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Integrations | PMS: Real-time integration with major PMS's | e-GDS - 0 views

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  • e-GDS Channel Manager automates inventory and rate updates from your PMS to keep all sales channels up-to-date and with real-time availability.
  • Some PMS's already provide 2-way connections, allowing you to send rates, availabilities and receive bookings into your e-GDS, as one channel.
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    This covers PMS and GDS relationship and how they communicate.
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Why AI is the Future of the Food Industry | Nasdaq - 1 views

  • several developments that have recently become mainstream: phrases like ‘farm-to-fork’ and ‘buy local,’ organic sections in almost every supermarket, and alternative meats in fast food restaurants are all indicative of rising awareness that food is about more than taste.
  • These changes in food consciousness are important in that they are pushing the conversation towards sustainability.
  • we need to also start looking at the optimization of agriculture as a data management problem. It is precisely here that AI can make a big contribution.
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  • AI is a natural ally in this environment, as all forms of machine learning require robust data inputs to be truly effective.
  • Consumer environments play the largest role in lowering food waste, and AI can also help here in some surprising ways.
  • At the top of the list, inventory control systems could make huge improvements if they were enhanced by data tools that were as wide as possible in scope.
  • AI will also be utilized on the manufacturing side to develop products more targeted to consumer demand.
  • AI can provide better monitoring and analysis of how food gets from farms to people, offering predictive metrics for retailers and money-saving incentives for consumers.
  • AI will have a big role to play as people incorporate more of their personal health data into shopping lists that will factor in purchasing history with the global movements described above.
  • Recent developments in machine learning and data management are offering some very promising solutions toward optimizing our food system.
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    This article covers the how AI has played a big role in helping the food industry especially with food waste. This is through inventory control systems, monitoring and providing analysis on how the food gets to farms, predictive metrics, personal health data, and developments in machine learning.
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Using Proximity-based Technology At Events - Eventeem - 0 views

  • Proximity-based technologies provide brands unique opportunities both to interact with customers and deliver content straight to their devices.
  • Proximity-based technology is the perfect way to add interactivity to a campaign, through both content delivery, as well as other, more campaign-specific methods.
  • Beacons act as geographic points, where a device which meets the appropriate criteria e.g.
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  • This can range from a notification of deal offers, a tactic used by US supermarket giant Target in over 50 stores nationwide, to a small piece of content.
  • Sharing-based Loyalty Card:
  • A live Competition:
  • A “Second Screen” Experience:
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    This article speaks about the tole of Proximity based technology in events. It covers the benefits it brings and how it can work for companies. They present great examples on how companies have successfully used this technology.
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Augmented Reality Event Planning: 5 Mind Blowing Ideas - 0 views

  • Augmented reality is a hardware filter we can use to see our world but with an image, sound, or effect on top of it.
  • Virtual reality, on the other hand, is a totally immersive experience that often requires a full headset and controller system to enjoy. 
  • Train your event staff and planning team
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  • Showcase sponsorship packages.
  • Take advantage of fully immersive trips.
  • Speed up the RFP process
  • Adopt an AR app that drives event traffic
  • The only limitations to virtual reality and augmented reality in event planning lie in your own imagination.
  • From inception to creation, VR and AR have proven to be welcome event additions for both the companies who use them and the attendees who benefit from them. 
  • Because AR and VR is all about creating an experience, you should focus on sharing event content that is relevant to the theme as a whole while also creating something entirely unique for the viewer. 
  • Virtual reality and AR event planning is all about creativity
  • VR and AR events and event elements are as practical as they are entertaining.
  • Look to leading brands and events for more inspiration.
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    This article speaks about how AR and VR is integrated nowadays in events. It goes onto explaining how it is used, new ways it can be used, and great examples of leading brands using it.
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Southwest Airlines Partners With Sabre, Now Offering Flights on GDS | TravelPulse - 0 views

