This article talks about the security measures applying to the HRIS system, HRIS system in the hospitality is a series of significant system which include data of all employees. as of All Business said, some safety measures include keeping payroll areas locked to non-payroll personnel and turning off and locking PCs at the end of working hours to prevent unauthorized users, according to Accounting: Smart Pros. Another security precaution is to schedule any PC repairs or installations inside a payroll department when a supervisor is on site to monitor the work. And when HR departments use external vendors, HR leaders must ensure these application providers document their own internal security precautions, Protecting employee privacy and data information is crucial for hotel to care about their employees. In my opinion, hotel management level should pay more attention to the security of human resource information system. Nowadays, with the development of information technology, more and more high-tech crime happened, therefore, the most important thing for hotel IT department is to protect the privacy and security of not only hotel, but also the private information of every employee working in the hotel.

Nowadays, with the development of hospitality industry, more and more hoteliers start to pay attention to going green. Green hotels are becoming a popular topic in recent years. However, how the going green can be realized? it will be through the green infrastructure installed in the hotels. In this article, there are two california hotels installing ilumisys LED Light Tubes, That's is only one example of the going green project. LED light will be a cost-saving thing which will be efficient to the hotel. One of the main benefits to LED lighting is that it is more efficient, which can lead to enormous energy and cost savings. In the future, I believe more and more hotels will going green and use these kinds of green physical plants to make best use of the energy and save cost and resources.

With the development of technology in recent years, e-marketing is becoming more and more popular, hundreds of million people come to use the e-marketing to get the information they need and to book hotels or flights everyday, e-marketing is an efficient and effective tool to help customers to look for products and services. It can not only save time, but get more information than the traditional marketing way in a shorter time as well. E-marketing plans contain a variety of policies for short- and long-term demand of the site, which ensures more repeat visitors thereby ensuring an increase in sales. These special techniques are known as "E-Marketing Arts." E-Marketing is not only helpful to the tourism, but also helpful to the hospitality industry. Nowadays, hotels can also use e-marketing to expand its target customers and to do the business in an efficient way.

Nowadays, with the development of information technology, there are more and more event planners using technology to plan events. Technology will help them a lot during the process of event planning, technology makes the planning process be more and more efficient and faster than ever. In addition, it also help event planner find more information related to their event and give them more ideas to create an excellent event. Moreover, it also help planners to collect data and information in a logical way. All in all, technology not only changed our life, but also change the way the event is planned.

This article talks about the safe box in the hotel guestroom. In the past, hotel usually installed the safe box in the closet or under the night stands. Nowadays, with the development of security technology, more and more hotels install their safe boxes in the wall, thus, it will be safer and safer, however, it is also hard for guests to find it out to use, one of the hotelier said that they should first consider that how they can make guests know where the safe box is and then they can use it. In my opinion, hotel can provide safe box for guests to keep their valuables, but they need to install them in an inconspicuous place where is safe, as well as easy for guests to find. If the safe box is not easy for guests to find, hotel has the responsibility to remind the guest or offer them a reminder card to make them use safe box easily.

This article talks about the benefit of investing hotel technology. As it mentioned, technology is another way of gaining group business and marketing the hotel and meeting center. Here are four of these new popular tools for travelers. They are Virtual conceirge service on guest room TVs; More efficient billing; Virtual business centers; and On-staff IT team. For the Virtual conceirge service on TV, guests can do many things and request services through this system immediately. It can improve not only the departmental efficiency, but customer satisfaction as well. By using the virtual business center, cutomers can enjoy a dining experience. These impressive technology tools improve the guest experience and lead to a quick return on investment, especially in F&B. To increase group business, hoteliers are comfortable with this investment and they know that there's a return on investment with generated buzz/venue marketing and satisfied guests

The Hotel Accounting System helps hotel owners and managers a lot to mange their cost and profit. That's also pretty easy for them to operate. First, Accounting system can help them keep track of the costs, sales, inventory, etc. Keeping tracking is a valuable way of managing hotel's profit. Second, Owners and managers can view reports and numbers all from one system which will give them huge return on investment. Viewing reports from one system is much easier and more convenience than from multiple. Third, hotel managers can also copy credit card or gift card information from one system to another automatically through the accounting system. That's helps them see all sales information easily. Last but not least, accounting system help managers to manage accounts receivable and accounts payable. By checking the A/P and A/R, they can easily see the sales information and invoices. All in all, accounting software for hotel is a valuable tool that improve the efficiency and even profit of the hotel.

