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My article this week is about how GDS (Global Distribution Systems) can be compared to a seatbelt. The author opens the article discussing the main reasons we still continue to use seatbelts; even though they aren't the most comfortable or fashionable items to use, they still do their jobs in saving our lives when it comes to a collision of some sort. The author is in favor of GDS and makes the claim that like seatbelts, the GDS may not be the most up-to-date or may not appear to be as nice as other local systems to each individual airline, but they get the job done and there are no other systems out there like it that we know of (no other systems that do everything he GDS system does that is). The main topic of discussion that the article is concerned with is the recent decision made by the company Lufthansa to start charging its customers an additional surcharge for using GDS systems instead of going through its own system. The author clearly makes it know that she doesn't believe Lufthansa when they say they are charging this additional surcharge because GDS is the most expensive channel to go through. "Because there's no reason to think that an airline should expect to distribute its products without any cost, Lufthansa's recent gambit seems more of a tactic for increasing lagging direct distribution... Its strategy seems to rest in shifting distribution costs to corporate buyers" claims Rose, the author of the article. The author also points out some of the draw backs of using agency portals, the main reason being that a customer cannot compare rates of other competitors and that agency portals cannot handle high volume transactions like the GDS can. It is also made known that there are costs that come with other channels as well, like the prices you pay for building airline websites and keeping them updated. The author concludes that "Given the history of negotiations between airlines and GDSs, it's impossible to know whether Lufthansa is using DCC as

The innovation of information technology is a trend in the hospitality industry. Information technology can improve market growth. Investment in technology can be exemplified by restaurants' expenditure on IT. One chart showed that there are 26% restaurant investment between 1%-2% of revenue on IT. 25% invest between 2%-3% of revenue on IT. Only 6% investment greater than 6% of revenue on IT. IT investment of portion takes really low in all different kinds of the sector of investment. But in my opinion, IT investment is necessary for the hospitality industry. It deserves to invest more. Because people rely on technology information and product more and more.

This is a very detailed article about the various ways that hospitality firms are utilizing technology and using their capital to invest in IT related projects. A variety of hospitality firms were surveyed to produce this article on ways they plan to invest in IT and the various projects they feel are most worthy of their dollars. Some of the areas that were most noted and listed as worthy of additional IT investment include improving technology to improve financial performance and enhancements in CRM and loyalty programs, guest experience technology and ensuring the guest stay is always seen as paramount, as well as improved information and cyber security technology as well as an increased focus on understanding big data and improving employee engagement. This article is highly detailed in what it analyzes and it lists a long list of potential investments that a variety of companies will be taking on in the future. The focus of this article was on the year 2017, but many of these concepts still apply to the hospitality industry today and well into the future. Many of these things listed are also things we can see that many companies worked on leading to 2018 and continue to work on and it is the companies that put these IT investments at the forefront that will be leading the hospitality enterprises of the future.

This article talks about a study that analyzed over 400 companies regarding the positive impact and profitability of IT Technology investments. It was said that IT technology can offer more room for creativity and innovation. Two things crucial to stay on top in this industry. IT investments have shown to produce a positive impact on revenue growth as well. As competition continues to occur, IT investments will continue to increase profitability and managers should continue to invest in things that will help to provide for them financially.

Not everyone may not familiar with the accounting journal entries that happened in restaurants and hotels since food sales and staying at a hotel are not quite the same as normal goods being sold in a retail sore. In this article, the author has introduced the accounting records and record journal entries which restaurants and hotels set to keep track of business transactions. The whole process includes four main parts: recording revenue, costs of sales, operating expenses, and capital purchases.

Going green not only helps the environment, but it invests in communities and the environment.  Many guests are looking for places to stay that offer more green trends.  

This article gives information on the new trend of hospitality: sustainability. Being sustainable does not only save an organization financially by reducing the cost of water and energy but also can be used as a marketing tool to gain new guests via social responsibility. Sustainability has become the future of the industry.

This article talks about how cloud computing can solve many problems for an organization, such as protecting sensitive data and reduced the costs and risks associated with storing it. Some of the advantages include increased security (though many think otherwise), protected data in natural disasters (the cloud provides many back up solutions for data), flexible payment options for storing and protecting data, cost efficiency, creating unique platforms for businesses based on cloud applications, increased mobility of data and operations, increased collaboration capabilities with other employees and sectors of your industry, and increased technical support from cloud professionals.

Accor S.A. is a French multinational hospitality company that owns, manages and franchises hotels, resorts and vacation properties. It is the single largest hospitality company in Europe, and the sixth largest worldwide. Accor operates in 100 countries, with more than 4,800 hotels and 280,000 employees worldwide.

This article describes the importance of accounting in the tourism business. The article starts by providing a brief history of accounting and the concept of tourism business. The importance of accounting in the tourism business includes measurement, disclosure, and auditing. The author defines measurement as "the process of identifying and quantifying economic activities." These measurements help in determining the profitability of an organization's operations and its financial position. Disclosure is the process of communicating the accounting measures to the various users of the information. The article describes auditing as "the process by which specialized accounting professionals attest to the reliability of the measurement and communication process." Accounting plays a critical role in verifying the incomes and expenditures per field of operation. Field of operation in a hotel refers to those sections of the hotel in which the production procedure of the tourist goods and services, as well as their availability, takes place with the purpose of achieving profit.

