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5 sustainable design ideas to take your hotel into the future - Insights - 0 views

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  • Roof gardens
  • reduce energy use by absorbing heat and acting as insulators for buildings, which also, in turn, helps to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.”
  • Sustainable furniture, fixtures and accessories
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  • carpet and bathroom tiles made from recyclable materials
  • using low or zero VOC paint in the walls
  • Using sustainable materials
  • Using LED lighting can not only help drive down energy costs but also reduce maintenance and cooling costs as well.
  • LED lighting fixtures
  • Water conservation solutions
  • otels can therefore benefit from utilizing water-efficient practices by upgrading equipment and improving operations.
  • Solar installation
  • 24/7 in the premises so a lot of energy is being consumed for power generation
  • It is not only cost-effective but also low maintenance, reliable and flexible.
  • Because sustainability is now a big factor in the success of a hotel, hotel operators must then take extra measures to delight their customers with their sustainable efforts.
  • aguar024 on 20 Nov 19
     
    And check out this 5 sustainable design ideas for hotels.
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12 Ways to Make Your Restaurant More Sustainable - Open for Business - 0 views

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  • Cook what’s in season.
  • keep your menu seasonal.
  • . Partner with the right producers.
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  • started their own kitchen garden for the restaurants and hired a gardener to tend it
  • Grow it yourself.
  • sustainable supply chain for the industry
  • Start small.
  • Buy locally, in bulk.
  • local suppliers
  • Think beyond the food.
  • Think about things like water usage and train your staff
  • biodynamic, carbon-neutral and organic wines
  • chefs to learn about how ingredients grow
  • Make a road map,
  • linen napkins i
  • hey held a special event with a dedicated menu meant to demonstrate what it’s like to have autism; since many autistic children tend to separate food according to shape and color, they presented different courses with items focused on shape and color, meant to be eaten individually
  • Manage your waste — all of it
  •  landfill, is the most expensive kind of waste for restaurants
  • Food waste can weighed
  • Recycle glass and cardboard
  • Do your homework.
  • look for opportunities to minimize any cost increases that sustainable practices may bring
  • rain your staff to be passionate about the cause.
  • Extend your mission to the community.
  • Start by printing your menu on recycled paper
  • Plan for the long haul.
  • Jamie estimates that he spends 10-12% more up front on equipment, but he says it’s easy to recoup those losses in other areas, such as buying salvaged pieces for furnishings. Plus, you’ll save money on energy costs. Jamie bought an energy-efficient coffee machine and eco-friendly refrigerators, and he’s confident that he will actually make money on those purchases in the new few years.
  • Prioritize customer satisfaction above everything else.
  • communicate your restaurant’s mission and vision,
  • delivering an exceptional guest experience.
  • aguar024 on 20 Nov 19
     
    This week I want to share two articles. I realized that on the discussion we all or almost all of us used the same examples as sustainable methods or strategies. There a million of ways to become sustainable in this industry. Check this examples or ideas for a more sustainable restaurant.
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10 Event Email Marketing Examples That Convert ASAP - 0 views

blog.eventbank.com/ent-email-marketing-strategies E-marketing strategies for events is one of the best connections and receptions you could have with your attendees. As mentioned on article. can be more productive that social media if used correctly. impulse attendees to share information or relatives wi
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  • Leverage your speakers in your email.
  • In larger events, you won’t really need to justify their presence if they’re representing reputable businesses, but for smaller headcounts, you need to really leverage your speaker’s personality and background to justify a reason for an email recipient to go to this event.
  • This is one of the best ways to not only target your networks but also networks of people in your industry.
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  • Early Bird offer?Bonuses.
  • You could always give away bonuses that make sense to your audience. Promise some great freebies and swag bag offers
  • to early bird attendees and make them feel valued
  • Follow up this email with a count down to push more registrations, something like “1 week left to save!” would do just fine.
  • You just need a title of the event, a short description, date, location, a schedule that’s easily read, some images, and that’s about it.
  • The other great thing about the poster-type emails is that the image used, or a screenshot of the email’s content is social media friendly and can be easily used in social media posts.
  • Video content is one of the most engaging tools to leverage,
  • add a link for contacts to watch the video on another host
  • bolder and go for straight-up embedded video content.
  • You can generate and embed a count down timer easily if you can find some tools on Google, of course, free tools are tough to align with your branding, so if that’s important to you, you can always pay for a decent tool to generate an embeddable count down timer for you.
  • think holistically about the value of all your events combine, package it up, and push it out.
  • Consistent Color Schem
  • Geo-targeted emails get a 26% increase in open rates.
  • hank your attendees for attending, and really push the value of the post-event data to them.
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6 Event Trends You Need to Know for 2019 | ITA Group - 0 views

