This article is a great addition to what we learned in the module this week regarding physical plants. The article stresses the importance of saving energy to reduce the carbon footprint, but to also provide exceptional hospitality services. He mentioned its the little things that count such as turning the lights off in a room or as well as checking thermostats in vacant rooms and just keeping an eye out overall. To ensure that all employees are abiding by this, its crucial that proper training is to take place

The company Cyber Gear has launched a new website that contains a wide variety of hotel for visitors of Dubai. Cyber Gear also provides many services, specializing in eMarketing amongst other services such as eCommerce, eCRM, Social Media and much more.

This article is about Ruby Hill hotel, located in the city of Pleasanton, presenting the proposal for an events center within the hotel. From what the article states, it would have been a good idea but the council chambers declined it. They stated "We believe it is too big for the size of the site and we believe it is not compatible to surrounding uses..."

This company is an interactive info tech company and has decided to make a large investment in their online electronics retailers. The chinese company has also announced they will expand to dozens of countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

This article is about the small company that just installed Aptech's new web-based enterprise accounting. It is evident this article received some attention by the amount of students who highlighted notable parts of the article. This new system is deployed in the cloud and it is easier to train and faster to navigate. This is very convenient for accountants in the hospitality industry because it can potentially have a dramatic change on the department's efficiency. The system also provides a complete suite of financial management and analysis for the hotel industry. Lastly, it is also trustworthy because the Aptech group has more than 45 years of hotel accounting knowledge.

This article is well worth the read. It informs us as to why our credit cards keep getting hacked although our favorite retail stores seems to have secure POS systems. There is actually lots of time and money that needs to be invested in order to have a secure POS. Many of these hacks keep happening because companies wait until it's too late to upgrade to chip reader POS or a higher performance security

Maestro, a known on-premise and cloud PMS system has been selected by 15 lodging properties with more than 1400 rooms. Throughout the article, hoteliers who currently use Maestro, or have in the past, gave brief reviews regarding the efficiency and overall impact of the PMS.

In their attempt to cease the use of "middlemen", British Airways and Iberia will attempt something so bold that not many other airlines have done. The airline plans to add surcharges to the tickets consumers purchase through GDS's in hopes that they will book directly through them. Although many predict that they will fail, they originally got the idea from the airline Lufthansa, which implemented this approach back in the summer of 2015 and have not seen a loss in revenue since. Sabre did try to sue the airline for this however the case remains in limbo.

Although this article circulates around hospitality, it just goes to show how broad networking has become in this day and age. Individuals from all over the work are using networks to connect with one another and form communities. Throughout the article, the author refers to Andrea Wittel's notion of network sociality and relates it network hospitality. The article goes on to state that Wittel's use of the term 'network' refers both to new structures of electronic connectivity and to practices of making social and professional ties.