bird on 07 Jul 20
     
    This article discusses a study performed at various diving locations in the Philippines to determine whether or not measures taken by Green Fin diving guides were effective in reducing contact with coral reef systems. The study also recorded the average number of contacts with the reef during a dive, as well as the equipment or body part which came into contact with the reef most often, and which actions resulted in the most damage. The study finds that adherence to Green Fin standards or other policies may significantly impact diver behaviors and reduce the level of contact with sensitive coral reefs during SCUBA dives.
obrediajones

Sustainable Hospitality: Eco-Friendly Industry Trends and Tips - 1 views

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  • “A large section of the hospitality industry is joining the unprecedented mobilization across the globe in mitigating negative environmental impacts and facing the many societal challenges ahead.”
  • key eco-friendly hotel industry trends
  • Cutting down on food waste
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  • Minimizing water usage beyond the hotel room
  • Eliminating plastic
  • Conserving energy
  • Creating a paperless hotel
  • Integrating sustainability into the hotel architecture
  • Eco-friendliness is evolving from a nice-to-have, on-trend hotel commodity to a must-have priority for a growing number of environmentally and socially conscious travelers.
  • In fact, 66% of global respondents (up 11% from the previous year) would “pay more for products and services from companies committed to positive social and environmental impact” (Nielsen, 2015).
  • a TUI global survey found that two-thirds of holidaymakers are willing “to make lifestyle trade-offs to benefit the environment” (TUI, 2017).
  • obrediajones on 20 May 20
     
    This article outlines key trends aimed at reducing the hospitality industry's negative impact on the environment. Ranging from the creation of paperless hotels, the "three-zero-concept", energy conservation, and the reduction of food and water waste. Showing how these combined efforts help to entice socially conscious travelers.
mtedd003

UN report: Time to seize opportunity, tackle challenge of e-waste | UNEP - UN Environme... - 0 views

www.unenvironment.org/...unity-tackle-challenge-e-waste

e-waste technology Hospitality solution green

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  • The world produces as much as 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) a year, weighing more than all of the commercial airliners ever made. Only 20% of this is formally recycled.
  • worth over $62.5 billion
  • Global e-waste production is on track to reach 120 million tonnes per year by 2050 if current trends continue,
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  • $62.5 billion, more than the GDP of most countries.
  • Less than 20% of e-waste is formally recycled, with 80% either ending up in landfill or being informally recycled – much of it by hand in developing countries, exposing workers to hazardous and carcinogenic substances such as mercury, lead and cadmium.
  • improper management of e-waste is resulting in a significant loss of scarce and valuable raw materials, such as gold, platinum, cobalt and rare earth elements.
    • mtedd003
      mtedd003 on 01 Sep 20
       
      The resources not consumed but still existing in landfills.
  • circular economy in which resources are not extracted, used and discarded, but valued and reused
  • Nigerian Government, the Global Environment Facility and UN Environment announced a $2-million investment to kick off the formal e-waste recycling industry in Nigeria.
  • 100,000 people work in the informal e-waste sector in Nigeria.
  • PACE is a public-private collaboration mechanism and project accelerator dedicated to bringing about the circular economy at speed and scale.
  • The UN E-waste coalition is a group of seven UN agencies who have come together to increase collaboration, build partnerships and more efficiently provide support to Member States to address the e-waste challenge.
  • mtedd003 on 01 Sep 20
     
    The Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) is a public-private group consisting of more than 50 heads from various internal and external organizations. The group intends to fight the route cause of e-waste by repairing the method for which technology is recycled. The plan of action is to establish a circular economy. Materials are consumed, trashed, and eventually sent to landfills or sent for workers in toxic unsafe conditions to extract the precious materials. The world produces 50 million tons of e-waste annually, accumulating a worth of almost $62 billion. 80% of e-waste is improperly recycled in dangerous polluted conditions, creating an environmental hazard and unethical work conditions. Valuable resources such as gold, are also lost due to this poor method of recycling.Nigeria is one of the many countries that has exploited thousands of workers in the recycling of e-waste. In an effort to reform this issue, the Nigerian government has invested $15 million to employ PACE's circular economy. The design of a circular economy allows for products to be either made for longer use or recycled in a sustainable way. The circular economy will allow for a more efficient and environmentally friendly method of harvesting these resources while providing sustainable job opportunities.
kenziemoody

Safe Meetings and Events: Your COVID-19 Playbook | Cvent Blog - 1 views

www.cvent.com/...safe-meetings-events

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  • l become expected for venues to be equipped with thermal scanning,
  • showing symptoms and can be immediately quarantined
  • a security measure expected by planners and attendees
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  • have virtual or hybrid alternatives as a replacement
  • thermal cameras at entry points
  • Event Diagramming tools to ensure you adhere to those guidelines
  • hotels and venues play a key role in the recovery of the industry
  • deliver safe experiences for everyone involved.
  • kenziemoody on 06 Oct 20
     
    Event planning and in-person meetings have been affected by COVID-19. Event planners and venues are taking major efforts to begin hosting in-person group functions again. To begin safe meetings again, industries have implemented increased levels of safety precautions. One of these steps industries are taking is thermal scanning. Thermal scanning is a product that gives an indication of COVID-19 symptoms. Venues are industries are expected to provide this service to stay ahead of the game. Hotels such as Wynn Las Vegas have implemented thermal cameras at entry points throughout the hotel. At my office, we have also added thermal cameras at entrances to the building. Majority of events have shifted virtually until there is a vaccine. Event diagramming tools can provide event planners with photo-realistic site tours in 3D. Event diagramming can also display to potential clients a diagram of thermal scanning stations, and social distancing floor signs. Event diagramming is a diagramming tool where you can update existing layouts. Overall, it can provide future clients with the satisfaction that events can deliver their vision while maintaining safety guidelines.
ivonneyee

Modern Management Technologies in the Hospitality Industry - 2 views

The article talks about how it's worth investing in proximity marketing to increase the speed of a customer's decision, increase engagement, and eloyalty. The article states that marketers who know...