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  • ways to engage attendees differently and encourage innovation and creativity
  • A great way to start is by changing up the facilitation or presentation style
  • some unexpected venues
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  • Private lofts and businesses are starting to rent areas that would previously have been off-limits, which makes attendees feel like they’re getting exclusive access.
  • he popularity of eSports events is influencing event connections.
  • Create policies outlining inappropriate behavior,
  • se of voice and facial recognition will increase and will improve overall experience and engagement.
  • dding areas or just time where attendees can unplug from the event and allow them to process what is happening and reconnect, allows them to come back energized and engaged.
  • Many companies’ risk management plans cover terrorism and communicable illness, but more than ever, tech security and sexual harassment policies need to be included as well
  • 61% say they go to live events and tournaments to connect with friends they’ve met and play with online, and 41% said they attend to forge new relationships.
  • hannels to report issues, and protocol for staff on how to deal with allegations.
  • With the increase in vegan and healthier diets, there is an influx in looking for new ways of clean eating.
  • increase their sustainable operations.
  • aguar024 on 11 Nov 19
     
    In this article the writer mentions different trends and solutions to common situations on the event industry. From sustainability all the way to methodologies to avoid sexual harassment.
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Hotels, Technology, & the Cybersecurity that Protects Them - Armor - 0 views

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  • Hotels, Technology, & the Cybersecurity that Protects Them
  • introduction of virtual assistants like Alexa in hotel rooms
  • biometrics for guest access into their rooms instead of the standard room keys
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  • The 2018 Trustwave Global Security Report listed the hospitality industry as one of the top five industries subjected to network breaches each year. The more technology added to help guests also means the industry needs to think harder about how they store and protect their guests’ data. If a hacker compromises the technology or infrastructure environment where guest data resides, guests could have their personal data compromised.
  • mobile keys
  • hat’s most worrisome is the amount of information collected and stored by Internet of Things (IoT) devices, like these virtual assistants and the mobile keys solution. After all, personal data has always been a prized target of cybercriminals.
  • register your fingerprint at the front desk
  • the balance between usability and security for their apps and software is critical.
  • Consumers, who are most likely to be victims, have their share of responsibilities.
  • osting on social media about how fun a vacation is could notify attackers that your valuables are sitting at home unprotected
  • it’s the hotel’s IT infrastructure that’s usually the targe
  • Unfortunately, most hotels do not have a dedicated on-site cybersecurity staff (or even IT staff for that matter).
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5 things shaping U.S. hotel investment | Hotel Management - 0 views

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  • exceeding 4 percent during the second quarter of the year and strengthened by consumer confidence along with business investment,
  • doesn’t mean there are no clouds on the horizon, especially as all eyes watch what the Federal Reserve will do next.
  • tax-deferred exchanges, real estate depreciation and the mortgage interest deduction
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  • aware of the new 20-percent deduction, which has restrictions based on income and asset base but also offers upside for entities that qualify.
  • the bonus depreciation provision will phase out after 2023, but for now investors can expense personal property in real estate assets acquired after Sept. 27, 2017.
  • business interest deductions.
  • which has hit a 30-year high in the U.S.—in some markets
  • hat would mean average daily rate and revenue per available room would start to slow in those markets.
  • s up 2 percent year over year with almost 180,000 new rooms in the works as of June.
  • Transaction pace increased about 4 percent during the past 12 months ending in June
  • Home-sharing services are still top of mind for the hotel industry because many hotel guests have flocked to these accommodations.
  • t’s been hovering near 3 percent since
  • Capital is abundant now, but lending could tighten quickly if interest rates rise fast
  • aguar024 on 24 Oct 19
     
    This articles explaines in 5 different stages or factos how investment actions are taken in the hospitality and tourisim industry. According to Marcus and Milichap on september this year they wrote this article where it is apprecaible all the new trends and changes of how technology have affected positivitly the investment on the hotels and tourism industries this past years in the United States.
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Top 6 Hotel Accounting Software - 1 views

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  • streamlining routine accounting activities such as billing and making them seamless in nature
  • This hotel accounting software can prepare professional invoices and financial reports.
  • Cloud-based h
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  • leverages automation and integration
  • flexible charts of financial information
  • s restaurants, clubs and resorts,
  • based on the Cloud
  • check occupancy %, RevPar, review GSS info, import STR, compare budgets, revenue & expenses, reconcile bank accounts and do much more.
  • can support various hotel ownership structures for example franchises, multinational units and other corporate arrangements
  • Based in the Cloud
  • accounting activities simpler to perform.
  • garner bookings without having to pay commissions
  • focuses on boosting performance through leveraging computing power.
  • allows for scalability
  • hotel portfolio.
  • aguar024 on 17 Oct 19
     
    The great part about this article is that it list the cons and pros of different accounting systems for hotels.
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The 29 Best Event Management Tools for Event Planners - 1 views

