The author of the article breaks down event planning in 8 steps. He states that you should know why you are having this event and when. You should also know how much money you have to spend for the event then knowing where your event will be. Event planning is big undertaking so you want to make sure that you have the correct software weather it be for ticket and payments or signs or live streaming etc.You should do your research for vendors if you can bring outside ones in, if not see if the venues vendors have deals that you can utilize. You need to know why people are coming to your event and what it will take to motive those people to come and how to get them to come again.

This article is about how to e-Market your hotel. Being that there are over 700,000 hotel and resorts world wide marketing is very important to your establishment. The article advises to use separate marketing campaigns for each generation, by doing email marketing. Social media is great place to market for hospitality.The article also advises to make you website stand out from the rest with photos.

This article is about how investing in your IT will increase your profits. Investing in IT will yield a higher profit even more so than advertising or research and development. You see bigger profit even more than if you lowered your operating expenses.

The property management system is important because it is the brain of the hotel. The PMS makes sure that operations of the hotel is coherent. Interfaces lowers the need for onsite it support. There are different interfaces such as booking engines, inventory management channel manager, credit card point of sale and many others. As long as the PMS connects with the rest of the hotel is will be the most important technology in the hotel.

It is no surprise that in a time of a pandemic like Covid-19 the hospitality industry and restaurants are having a difficult time due to social distancing and e-commerce would be doing great. Media and marketing service firm Engine did a survey of 1000 people online and 31% of the people indicated the they were going to increase shopping online then just 7 days later that number went to 42% which was a 35% increase. 80% of people indicated that they would be cutting back on going to restaurants and 62% would not travel for business.E commerce will definitely be here to stay.

Virgin Voyages which is the new adults only cruise line from Richard Branson is one of the most sustainable cruises in the industry. Sustainability is the core of Virgin Voyages values. Virgin Voyages actively seeks out partners that are green and sustainability friendly as well like Intelligentsia Coffee and Emerald Brand. Intelligentsia Coffee will be served complimentary on Scarlet Lady which is Virgin Voyages first ship. Intelligentsia uses a direct trade model which means that they purchase directly from the growers from coffee producing regions. Emerald Brand produces tree free and plastic free products such as bath and facial tissue, straws, bottles etc. Virgin Voyages will no have any single use items on their ships. In addition guest will be have filtered and sparkling water complimentary on board from Natura filtered water filing stations.

This article is about the first adults only cruise line Virgin Voyages by Richard Branson wearable band. The wearable band would replace the traditional key card that sailors use to gain access to their cabins and cashless purchases on board as well as gain access to VIP areas for suite guest like Richard's Rooftop.The hardware for the band is beautiful and can be worn even after the cruise is over as a keepsake. Being that Virgin Voyages prides themselves on sustainability the band is made from recycled ocean plastic.