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cingram21

Cloud Computing Trends & Future Technology 2021 | Datamation - 1 views

www.datamation.com/...cloud-computing-trends

cloud trends future security hybrid multimodel kubernetes contanerization cloud-native sustainability

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  • Enterprise leaders are quickly recognizing that not all clouds work for all of their needs, and some of their legacy systems and applications work better on their existing on-premises infrastructure. These realizations, and a growing need for both flexibility and reliable security, have ushered in a period of growth for hybrid and multicloud setups. 
  • which polled more than 2,600 global IT decision-makers globally – and highlighted that hybrid cloud is now the most common choice, with 46% of respondents now using a hybrid cloud (a 12% increase since their previous survey).
  • Instead of relying on embedded, native security features, tech experts are advocating for the increased use of managed security service providers (MSSPs) and a better organizational policy for user access management. Organizations are recognizing that security incidents can come from both internal accidents and external actors, so it’s important that all users are trained and compliant with an organization’s security policies.
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  • By implementing the ZTNA model for secure network access, IT teams can have full control over who is granted access, enters, and leaves the network at all times. This model has gained much more recognition since being mandated in President Biden’s executive order.”
  • The entire world is starting to shift its attention to Kubernetes and the orchestration of containers,” Cusimano said. “It’s the next iterative shift — we went from physical to virtual to cloud, and now we’re going to microservices and containers. 
  • “Cloud-native technologies will also lead and help companies to build, migrate, and modernize customer-facing and analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) apps more easily and at scale.”
  • cloud is typically more energy efficient than on-premises infrastructure, the growth of AI and the Internet of Things (IoT) is causing cloud technology to work harder than ever.
  • “Sustainability is a massive trend in IT – from enterprises seeking to ensure cloud providers leverage renewable energy in data centers to enterprises increasingly seeking to minimize their own supply carbon footprint via sustainably sourced, circular IT solutions,” Fenn said.
  • Although few cloud vendors have adopted the circular model, most are changing their business models to emphasize more renewable energy use, carbon offsets, and data center efficiency boosts.
    • cingram21
      cingram21 on 02 Sep 21
       
      This article discussed the five major trends and developments in cloud computing. The first point explains how there was a big trend towards cloud-only computing and away from on-premise infrastructure. We are realizing this isn't always the the best scenario and that a hybrid model allows for an enterprise to operate data-intensive processes while taking advantage of tech advancements associated with cloud computing. The second trend is utilizing "managed security service providers (MSSPs). This is because security is important to control both internally and externally. It also mentions "Zero-Trust Network Access" as a new executive order issued by President Biden. The third section discusses Kubernetes (Further research explained this is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.) Kubernetes is also known as "K8s." This is a large shift from physical on-site infrastructure to "containers." This is packaging software for the deployment and the sharing of technology. The reason this is a trend is because it is cost-effective and improves performance. The final major trend is sustainability efforts. Cloud technology is more energy-efficient than on-site infrastructure, but advancements in (IoT) is causing significant growth and use of cloud tech which requires increased energy consumption. Cloud vendors are changing to ensure they are using renewable energy, carbon offsets, and data center efficiency. The most interesting part of this to me is the Kubernetes and Containerization as I have yet to read or hear anything about this. Open source is always interesting. The story behind K8's being developed by Google and now an independent foundation is good for our society and a good trend.
    • cingram21
      cingram21 on 26 Sep 21
       
      This article discussed the five major trends and developments in cloud computing. The first point explains how there was a big trend towards cloud-only computing and away from on-premise infrastructure. We are realizing this isn't always the the best scenario and that a hybrid model allows for an enterprise to operate data-intensive processes while taking advantage of tech advancements associated with cloud computing. The second trend is utilizing "managed security service providers (MSSPs). This is because security is important to control both internally and externally. It also mentions "Zero-Trust Network Access" as a new executive order issued by President Biden. The third section discusses Kubernetes (Further research explained this is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.) Kubernetes is also known as "K8s." This is a large shift from physical on-site infrastructure to "containers." This is packaging software for the deployment and the sharing of technology. The reason this is a trend is because it is cost-effective and improves performance. The final major trend is sustainability efforts. Cloud technology is more energy-efficient than on-site infrastructure, but advancements in (IoT) is causing significant growth and use of cloud tech which requires increased energy consumption. Cloud vendors are changing to ensure they are using renewable energy, carbon offsets, and data center efficiency. The most interesting part of this to me is the Kubernetes and Containerization as I have yet to read or hear anything about this. Open source is always interesting. The story behind K8's being developed by Google and now an independent foundation is good for our society and a good trend.
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