Technology in the hotel travel and tourism industry will be changing drastically in the near future, from the swipe of a cell phone, print of a finger, facial recognition, iris scanners, security is going to be taken to the next level. the plastic key cards will soon no longer exist. Radio frequency I'd cards are the new thing, where guest will use this for preferences for everything, from charging things to your room, preference of floor type to pillow choice, chick in and out etc. systems that track the other qualities of a person instead of using a key or card are in development as well. There are research going on how to open the door and. Lose wi just the persons walk and movements. Some people think these new security technologies are awesome, while some think they are not, people dont want to be watched 24/7while on vacation they just want to enjoy there stay. But in today's society all travelers are becoming interdependent on each other for safety and security.

People are starting to use travel agents again, research shows that travel agents showed a 51% revenue increase with an expect of 94% to make a profit. When people travel to exotic destinations is when they tend to use travel agents, and this is the future where more people are traveling all over the world. The internet is a useful took for gathering travel infromation, the counsel and expertise of a travel agent is invaluable. But when people use the interent for the information and get to there destinations and something goes wrong, they have nobody to go to if they need help. Travel agents are evoloving again!

The top hotels aren't necessarily the most expensive or most luxury' they are the ones that's have the most in touch with their surroundings where locals and visitors hang out together. Mobile computing and emarketing is the future. the ffuture guest is going to expecct soemthing from the consumer electronicsside of things. eveerything that you use or nneed at the hhotel is going to be elecctronic, the concerige,room key, front desk, there i going to be no need for you to have physical key tocarry arround with you or desk to go up and talk to someone if you have an issue. There will also be no need to check inand oout,sensor lighting, smarter buildings that will be solar power. The hotel of the future is smarter, conectedand allows guests to formtheiir own communitty while their there so its better than a good bed, bath and breakfast, there is a 4th B nows, bandwiwidth, which lets you connect with your social, home and work worlds.

In the travel marketplace it is global where buyers and sellers work together to exchange travel services. Global distribution systems and the internet distribution systems have become electronic supermarkets linking buyers to sellers and allowing reservations to be made quick and easy. Travel today is sold most on the internet, it is a vast networks of suppliers and a wide customer pool in a centralized maket. Currently today there are 4 major GDS and they are continuing to grow. This article pretty much summed up what we learned in the past 2 classes

Since the hospitality industry is so competitive, you need to have a good website deisgn in order to keep up with the competition. A great website design can be a powerful tool for esstablishing a brand. Having a good website gives you the opportunity to present services and atmosphere that is being offered to the target group. But dont get fooled not all 5 star hotels have an up to par website, and vice versus. Many good website designs have flash so they can add videos and pictures and have a lot going on rather than a plain straight to the point website. /i have learned from ecperience by searching the web for a hotel. Thre are different target groups to impress luxury, business, leisure, casual but each website should fulfilll the needs forall the categories of a traveler no matter what they are staying at the hotel for.

The new iPad POS systems are starting to turn up all over the place in many restaurants and hotels. The iPad FIRMS POS system also can be used with the iPod touch, offers a 90% savings on traditional POS systems and can be optimized to fit restaurants of any level. We all know that POS systems could cost over $20,000 so by getting the iPad system you can put the money you are saving to improve the restaurant or use the money else where.

It's sometime hard to tell which information you find on the Internet to be reliable or not. With all these social media websites,blogs, newsstands Wikipedia etc,people can pretty much post whatever they want for the public to see! To figure out what info in validated or not we need to check the author and they will state where the information is coming from and how much information is stated in the article, also by the content, how professional the website looks and if it is being maintained on the regular. People that post on websites like Wikipedia may not alway be 100% validated, anyone that goes on the website is allowed to make changes an add whatever information they want. If the website shows the authors name, googoling his name will show information about him or her to be able to tell if they post falsified information or not. There is lots of different ways to tell which information we research or not is true , we just have to research on the research we find!!

Netiquette is network etiquette on the internet through emails, websites, etc. Some core rules would be to always use spell check, never use all caps, tell the truth, be yourself, do not flame or spam, be conservative, do not send email at night, shop on secure sites and use discretion. The common conventions of online communication between users are the rules of netiquette. Netiqutte takes into account the context of how information is shared. Internet etiquette is centered around data and its use. The type of data are; text, audio, graphic and video. Netiquette is social code for network communicatin. The internet is the most popular digital network in the world, therefore it is centered around internet use because its the culture of digital networks and the internet if the most popular in the world.

why is it so hard for the foeign visiors to com to the united sates?the economy make it that way! the Americas International travel sector is in fact healthy, so it shouldnt be so difficlt to bring peolple to our country. Nominal revenues reached an all time peak last year of a $153 billion. Th tourism indstry has never been the same since 9/11, but there is plnty we can do to boost the industry. Foreigners come here to spend money, leavving us americans with extra funds, in excange we can use that money to fix things, purchase oil etc. Tourism benfits directly from the structue of the economy. Tourism is one of the main was in which t uited statesbeneifts from global growth. We need to do what we ca and bring he people over nd help our economy.

This article is about social media and tourism are so alike biggest the are the top industry's in the world. User generated content is used by 40% of online travel researchers to determine whether they visit a destination. The tourism industry is using social media for there marketing strategies more than other traditional advertising. People are constantly on the Internet, Facebook, twitter and any other social media website, so I think that would be one of the best ways to advertise. There are over 300 million global users on Facebook alone, so what better way is there to advertise anything through that social network. Through twitter the tourism industry can tweet deals and hash tag different things where people will click on it and bring you to the twitter page directly. Social media can increase a tourism business, revenue and brand name.

Twitter is one of the leading social network websites for communication, millions of people view this website daily to find information about all different things over the world, and to communicate with people you know and also don't know. It is not only used by people who rely on it for expressing different things, it is also the darling of the developer community. Each day people are updating this websites and links from this website to make it a fun and effective experience. There also different apps from twitter where people can access pictures, information, news, etc R a faster pace.

Social network is just going to expand in the future, where people from all over the world can learn and get to know each other on different levels. Each social network created is created for different reasons, some for work, some for pleasure, and some from both combined, some for marketing, etc the list can go on forever. This article lists out the 5 different eras of the social web and explains each ear in detail. The eras arent sequential, but instead they are over lapping.