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Know the advantages of using Event Management Software - eRegNow.com - 0 views

  • Know the advantages of using Event Management Software An event management tool is a wonderful way of m
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  • top priority for any modern day event planner.
  • help you to manage your tool in an expert manner
  • Positively Impacts the Work Flow:
  • boring paper works as you need not require that any more once you have the event planning software.
  • Reduced cost:
  • apphelps inmanaging your data/ task
  • not require to keep too many employees
  • increasing the ROI of the company. 
  • Export Report with Ease:
  • create/ extract reports and hence you can make use of this to send client reports, analytics, registration, ticketing, scheduling as well as surveys.
  • helps to ease the stress of planning an event. With the increasing popularity of social networks, events are becoming popular.
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    This article talks about the advantages of using an event management software and how the tool help managing the event successfully. This software is priority to the modern day event planner with an expert manner. Positively Impact the work flow cutting down on the boring paper work. Software will help time by cutting down all the time you would spend in organizational work reduced workload. Event software will reduce cost by inmanaging you data and task allowing you to have less employees and increasing ROI for the company. Have a good software will allow you to export reports with ease like client reports, analytics, registration, ticketing, scheduling as well as surveys. This will help ease the stress of the company and allow managers to focus on increasing revenues and getting new business.
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IT class | Diigo - 0 views

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    E-Marketing in the hospitality industry I found this article very informative and helpful. E-marketing could also be called Internet marketing, web marketing, online marketing and even digital marketing. In the hospitality industry, these marketing strategies are growing at a dramatic pace. Because this is making such a significantly impact behaviors by driving more revenues. The article explains the five main sections of e-marketing. 1) Search Engines Marketing * This is the largest majority of internet surfing allowing the hotel to drive targeted traffic to the company's website. 2) Sponsored Search * This type of marketing, is sponsored search corresponds to search ads through a bidding process on keywords. 3) Social Media Marketing * This allow companies to use websites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube allowing to take advantage of spreading any information or updates posted repeatedly whenever they want. It also targets a wide audience. In other words, it's the new word of mouth. 4) Mobil Advertising * This is one of the fastest growing e-marketing advertising. With almost everyone nowadays carrying a smart phone, this type of advertising could be critical to bring in new business for the hotel. 5) Email Advertising. * This is the most powerful e-marketing tool for hoteliers to use. It gives you direct revenue opportunities for past, present and future guests. Nowadays, online marketing is the most powerful advertising methods. All companies in the Tourism and Hospitality industry are competing to lead the online marketing techniques to order to shift the market to increase their online traffic and generate more revenues.
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How To Stay Ahead Of The Hospitality Industry | By Cristian Grossmann - Hospitality Net - 0 views

  • At the HR in Hospitality Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, industry leaders discussed where the industry is going and the power of foresight
  • It's not enough to just be great at what you do anymore—you need to stay ahead of trends and find ways to innovate before guests realize what the future could look like
  • few ways to ensure your hospitality company is proactive and stays ahead of the curve.
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  • Embrace Innovation
  • company that thinks outside the box is Marriott International,
  • Marriott has an "innovation lab"
  • headquarters that constantly manufactures new ideas
  • implementing communal rooms.
  • share a kitchen,
  • dining room, and lounge area
  • Make Technology Your Friend
  • how technology has the power to take companies to the next level.
  • people don't normally like change or have trouble adapting to new systems.
  • Personalize Employee Communication
  • personalizing employee communication.
  • The staff is the backbone of any hotel and needs to constantly be informed.
  • act that you can't ignore internal communications anymore. Today's guests expect to communicate anywhere, anytime with ease—and your employees expect the same.
  • Hotels that have implemented internal communication platforms where team members not only receive information faster, but also stay connected to every employee, have seen their teams fulfill requests quicker
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    This article discusses how to stay ahead in the hospitality industry. During a hospitality conference in Las Vegas, leaders in the industry discussed where the industry is going and the power of foresight. Being great at your job is not good enough anymore. Hotels needs to stay ahead of trends and find ways to innovated before guests do. Here are a few ways hotels and hospitality companies could be proactive to stay ahead of the curve. 1) Embrace Innovation: Using Marriott International as an example, they are always thinking outside the box. At their headquarters, they have an innovation lab that constantly manufactures new ideas. Some of their designs features are looking to implement communal rooms. Where guest will share a kitchen, dining room, and lounge areas. 2) Make Technology Your Friend: Whey a company embraces technology, it has the power to take a company to the next level. The issue is that most people don't normally like change and have trouble adapting to new ways. To be ahead of the curve, it is important for hotels to use technology to their advantage. 3) Personalize Employee Communication: Communication is the key to success in any company and in hospitality, it is very important to personalize employee communication. The staff is the backbone to all hotels and communications between management and staff need to stay constant. In today's society, the guests expect to communicate anywhere, anytime and employees are now expecting the same.
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15 Benefits of Having Digital Menu Boards in Your Restaurant - 0 views