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  • increases attendance by 20%, productivity by 27%, and profit margin by 20-30% on average.
  • Capterra,
  • aguar024 on 10 Oct 19
     
    As a full time event planner I have learned that softwares are the best tool to have when working on this industry. The reason why I wanted to share this article is because I learned about so many software that I didnñt knew before and feel that they work great or at least look amazingly well equipt.
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What is Hotel PMS? | Oracle - 2 views

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  • seamless guest experience.
  • that replaced time-intensive, paper and spreadsheet-heavy processes.
  • is now a critical business operations system
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  • Enhanced customer lifetime value.
  • Hoteliers are challenged with providing a personalized guest experience
  • olutions help hoteliers deliver the experience guests want, while efficiently managing their business.
  • Connect operations and financial processes by leveraging prebuilt integrations
  • Increase room occupancy and ADR through real-time rate
  • ster innovation.
  • Lower IT complexity and costs.
  • rease in RevPAR and ADR.
  • aditionally, a hotel property management system was defined as a platform that enabled a hotel or group of hotels to manage front-office capabilities, such as booking reservations, guest check-in/check-out, room assignment, managing room rates, and billing.
  • aguar024 on 03 Oct 19
     
    This articles talks about how the PMS programs are being redefined by new technologies that not only enhance the productivity of the hotel it self but has millions of positive effects, event towards a more ecological and eco friendly environment.
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Best Eco-Friendly Practices for Organic Restaurants - 0 views

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  • aguar024 on 26 Sep 19
     
    This articles explains different methods or tips that can be used on the restaurant industry that are efficiently green. One of the tips they gave was to donate or recycle old electronics used at the restaurants to otheer facilities. Hope you all enjoy it.
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Survey Shows Generation Z Grads Want Mobile Preferences at Work - 0 views

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  • The survey reveals what these new employees expect from their employers with respect to flexible work options, company communications and technology.
  • iven historically low unemployment rates and a strong labor market, it is important for employers to underst
  • hat employees expect from them to ensure their success not only when it comes to employee retentio
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  • n, but also to create the most attractive working environment. theEMPLOYEEapp’s survey was conducted for this purpose.”
  • 45 percent) classified themselves as starting or pursuing deskless employment (not requiring the use of desktop computers in their daily work
  • (55 percent) plan to work in office environments in industries such as professional services.
  • Nearly half (46 percent) were high school graduates and 54 percent were college graduates.
  • remote work options (49 percent
  • high quality training and on-boarding (48 percent)
  • communication of important company information and cultural fit/values that align with their own (both at 33 percent).
  • As for how they want to receive information, top responses were in-person communications (44 percent), via intranet (34 percent), and via text or SMS messages (30 percent).
  • aguar024 on 18 Sep 19
     
    I felt this article was interesting and related with how technology has revolutionized so much in the past years. This articles explains the wishes or requirements that Generation Z new employees or graduates for their first job experience.
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Despegar, Latin America's top online travel agency, signs multi-year agreemen... - 0 views

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  • , the leading technology provider to the global travel industry, today announced its renewed agreement with Despegar (NYSE: DESP), the leading online travel agency (OTA) in Latin America.
  • The multi-year contract extension ensures Despegar’s continued access to Sabre’s market-leading global dist
  • ribution system (GDS), propelling the OTA’s service to an estimated 140 million unique visitors.
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  • The OTA will also profit from the speed of results the Sabre GDS delivers across the distribution system’s vast breadth of content.
  • they reliably deliver technologies that are easy for us to adopt and easy for our customers to value.
  • Sabre Corporation is the leading technology provider to the global travel industry.
  • software, data, mobile and distribution solutions are used by hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotel properties to manage critical operations, including passenger and guest reservations, revenue management, flight, network and crew management.
  • aguar024 on 11 Sep 19
     
    One of the reasons why I felt this article was very insteresting is tha I have use "despegar before and I have also not used or decided not to use this travel agency because of the "not friendly" sfoftware or technology they had on their website. As a customer I feel this would give an amazing positive revenue to the company. This articles texplain how this GDS software called SABRE has sign a contract of extension with Despegar.com
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Robotics in Hospitality: How Will It Impact Guests? - 1 views

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  • aimed at improving guests’ experience
  • the Henn-na in Nagasaki, has chosen to replace its front desk staff with robots
  • Visitors can check-in, check-out, and the robots can respond to questions.
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  • This can save time in housekeeping by sending off the amenities that a repeat guest orders
  • one of the biggest bonuses of using robots is their ability to search and respond to customer requests for information instantly.
  • aguar024 on 05 Sep 19
     
    On this article we would learned about how the robotics started to integrate into the hospitality industry. How slowly the technology became part of a human activity and the effect on the guest of Hotels especially in Asia.
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