This article is about the InterContinental Hotel needs for a Human Resources management system that allows them to optimize the human resources department operations. A system that allows managing reports and analysis of employees information, payrolls, resume, calculations, and other. The hotel chain InterContinental looked for software vendors that provide their needs and Sky Bayan was the software they tried and ended up working with successful results.

This articles talks about the physical plant situation that Marriott had years ago. After Marriott faced challenges in 2005 with its management company that was in need of separating its IT infrastructure from its parent company, they now use Oracle E0Business Suite 22i's HR and Payroll applications. Marriott in North America had a long history of using Oracles application, Marriott U.K and Hewitt stayed with Oracles .

This is a recent article from Kelly, co-founder of Click mail Marketing, in which she suggests three tips to get started as an eMarketer. She suggests that should add a click to chat link to your email, use cookies to spur email offering and sales, and to create customer loyalty newsletter.

This article is about technology trends in the event industry. It talks about what event planners are doing to implement more technology in their events; it gives examples such as audience using smartphones to interact during the meeting, events, conference, etc. Now event planners use technology to collect information in real time, which helps them to adjust their event at the moment, this is a very smart strategy.

The articles talks about a hospitality security specialist that launches a new security technology for guests credit card information protection. Their goal is to have all the hotel industry applied this technology for better optimization of the service and to completely cover the risk to 100%. This technology will allow hotels to charge their customers, and the credit card information will not remain save in the system of the hotel. This will decrease risk for users and make payments much more secure.

This article talks about five ways to invest in travel and tourism. It specifically mentions the Online Travel Providers. In many industries, including traveling industry, internet continues to generate revenue to the business. Priceline in particular has been increasing profit growth in the last five years offering lower price and online bookings, last minute travel deals and bids.

This article talks about Hotel H2O and Amadeus, they have come together in order to operate the Amadeus Property Management System. This system was developed to manage the inventory of room and audit of a hotel, as well as customer relations, invoicing and billing. The General Manager of the Hotel H2O mentions "We have conducted an extensive survey of the various hotel property management systems available in the market and have come to the conclusion that the Amadeus Property Management System (PMS) best meets Hotel H2O's requirements. With the growing sophistication and demands of hotel guests, the Amadeus PMS will enable us to properly cater to our guests' needs and provide them with the unique experience that only Hotel H2O can offer". Amadeus is the system that global travel and tourism industry chose to partner transactions processor. The company delivers distribution and technology solutions to assist its customers in the fast changing industry.

Hotels going green is being appreaciated by the guests

This article is a research study from Godwin- Charles Ogbeide about customer's perception when staying at a going green hotel. He mentions that there are three categories that guests are more likely to look for green hotel and those are: water, energy and waste reduction. He found on the study that guests are more energy and water saving, and he mentions that customers are working more on turning lights off when is not in use. He also makes reference to hotels that currently have "smoking" and "non-smoking" rooms; in the future they could have "green" and "non-green" rooms. The new trend of going green not only save money to the hotel , but also helps increasing their profit margin.

Zig Bee technology in hotels is happening right now in some hotels that has been installed. This articles talks about the new techonology that let the user have control of almost everything. In the case of hotels, it will let staff to monitor guestrooms, public areas, and any place through their devices as long as they have internet conection. This techonology can go through walls, furniture, cabinets, and human body. An interesting feature of this is that it will eliminate the future use of batteries.

This article talks about new technological initiatives in the hospitality industry. Connect is the new software that will be launched in January 2013 for Androids, and is currently available for downloads on iOS platforms. The purpose of this software is to improve hotels connections to their guests. This software was created by Monscierge with the idea that hotels can keep connection with their guests through smartphones or tablet where guests can get access to all the information about the brand, hotel in a way that suits the requirements of today's tech-savvy user. Through Connect, guests can now communicate their need via chat or voice directly and quickly getting in contact with any department of service that the hotel offer such as housekeeping, restaurant, valet, spa and any other. At the moment, this software is only available at participating hotels. However, guests still have access to the recommendations and travel information in any other hotel. This efficiently allows reliable information at a real-time delivery. "Guests can add their own messages and send them to friends and family through email, Facebook, and Twitter - facilitating the guest's connection to friends and family while providing added exposure for the brand and location." (Robinson. C, 2012)