and engage your event participants

Personalized activity feeds let organizers measure engagement on a whole new level!

This mobile event app develops conferencing and tradeshow apps for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android devices.

A networking platform that integrates social media to build interactive event communities for event organizers and attendees alike

Guidebook is a web interface that enables organizations to create mobile guides for their customers.

They specialize in the refined art of giving planners the ability to develop apps specifically for their own events

In order to receive free Wi-Fi, guests must download a mobile app. Once downloaded and in use, the mobile app offers guests not only free Wi-Fi but also information on the hotel’s services, restaurants and other targeted hotel features. The hotel can then use the app to send special perks to guests for the hotel’s facilities—including restaurants, golf clubs, spas and salons. These perks can help draw in guests and increase a hotel’s revenue stream, at a low cost and high return on investment.

Using those perks helps create customer loyalty while also helping to increase the hotel’s revenue.

Some hotels are using beacons to send a virtual room key to users’ smartphones, allowing them to unlock their door just by tapping a button. Beacons are additionally being used to accelerate the check-in process for frequent guests and let housekeeping know when guests are still in a room.

Some platforms work seamlessly with mobile screen messaging triggered by BLE beacon connectors communicating with iOS and Android devices running Bluetooth.

With a new generation of tech-savvy guests coming through the doors, adopting beacon technology and tastefully designed digital signage will continue to help set hotel chains apart from their less forward-thinking competitors.

Aside from the traditional check-in experience, technology has made it easier for guests to check in, inquire about their rooms or upgrades as well as obtain RFID keys.

With free companion apps in the market, it is now possible to control your room remotely through your phone or tablet to turn on the TV, browse and order for food, and so on.

Apps available for both Android and iOS can now allow guests to access a range of services including booking appointments for spas, set wake up calls, ordering a taxi, etc.

Workflow management tools are a great example of such incremental innovation.

Workflow management tools have become important because they help to reduce instances of dropped guests.

From phone activated keys to being able to use your tablet to control the temperature, the future of the hospitality industry looks brighter than ever.

Wearable tech such as keycards, both for employees and guests, can collect data such as the most frequented locations by your guest so that service can be tailored.

Such sites allow guests to filter hotels by location, price, and proximity to the airport

This innovation has now been commoditised and most of the hotel now provides Wi-Fi for free. It’s not even a few years when hotels used to charge a hefty price for Wi-Fi usage.

The peer to peer networks has changed the hospitality industry as it has placed more pressure on hotels and guesthouses.

This is great, but it does come at a cost $$$. Internet service providers charge a premium to business customers. We are talking thousands per month. Not the fast cheap connection you get at home.

Lose the internet or the host based cloud and you now have many locations dead in the water instead of just one.

Where are these internet cloud PMS/POS providers securing your data? How are they securing your data? Any organization can hobble together a data center and host their applications from it. But how much time have they spent on securing it from the outside world

But the party may not be over yet for GDS. According to a 2014 Business Travel Survey by Business Travel News, GDS still processes growing volumes of travel transactions.

If GDS evolves to meet the changing needs of the airline industry, it will survive; else it will cease to be relevant.

Cloud computing provides increased storage, so you won’t have to worry about running out of space on your hard drive.

There are numerous cloud computing applications available for free, such as Dropbox, and increasing storage size and memory is affordable. If you need to pay for a cloud computing service, it is paid for incrementally on a monthly or yearly basis.

That said, some servers like Google Cloud Connect come with customizable spam filtering, email encryption, and SSL enforcement for secure HTTPS access, among other security measures.

Individuals will find Apple’s iCloud particularly useful if you are using Apple devices. Small businesses, in turn, can opt to share documents via Google Cloud Connect, Google Docs, or Dropbox.

Chatbots are able to understand simple questions and provide answers almost instantaneously, taking the burden away from customer service staff and improving the experience for customers. Meanwhile, AI’s uses extend into other important areas for hotels too, including data analysis.

More and more, hotel websites are using 360 degrees imaging technology to allow virtual reality users to experience rooms in their hotel before they book.

Within the hotel industry, big data allows businesses to identify trends, which can be used for revenue management purposes.

The ‘Internet of Things’, or IoT, involves extending internet connectivity to everyday objects, devices and appliances. These devices can then collect data and communicate or interact over the internet, turning previously unintelligent devices into ‘smart’ devices, which are often semi or fully autonomous.

Unlike VR, which places users in a digital environment, augmented reality is about enhancing the real-world environment through information overlays.