An Event planner has an interesting, fun and time consuming Job. The main tasks of event planners are to coordinate and manage conferences, meetings and parties. Some planners work exclusively organizing a specific type of event, such as those who specialize in wedding planning. Others may work with large corporate clients or smaller private groups. Many planners run their own businesses, while others may work for event planning agencies. Due to the nature of the work, many planners work long and irregular hours. As far as for Education requirements, The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that there are no universal educational requirements needed to start a career as an event planner. Nevertheless, they need a certain set of skills, and one way they may be developed is by completing a bachelor's degree program in hospitality, communications or public relations. Common core classes in these programs include risk management, event coordination and professional ethics. Some programs allow students to specialize their education through courses specifically intended for wedding planning while other programs may feature courses for students interested in careers organizing sports and entertainment events. Furthermore, it is very important that event planners have phenomenal communication and organizational skills.

This article on E marketing looks at the increase use of video marketing over reading. The article states that video is increasingly becoming the chosen method for learning and marking. Statistics show that over 90% of people who uses the internet would prefer to watch a video over reading an article. Furthermore the research showed that video can help increase a viewer's overall intellectual capacity by 55%. In an attempt to use the powerful effect of video as an educational tool to benefit hotel and travel professionals, TIG Global a subsidiary of MICROS Systems, Inc. and a leading interactive marketing company for hospitality and travel, in recent times launched a new e-marketing video resource "ask the experts". The series is intended to empower and educate hospitality professionals around the world, providing them with the opportunity to ask, vote and view answers to their most complex questions related the e-marketing.

(First I would like to say I am not promoting this program in any way. Because this article talks about security that is the only reason I use this article.) Security is a word that is spoken about very often; it is on people minds everyday and maybe every second. Privatesky, online cloud base security software, claims to have the best security system on the market. The service is free, fast, one-click encryption for messages, files and information. The security software is activated by a click of a button from within Outlook, a web browser or via any browser-based application on a PC, MC tablet or Smartphone. HTTPS is a very secure system and Privatesky claims to be better.

Motorola Solutions, Inc (MS) conducted a study and discovered that IT (information technology) spending is expected to rise in the hospitality filed in the years to come, practically in 2011. The main reason for the increase in spending on IT is because of the guest experience. According to MS, fifty- six percent of hospitality establishments plan to increase mobile investment to better outfit their workforces, advance operational efficiencies and boost the customer experience. The survey main facts included three areas; One, to elevate the guest experience Hospitality decision makers are investing in mobile technologies to support customer-facing applications that improve guest services by handling wireless email, guest/attendee check-in, table-side order/payment or event ticketing, among others. Two, to empower the employees by giving them the correct tools, fifty-nine percent of respondents currently deploying mobile and wireless technology witnessed an increase in employee productivity and efficiency, while 55 percent saw improved sales results. Finally, to enable operational efficiency, improvement, reliability, and extending range of current wireless data networks are the top three drivers behind 802.11n WLAN adoption - all critical network features to meet greater data volumes and increasing demands for access from the customer and mobile workforce. Seventy-five percent of hospitality organizations surveyed already have wireless LAN (WLAN) installed in their facilities. In North America, approximately one third of these venues have 802.11n, while European venues predominately have 802.11b/g.

Accounting is very essential in any business. If not done correctly and accurately this can destroy a business. Hospitality Accounting Services is a multi-faceted company that is specializes in accounting procedures for the hotel industry. Furthermore, they provide clients with internal control auditing, data archiving and report automation systems and hotel information systems consulting.

The very first cash register was designed by James Ritty from Ohio in 1897. He designed the cash register so that his employees would not still from him. Today, this cash register is called a Point of Sale System (POS). It is more powerful than ever before. Nearly each and every business uses a POS system. A modern POS system is very powerful and efficient. They can store, track and retrieve all types of data. All the information can be accessible from anywhere and anytime, thanks to cloud computing.

Traditional PMS functionality is still the critical core at every property. By tracking and managing all aspects of guests' data, it's both a source and collection point for the crucial activity and preference information that forms the basis of all future relationships with the guest. But with the change of technology and the manner we do business today, hotels now need a wider function set than what a traditional PMS provides. Having a PMS on the web and in the clouds is getting more popular. These new Web services make it easier for new vendors to develop fresh approaches and link them quickly and effectively into established systems, providing hoteliers with richer and more varied options. There are more advantages than disadvantages when using cloud computing. The world is changing rapidly and in other for hotels to survive, they have to keep up with those changes.

As Americans tries to go paper less in many areas, the process is taking longer than expected. A survey conducted by TNS Global Market asks Americans if they would be willing to go paperless. Here are the results: 48% would be willing to reduce their use of newspapers, 45.9 % would reduce their use of magazines, 37.6 % are happy to reduce their use of forms, contracts, documents, 31.6% are willing to reduce their use of books and 6.1% would be willing to reduce their use of toilet paper. What do you think of that 6.1% that is willing to reduce the use of toilet paper?

This article illustrates how using e-commerce can increase a hotels profits/revenue. In the article three major strategies are being used. Customer acquisition and retention, personalized service and web site upgrade are the three strategies mentioned in the article. The customer acquisition and retention strategy involves of initiation of customer loyalty program, email campaigns, and continues web site improvement and the web site as a single stop shop. The personalized service strategy consists of personalized content presentation and advance customer care. The web site upgrade includes of creation of micro sites, implementation of content management tool and quick web site searches.

The demands from guest on updated technology in the hotels are higher than ever before. In order for hotels to keep up with those demands, the hoteliers have to think ahead. The speed (bandwidth) of the internet is very important for the guest. The hotels that provide the guest with the best technology will stay on top. Today, hotels can increase its bandwidth at a very reasonable price without busting its company budget. The answer to that is cloud competing and bandwidth management. Bandwidth management allows the hotels to give guest different type of internet speed. Which is very smart, business guest the hotels can be offered a faster speed than a non business guest, and the brilliant part of this systems is that everyone is on the same network/server.

Backing up your computer data is very essential. Many properties may not realize how important it is to back up their data. Imagine you, a human being losing all the information you have learnt from the day you were born. You would be lost and confuse. So same for a company, if all their data are lost the property would be in severe trouble. Today backups can be done in many ways. Some are more expensive than the other. Drives like Tapes and CDs/DVDs are less expensive to use than Micro drives. Another way to backup you data is online. Online backups are getting very popular with all types of properties. Some backup data are stored on site and others offsite. In case of fire or theft to a property, offsite backup comes in very handy. Also, it is very important to test your backup data on a regular schedule.