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Airport Security Solution: Should the TSA Profile Travelers to Prevent Terrorist Attack... - 1 views

shared by Mingxue Jia on 23 Mar 13 - No Cached
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    This artical piont out the best way for airport security is profiling travelers. Considering privacy concerns, in my opinion, not all consumers will accept this non-technical. Maybe for frequent fliers, they like this non-technical approach. Because that this approach provides conveniences to them and helps them save time. Frequent fliers do not need to line in a long queue, and then take off clothes, and shoes, as well as opening their luggage for check. However, as for normal fliers, considering privacy concerns, they may mind providing background information to airlines, since they don't know if it is safe.
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Stop, look and listen before investing in hotel tech - 1 views

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    No matter in what kind of biz, before we make a decision to adopt new technology, it's better to do a SWOT analysis at first. In the hospitality industry, everything related to the relationship with people. What kind of service will accept by customers and what's the best method to provide are the basic questions need to be answered before take a new investment approach. In this artical, it piont out to be wait and see before tacking a new investment. There are some benifits to do this. 1, save money. 2, get the experience from others. 3, lower risk. No matter what kind of method you take, the basic rule is making decision from customer perspective.
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Accounting for Hotels | Small Business - Chron.com - 2 views

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    The accounting could be manual or computerized accounting methods, procedures, and controls. It could be used to collect, record and analyze operational data. The hotel managers also could interpret the information in the accounting system to make management decision. It's a good method to gain more benefits with an accountings' help. With an good quality accounting system, the manager of restaurant could make a decision on the percherse amount and find out the peak season. Also, it will be easy for a manager to make decision on how many employees should be hired. The information in the accounting system is not only make a record. It refelect the performance of restaurant. As this artical metioned, the things need to be considered when choosing an accounting including staff traing, accounting software and forecasting.
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Cash Registers vs Point of Sale (POS) Systems - Which is Better? - 1 views

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    With the development of technology, there are many softwares and machines help business imporved. The POS is a good system, which chould be used in the hospitality and retail industries. It has the ability to save money, quickly process a customer's transaction and accurately keep records. However, it charged more than installing a cash register. When considering about whcih one need to adopt, it's better for the business do a self analysis first. No matter what kind of technology we use, we need focus on provide personalized and customer focused service.
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property management system - 0 views

  • One of the most important features of a Property Management System is its ability to keep track of inventory
  • Having a Property Management System allows modern businesses to operate smoothly with a minimum of waste in man hours or inventory
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    This paper describes the PMS definitions, characteristics and applications in many industries. For example, the real estate, the hospitality industry, government offices, manufacturing and many other agencies and industries. As for the hotel industry, it provides timely and effective information to the front desk clerck what are required of the guests in hotel room. Also, it helps hotel staff handling reservations, checking guests in and out, assigning rooms and managing room inventory, and handling accounting and billing. Based on my internship experience in Raddison Hotel of Tianjin, China, the PMS increase efficiency and maximize profits. This hotel use the Opera PMS, which connected with the Internet, the information provided are in time and accurate. What's more, it's easy for hotel employees to learn and use in daily work.
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Infor Gives Hospitality Companies Edge In Measure Social Sentiment :: Hotel News Resource - 0 views

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    This article describes the infor company(a leading provider of business application software) and trust you(a market leader in online reputation management) built online reputation management software for hospitality industry. Hoteliers could access to the social senciment on a real time. From the customer's perspective, there are many factors related to choose a hotel form more than hundreds choices. Not only the hotel's facilities and services, but also the reputation on the internet will influnce customer's slection. Nowadays, with the rapid development of social networks, the senciment plays a great role in people's life. For example, in China, there is a web-site, named as "Quna". On that web-site, people share the travel information, rate the restaurants and hotes. The new travelers could get some ideas about the hotel choosing. Therefore, the hotel manager must pay attention to the public reputation management in time. Now, the hoteliers could access to the social senciment in real-time via a series of dashboard, embedded widgets. What's more, by this tool, the hotel employees could correction error, redeem hotel's reputation, improve customer satisfaction, and improve hotel's occupancy rate.
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