This article first introduces the history and development of accounting, and then introduces tourism business and hotel business respectively. Finally, the article states that the role of accounting procedure is catalytic since it is regarded as a source from which core abilities are subsequently transformed into competitive advantages. Accountants can find and reveal weakness in business operations, reduce accidents, avoid accidental property losses, and support hotel management.

This article explains the pros and reasons a POS system is important for hotels both big and small. As stated a hotel's POS should provide a seamless guest experience, expand service opportunities, better billing, and useful reports. It is important to look for a POS system that compliments your hotel and provides these kinds of services.

This article demonstrates the significance of GDS in cutting cut the operation costs in the airline industry, and thus, improves profitability. The article explains that Air India solved its financial problems by implementing GDS. The use of GDS in domestic ticketing helped the company to reduce its expenditure and earn more revenue. Thus, this is an effective method that modern airlines can use to increase their profit margins.

This article was very interesting because it shows how the maintenance of the hospitality facilities can really impact a business. We learned in this article that insufficient maintenance can render a lower profit for an investor or the owner regardless whether they want to sell the hotel or not later. We learned that proper upkeep reduces the expense of improvement projects. What can help run a sustained well-run hospitality operation is a preventative program. The only thing that can help you control your maintenance budget is a preventative maintenance program that can help you calculate when to replace carpeting, air conditioner, etc. Meeting up with the hotel supervisors repeatedly allows facility managers to really have a good evaluation on maintenance issues.

Its from the company Lowe's perspective of the maintenance of hospitality facilities

Great article! A preventive maintenance plan or program is definitely a must in order to reduce costs in the long run. It is important that the staff be trained to properly implement the plan and make sure that things are being done properly.

Hotels and resorts are constantly searching for cost-effective, eco-friendly solutions. Outdated physical plants systems can be a drain on financial resources, and often fail causing further expenditures and service recovery for the guests effected by the outage. Danvest and Pon Power have launched a solar-diesel power plants that offer the efficiency of a diesel unit with the eco-consciousness of a solar powered unit. Capable of being 100% solar powered in the day, this system is very attractive to properties seeking recognition for being a "green" property, as well as the financial viability of harnessing solar energy.

This article mainly describes the differences between local and cloud PMS. This paper mainly puts forward six different directions: improving hotel efficiency, improving staff productivity, automatic software upgrade, security, cost reduction, free service market (SMP) application. Through a brief introduction and comparison, it shows that cloud PMS is the future development trend. Cloud PMS provides flexibility, simplifies workflow, custom options, new ideas for mobile front desk and mobile access, while eliminating management hassles and maintaining your local solutions.

Cloud computing is ideal for the hospitality industry. There is no need for upfront hardware or software purchases. A hotel, for instance, pays for services as it needs them which gives it flexibility in expenditures. For hospitality businesses that are often seasonally operated, the cloud allows them to scale the services they need depending upon seasonal demands: Increase computing when busy, scale back when things slow down.

I like you opinion that is scalablility. It needs inclination probably. In technology field many Cloud computings are cooperating with estimations. It needs more view points to prove that it's a strength for Cloud computing. According to Cloud computing methods, some chances based on one register matching to one password are possible. I think it's a fresh era to talk about many computers operating together to consider whether some jobs for related people could work together. Thinking about more sensitive site of cloud network. They are efficient in bank running. I think it's a relative reason to help people to know more about scalability in Cloud computing hospitality area. To make it more appearing to customers, the manager should take a purchase options on the view side that I love it. It's multi task. It's enterprising. According to passages, many opinions could be choosing from tabs due to period and seasons. I want to make sure about scalability that clients and customers are good enough for them to make more multiple options to take a preference look. It's financial economic computing assistance too maybe according to cost I think. In words, I think technology should keep scalability to let other clients and customers to put favors on it. No matter Sundays or cruise days.

This article discusses how cloud computing is already taken into affect in the hotel industry. They used examples such as mobile check-ins using the online system. I can vouch for this because in my current hotel we use the mobile key service and this creates a contactless check in process. On our end of the stick we process the credit card on file and check them in and email the guest a welcome letter and advising they may use the mobile key to enter their room. This has benefited customer service experience especially with COVID still being a conflict in our industry. The cloud computing caters to the need of new access as this article states.

This article provides insight on three various types of IT providers and there methodologies. It definitely emphasizes the benefits of specialized companies that focus on cloud computing as their IT service and business model and their ability to b=continually adapt to the changing environment and their desire to create long term relationships. It also talks about how larger IT companies are more focused on strategy rather than implementation of systems. It also talks about how the larger IT companies are much more focused on their own profit than providing services to the client and how cheaper off shore IT companies basically provide the same services at a lesser quality

As we look at capital expenditures in technology vs income we see that many vehicles are implementing apps. On star was thriving at one point and available in many American made cars however due to the sudden fall off, other replacements have come up. Ford has now emerged to put in place amazon Alexa in over 700,000 of their vehicles. this will offer an Alexa skill that coincides with the vehicles smarts features and offer a much easier use of car adjustments and car controls for many ford owners.

This article gives examples of the various types of cloud computing and their advantages and disadvantages. It shows that there are cloud-based options that can be appropriate for every business.