Today’s economy demands a more proactive, strategic role for the HR department. As competition for critical resources intensifies, managers, employees and candidates are demanding more from HR and human resource information systems (HRIS), moving beyond self-service to secure direct access to relevant information and processes whether in the office or on the road. Epicor® Human Capital Management (HCM) provides these capabilities and more, helping you to manage your globally dispersed workforce, improve human resource processes, and enhance employee satisfaction for greater efficiency and cost savings across the enterprise.

the future of e-commerce in the hospitality industry is guaranteed to be a bright one. And the savvy hotel emarketer has a lot to gain, including room to grow, experiment and “wow” (from SEO to SEM, blogging to social networking, there’s plenty to keep the eager hotel eMarketer busy experimenting).

But what about those in the industry just climbing on-board, especially employees in hotel operations and those struggling to make sense of the opportunities and challenges presented by the Internet? What can hotel eMarketers do to ensure interest and support at hotels? How do you create a culture of understanding and mutual growth?

The answer is simple…create interest, excitement and buy-in at your hotels.

Based on the false premise that security adds nothing to the bottom line, police departments and professional security agencies have seen their budgets curtailed precisely when they are most needed. This police and security cutback is especially challenging to every form of tourism: from hotels to attractions, from restaurants to transportation providers. To help you place this need in perspective, consider the following:

Do not let the media scare you about an increase in crime due to an economic turndown.

Without tourism security even the best marketing will fail

Point of Sale (POS) equipment is the computer-based order-entry technology many restaurants use to capture orders, record data and display or print tickets. Restaurant servers, bartenders and cashiers can all use POS systems to easily enter food and beverage orders.

Hotel accounting software is designed for hotel and property managers/owners to quickly see the numbers of your business. For hotel businesses, it is important to keep track of costs, sales, inventory, etc. By identifying these numbers, hotel businesses are able to keep track of which actions are profitable, and which actions should be stopped because they are costing your business too much money. Once your system is set up, tracking these actions becomes pretty easy.

The value of networking to tourism is now widely recognized, but given the industry's constant day to day, operational & time demands, its virtues as a development and growth strategy can easily be overlooked

Networking has already proved to be an essential tool for 'not for profit' tourism attractions, but even this industry sector could benefit from the extra opportunities opened up by e.g. 'wildcard networking' initiatives (explained below) or more strategic and finely targeted networking programs pursuing clearly defined corporate goals. Investigating the value of 'staff networks' is a further option