  • While the core focus of a restaurant might be to serve delicious food, what missed out is the paper menus and restaurant chalkboard on which restaurant invest lot of time and mon.
  • 1. Digital Menu Display Makes Communication Easier
  • It gives you better control over what you want to highlight on your menu which indirectly influences the choices of order of a customer.
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  • use videos or animations that catches more attention and also makes the communication much easier
  • 2. Save Time by Easy to update Digital Display
  • pdate can be made in a matter of seconds and whenever you want to.
  • 3. Sound Investment Saving Money
  • convenience with an added benefit of cost savings. Since you don’t have to print new menus or promotional material regularly
  • 4. Digital Display Create a More Memorable Experience
  • The right mix of graphics and videos can keep customers entertained
  • enhance the overall customer experience.
  • 5. Better Visibility of Menu
  • grab user’s attention with videos and animations
  • ye pleasing than the regular paper
  • 6. 24/7 Support
  • Many restaurants have started opting for 24/7 menus which create an impression on passersby too
  • 7. Boost Sale up to 21-23%
  • said to have boost up sales by 21-23%
  • You can change menu items, prices, and promote specials without having to invest anything more to have your menus changed
  • 8. Promote and Upsell Your New Items
  • sell and promote your newly introduced items on the menu.
  • 13. Reduce Wait Time
  • Moreover a restaurant can use several other things like display fun facts or display promotional material to distract the waiting customers and get them less frustrated.
  • 14. Meet Health Care Regulations
  • display calorie counts next to each menu item.
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    Week 4 Article Summary 15 Benefits of Having Digital Menu Boards in Your Restaurant. This article discusses the positive ways in having a digital menus and explains the benefit it has on the restaurant. The focus of the restaurant should be more on the quality of food being served. Even though there are a lot of restaurant that give you an experience like no other but if the food is not top quality it will be hard to bring customers back. Having this type of digital menus could enhance the guest experience while helping the restaurant increase revenues. Here are ten of the top fifteen positives reasons of having a digital menu boards. 1) Digital menu displays will make communication easier. This starts form the customer directly to the kitchen. It will also allow the establishment to display videos and animations that will catch the eyes of the customers and could highlight specific menu items. 2) Saves time by easy updates on display. The software will allow the restaurant to update the menu very easy. You could add and take away dishes without having to print all new menus. It will also allow you 86 items that are sold out at any time during the shift. 3) Sound Investment of saving money. With the system allowing you to change menus, it will save money because you won't have to pay to print new menus every time you want revise it. 4) Digital displays create a more memorable experience. With having a digital screen, it will allow the customer to stay entertained by having a right mix of graphic videos and allowing them to keep them occupied during down times. 5) Better Visibility of menu. The display on the tablet will allow the guest to see a nice HD screen with colors that will make it easy to see and read. 6) 24/7 support. No matter what time of day, there will be support for mangers to trouble shoot any issues that might be happing at time. 7) Boost sales up to 21-23%. It has been said that having an emenu will increase revenues by allowing the establ
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Importance of GDS For Travel Agency And Tour Operator - 1 views