Starbucks starts roll out its service. Later on customers will be able to buy coffee with Square's Wallet app. It is a kind of mobile-payment apps for customers. This is a kind of point of sale system for merchant. It can bring a lot of convenience for coffee customers as well as merchant. It is not only time saving, but also cost saving. With this mobile point of sale apps, merchant can save more costs and gain more profits, customers can save more time and receive great convenience. Although some people are not used to making payment by this small apps, gradually most of people can accept it and cannot pay without it any more.

Choice Hotels installed a choiceADVANTAGE Cloud-Based PMS recently, it is a property management system based on the cloud, it is much easier and more convenient to use and manage, and it also reduces some redundant of the traditional PMS, now it will roll out and will be deployed in more and more hotels located in other area of world. As far as I concerned, this is an excellent system which can help hotel to manage different kinds of things in a short time and an easy way, it should be extended to more hotel.

For this Green Choice program which is skipping maid service, in my opinion, it depends, For the pros, I think it is good because it can save time, money, labor, and housekeeping products. Hotels don't need to recruit a lot of housekeepers to clean rooms, thus, they save the salary of housekeepers, training time, and the wasted bath products. For the cons, I think hotel rooms will become more and more dirty day by day, which also decrease the age of a hotel. But anyway, the pros of this green choice program is more than cons of that, I think it is a great going green action actually.

In this article, the author mentions something about the online booking glitches happened sometimes. Although they are not a big deal, it affects consumers in some degree. First, the fare jump happens sometimes when consumers are booking their flights online. While they clicking the searching results, it will come out a price, the fare jumps after they click the price and they are ready to book it. For example, the price shows in the search result list is 582, when consumer clicks the price button and is ready to book it, the 'fare jump' happens at next booking procedure page. It always makes consumers a little angry but have nothing to do with it. I meet the same problems in the past when I booked the flight. Those spokesmen said that these are technical problems, those inventory systems, called global distribution systems, do not always have the freshest price information, which in some cases changes so frequently that between the time the travel agency site queries the distribution system for a requested fare and the consumer actually clicks on that fare, the prices could have changed. In my opinion, that's part of reason, staffs who in charge of the website is another big part of reason. Second, consumers also meet the problem of mix lower-class tickets into the first-class search results. That is the responsibility of e-travel agencies, because they mislabel or fail to label the fare on different occasions. It seems to be another glitches, but it will affect consumers a lot when they are booking. To sum it up, details determine success or failure. Even though these are tiny problems, in a long run, they will disappoint consumers and finally lose them.

In the future, the technology in hotels are developing faster and faster, better and better, it will make guests control more by just touching the button or screen. Nowadays, guests plugged-in the hotels or restaurants by online reservation via the high-tech networks and telecommunications. There are a lot of aspects in the hotels guests using the networks and telecommunications to connect with hotels. For example, before guests come to hotels, they made a reservation online, it needs network; and then, when they get into the hotel, they will check-in by self-service or using the hotel computers, which is convenient to guests. In addition, taking the Aloft Hotels in Hong Kong as an excellent example, guests can use their SPG card to go to their rooms directly without front desk check-in, and then when they go into the room, they can connect their phones and computers whatever they want to the hotel TV. Furthermore, Las Vegas guests can use a touch button to require cleaning services,view room charges, or survey the International Flight Schedule, all of these are related to the high-tech networks, if there is no power or no network, all of these technologies are went out. To sum it up, networks and telecommunications are extraordinary significant to hospitality industry, it represents a kind of luxury and top level of a hotel, it can bring more and more guests for itself.

In this article by Hospitality Business News, the author emphasizes the benefits of the new Mobile Payment Processing and the basic knowledge of the Smart Phone payment. This payment way attracts a lot restaurants owners' eyes, especially in large cities and big restaurants. This Mobile payment revolutionizes the traditional payment method in hotels and restaurants, and it brings much convenience to both merchants and customers. First, it can definitely increase speed of the table turn and save time for consumers and servers. Time is money, especially in the business, customers don't need to give the card to server, and then the server brings the card to the front desk, later bring it back to the customers and customers get that. that's a waste of time compared to this smart phone payment. Second, it is also a fully integrated extension of the current POS system, it makes the POS better and resolve some patches of the current POS. it is a win-win for everyone involved. This Mobile Payment Processing is now being applied in 13 states in 49 cities. In the future, I believe that it will be applied wider than that and it will be more and more popular all over the world, especially for those busy businesses.