Hybrid and virtual events must be immersive and every bit as valuable as in-person events, and allow attendees to network, learn and engage in a way that feels natural.

Intuitive interface

Ease of customization for event planners

Hybrid ready from the start

organizations must take preemptive measures not only to mitigate the financial and reputational impact of these events but ultimately to protect their customers.

Deploying the latest software protection is only the beginning. Transparency to customers and actionable steps to correct such a catastrophic event are critical to an orderly recovery.

An effective plan includes a risk assessment to identify vulnerabilities across a wide spectrum of threats including, but not limited to, cyberattacks.

Here are six important questions to ask your crisis management team:

False orders, credit card fraud, and comping

are some of the most common issues

Employee Theft Prevention

and theft can account for up to 4% of restaurant sales.

liquor lost due to spill or waste – can account for about 25% of alcohol sales.

Inventory management:

Comping policy:

So how can you protect yourself? Enter chip and pin, also known as “smart card” technology

Dine-and-Dash Prevention for Restaurants

the heroics of dealing with dining-and-dashing should actually be left to restaurant policy.

But you can mitigate risk in other ways. Ways to dissuade dine-and-dash theft include:

Video surveillance:

A host at the front door:

The use of a single entrance:

Request a credit card:

Credit Card Fraud Prevention for Restaurants

POS security settings and controls:

Restaurant theft prevention starts with establishing a culture that encourages loyalty among staff and policies that protect financial interests.

It is a fully customizable interactive menu with actual photos of the dishes displayed on a networked LCD screen located on each table or bar to offer customers a full range of ordering and interactive entertainment services.

With this modernized restaurant menu system, a customers waiting time will be minimized and waiter efficiency will increase.

which has proven to increase the revenue by at least 10%.

No guarantee on data security

In this post, we will look at some of the outdated hotel management practices that make up a perfect recipe for disaster.

#1 – Manually handling operations

Manually handling operations is prone to errors, errors that can cost your hotel dearly. Your staff will have to keep doing mundane and unproductive jobs that don’t add any value. Plus, they will get no or little time to attend to your guests’ needs with a personal touch.

This is because most of the third-party solutions today are on the cloud and their integration with a server-based Hotel PMS will never be seamless oreasy. It would be a forced integration leading inconsistent data flow between them.

With such a flawed practice in place, you won’t be able to efficiently maintain records of your hotel business. You will be forced to sift through numerous files and pages to locate a single piece of information. It would not help you understand how your business fared over Christmas season last year, making it impossible to take measures to do better this season. Yes, we are talking about ‘Data’ here. Today, no hotel business can survive without having timely access to guest data and operational data.

#3 – Using an outdated server-based Hotel Property Management System

An on-premise system is expensive, you need to have dedicated servers and IT team to manage it.

software upgrades. Thus, your cost of software ownership will go up.

#2 – Manual methods of record-keeping

PMSs are quite high and you also need to spend extra to get your staff trained on the same.

Not only that, you can’t view your business data and hotel position from outside your office as you can’t access the Hotel PMS once you are out of your property. Plus, these Hotel PMSs are not mobile optimized.

#4 – Using a free cloud-based hotel software

free application might even help you access the Hotel PMS and hotel data from remote locations. But,

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You still have to deal with many operational issues including –

No guarantee on data security

Time to look at a smart cloud-based Hotel Property Management System

Here’s how our all-in-one Hotel Property Management System, Hotelogix, can help you with your hotel business:

"The issue of electronic waste is overlooked, as electronic items that could be fixed easily go to waste instead, contributing to pollution and increasing the demand for components like rare earth elements, which can have a damaging impact on the environment when sourced."

The rare earth elements being mined are currently crucial components in high-tech electronics, but they are hazardous to extract.

"But the truth is that one in five people - at best - are going to be motivated to do that, so for the remaining four out of five, we need to put systems in place that are convenient, that match their lifestyles and enable us to get the electronic equipment back... into the next item."

"There is the high risk that the pollutants are not taken care of properly, or they are taken care of by an informal sector and recycled without properly protecting the workers, while emitting the toxins contained in e-waste," Prof Williams says.

By far the biggest contributors to the level of e-waste are household appliances such as irons, vacuum cleaners, washing machines and fridges.

There are rules on the management of e-waste. Sellers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) within the European Union must provide ways for customers to dispose of their old household device when they sell them a new version of the same product.

"This project allows you to reduce waste, extend the life of objects, and it helps people who cannot afford to get rid of items that have developed a fault," he says.

A lot of travel agents who specialise in corporate travel use a GDS to get their clients booked quickly and efficiently.

Global distribution systems (GDS) have been a mainstay in the travel industry since travel agents began using the systems in the 1970s.

A lot of travel agents who specialise in corporate travel use a GDS to get their clients booked quickly and efficiently.

A lot of travel agents who specialise in corporate travel use a GDS to get their clients booked quickly and efficiently.

Global distribution systems (GDS) have been a mainstay in the travel industry since travel agents began using the systems in the 1970s.

Global distribution systems (GDS) have been a mainstay in the travel industry since travel agents began using the systems in the 1970s.

It is a business-to-business system used by companies to stay on top of real-time data about the availability of travel arrangements, such as hotel rooms, to sell them to customers planning to travel

sing a GDS? Glad you asked! Here are some ways that it makes a hoteliers’ job more effective and efficient.

A lot of travel agents who specialise in corporate travel use a GDS to get their clients booked quickly and efficiently.

Hotels generate more revenue through a GDS because it places the hotel’s information, availability and rates in prominent locations where it is easy for travel agents to find.

Agent increase in use of GDS systems over the past 2 years: USA- 30%, Latin America- 49% , Europe & Middle East-47%, APAC-64%.

Through the GDS, the agents have access to live rates and availability, and they can easily book rooms for their clients.

This little piece of technology saves time and will lead to greater exposure for your property

The incident is the latest in a growing number of data breaches at travel companies, affecting high profile brands such as the 500 million accounts that were hack at Marriott/Starwood over four years and British Airways in 2018.

"The easyJet data breach further demonstrates that even well run companies are unable to protect our personal data.