  • Southwest Airlines has partnered with Sabre to provide business travelers and business travel planners with the ability to book Southwest Airlines on one of the leading corporate booking channels in the country, through the use of Sabre’s global distribution system (GDS).
  • we're able to provide the ability for more organizations than ever before to quickly book and modify travel with just a few clicks.
  • those who are used to traveling for business want to do so again, with many desiring more direct input into the travel-planning process, including choosing their own accommodations and airlines. Southwest’s partnership will make the airline more accessible for business travelers.
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    First of all this article shows how Southwest Airlines is partnering with one of the Global Distribution Systems. It goes to mention how the pandemic has not completely eliminated business traveling. In fact, Southwest airlines wants to make it easier for business travelers to plan their trips.
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Disadvantages of Cloud Computing - Cloud Academy Blog - 0 views

  • Cloud computing has benefited many enterprises by reducing costs and enabling a focus on one’s core business competence
  • here can be disadvantages to cloud computing, especially in smaller operations.
  • key disadvantages and share tips and best practices that your teams can employ to address them.
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  • Since cloud computing systems are internet-based, service outages are always an unfortunate possibility and can occur for any reason.
  • Best practices for minimizing planned downtime in a cloud environment
  • storing data and important files on external service providers always opens up risks.
  • Their dependence on remote cloud-based infrastructure meant taking on the risks of outsourcing everything.
  • Best practices for minimizing security and privacy risks
  • Even the best teams suffer severe attacks and security breaches from time to time.
  • Best practices to help you reduce cloud attacks
  • Since the cloud infrastructure is entirely owned, managed, and monitored by the service provider, it transfers minimal control over to the customer.
  • Best practices for maintaining control and flexibility
  • asy switching between cloud services is a service that hasn’t yet completely evolved, and organizations may find it difficult to migrate their services from one vendor to another.
  • Best practices to decrease dependency
  • Pay-as-you-go cloud services can provide more flexibility and lower hardware costs, but the overall price tag could end up being higher than you expected.
  • Best practices to reduce costs
  • the suitability of cloud computing for your specific use case should be assessed in a risk-based evaluation.
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    This article speaks on some disadvantages of Cloud computing all while providing ways to tackle these threats. For example, other than the main and common disadvantages it also touches on is the switching between cloud services. This can be seen due to the lack of growth within the cloud system. Eventually the gaps between servers can cause risk of security and loss of information.
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Innovation in event management - a vision of the future - 0 views

  • With video conferencing tools like Zoom and Google Meet quickly becoming part of our daily working lives, speakers have still been able to reach an audience, and conferences have still been able to take place.  
  • One thing is clear for the events industry: it will not entail jumping right back into pre-Covid norms.
  • “Hybrid events are expected to be the norm in the new Covid-19 environment, with a blend of virtual and physical elements, while retaining the ‘live’ aspect that fulfils the need to connect and network,” says Carrie Kwik, Singapore Tourism Board’s (STB) executive director, Europe.”
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  • Therefore, it is critical for our industry to pivot and adapt to new event formats and business models.” 
  • Singapore is well positioned to pioneer these new models.
  • According to Singapore’s Economic Development Board, the city state plays host to 59% of the Asian regional headquarters of multinational tech companies.
  • ttendees could be given an RFID token that blinks red when a person breaches safe social distancing guidelines, while movement tracking could take place via beacon or Bluetooth technology. 
  • For this reason, STB is developing a suite of initiatives to help tourism businesses in Singapore build the capabilities they need to succeed in the digital age.  
  • As digital/virtual becomes a key feature of many events in future, a successful venue may be one that can adapt its physical spaces and technological bandwidth to embrace this feature.” 
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    This article covers how Singapore is one of the leading countries in innovation when it comes to event management. It goes into discussing the new normal and how the Singapore Tourism Board's reacted to it. In addition, there is statement explaining how Singapore's largest venue is now being used as a hybrid broadcast studio. They have taken this time during the pandemic to pilot innovative schemes and use it to not only adapt to the current crisis but also think ahead to the future of events. With that said, COVID-19 has pushed for for a flow of disruptive innovators in the event management industry. This is shown in the hybrid version of events.
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