  • The Global Distribution System is a tool for travel agents that enables transactions between travel industry service providers and travel agencies.
  • The GDS mainly uses real-time inventory to service provides.
  • why is it important to the travel industry?
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  • he channel manager you choose should integrate with your booking system and should also give you the opportunity to customize and update your options
  • alendars will adjust your availability based on the on the resources that you have in your inventory.
  • black-out dates in your online booking system
  • GDS is not connected to an efficient channel manager, you will never be able to update your availability across all of the channels that you use to sell your tours and activities.
  • Independent travel agents, online agents, and travel agencies use this system to search for the best available travel and accommodations rates for their clients
  • GDS systems also support high traffic to the travel sites
  • Global Distribution System may become a more of a direct corporate booking tool rather than the system used exclusively by travel management companies.
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    This article talks about the Global Distribution System (GDS) and how important this is for the travel agents. This systems enables transactions between the travel services that are provided and allows travel agents to see and sell those services. For example, the GDS will allow travel agents to see available hotel rooms & airline ticket rates in live feeds. But the big questions is why is the GDS important to the travel industry? When managed property with a channel manager, the booking system will give the property an opportunity to customize and adjust availability based on inventory and allow to block out dates. Travel agents and online booking systems use the GDS to search for availability and best available rates in real time. If not managed correctly, this could cause issues and over bookings. The GDS systems also support high traffic to the travel sites. The future of the GDS system might in obsolete in the near future and may be a corporate booking took rather than the system used exclusively by travel management companies.
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Five ways hotels can use technology for a better guest experience - Insights - 2 views

  • 70s when there was no internet and travelers would make hotel bookings through travel agents or phone calls.
  • made via phone prior to their arrival was tentative and not confirmed
  • , they were forced to look elsewhere
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  • hotel was full
  • amaged the hotel’s reputation all over the Internet through negative reviews and posts.
  • rise in Millennial travelers who are highly dependent on their smartphone.
  • preparing their own itinerary and replacing the traditional travel agents.
  • hey are able to use technology and provide value-added services, comfort and convenience to their guests which was not the case in the past.
  • five viable technology solutions that can help hotels serve their guests better and personalize the experience:
  • today’s era:
  • Tablets are growing in popularity among the new-age generation
  • convenient option to book
  • pre-arrival through mobile apps
  • ne in four hotel bookings comes from a mobile device and Millennials alone add up to 38% of these bookings.
  • Front desk
  • tablets at the front desk to check-in/out the guests and take their quick feedback.
  • digital signage
  • ne of the best ways to connect with a potential guest.
  • Rooms:
  • After Wi-Fi, guests are expecting hotels to provide tablets in the rooms. Seeing this rising demand, many hotels have started investing in tablets and are installing third party apps to give their guests the control of room lights, AC, TV and more.
  • Restaurants/bars/spas
  • point of sale
  • New-age travelers
  • Self check-in technology can play a role in providing convenience to the guest
  • check-in via tablets or phones using a QR code
  • Checking-out the guest can also be done via smartphones or tablets
  • digital marketing strategies.
  • n increasing sales while providing a convenient platform for interaction.
  • Engaging potential guests through this feature will make them feel valued and can convert lookers into bookers.
  • decisions are purely based on convenience
  • room doors using a mobile.
  • code on their mobile app through which they get control to their room door.
  • concierge or security.
  • Millennials are a dominating segment that often looks for hotels that offer quick services and technology allows hotels to deliver what they expect. So, strike the iron while it’s hot!
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    Going back to the 70's when internet connections did not rule our minds and travelers would make hotel booking directly with the hotel or use travel agents. When there were no email confirmations, TripAdvisor reviews and when we had to use maps to find the locations. This article talk about five ways hotels are starting to use more technology to connect with the guest. 1) Mobile bookings. 2) Quick check-in with tablets. 3) Self check out. 4) Live chats to help turn lookers into bookers. 5) Door opening with Technology. I choose this article because all these new technology need to work on storage and software and there is no better way than to use cloud computing to run these programs safely.
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Physical Structure of Management Information System - 4 views

  • combination of people, hardware, communication networks and data sources that collects, transforms and distributes information in an organization.
  • Hardware
  • Important components include the central processing unit, input/output devices, storage units and communication devices.
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  • Software
  • Software can be divided into two generic types: system software and applications.
  • Applications are developed to accomplish a specific task.
  • Database
  • A database is a centrally controlled collection of organized data
  • Procedures
  • Three types of procedures
  • user instructions, instructions for input preparation and operating instructions for MIS
  • Personnel
  • The personnel in the MIS function include computer operators, programmers, systems analysts and managers.
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    When learning about the role of a MIS manager, I feel it's very important to learn the Physical Structure of the MIS. This article explains that the MIS is combined of hardware, software, database, procedures and personnel. When using MIS, it will help with decision making with accurate information then send to managers. These systems are vital to the day to day operation of a hotel.
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