Highlights:BUENOS AIRES - HVS, a leading consulting firm in the hotel, tourism, and leisure industry and real estate-related business, through its offices in Buenos Aires, announces the opening of registration for the 4th Edition of SAHIC 2010 - South American Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference, to be held at the W Santiago Hotel, on September 21-22, 2011, and presents some of its 60 renowned speakers who, through general and break-out sessions, will discuss the most influential topics in decision-making in the regio My Comments: IT related hospitality event planning and management is more and more popular and useful in industry. Most top 10 hospitality management company in the world has used it for event statistic and management such as Hilton and Marriot.It is a trends to use it the most efficient and fashion method to improve the service effectiveness and efficiencies in service industry. And the whole industry has hold SUMIT to discuss the it event management.

One very effective way to help protect your employees' personal information is through the use of a Human Resources Information System (HRIS). An HRIS that is tailored to meet your specific H.R. document and record keeping needs provides you with the level of protection that ensures your employees you have done all you can to safeguard their personal information U.S privacy law is codified in federal and state statutes and has its foundation in the both common law and the U.S.HRIS use the program designed to enter with password set by employees themselves and controlled by hr persons, at the same time gather information legally

As most famous hotel brand expand their business map globally ,they need more powerful technologies, especially the security and emergency technologies. If the technology can make the whole brand as a whole system, any franchise hotel has something usual ,the headquarter will get the information. There is a trend hotel chains want to develop their security system online similar to bank security online system

Highlights: International Business Machines Corp.'s IBM +1.11% chief executive, Samuel Palmisano, advised the Obama transition team last month that $30 billion in government investments in expanding broadband access, computerizing health-care records and improving the electrical grid could create more than 900,000 U.S. jobs. My Descriptions: This article show the data about how many jobs will created by it investment. I think it investment can create jobs in technique update and maintenance. At the same time , it improve the company's operation effectives which will bring more profits and demand , and create more job opportunities even in other department besides it

Highlight: IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) is inviting preferred business accounts across Asia Pacific to move to a dynamic pricing model, guaranteeing corporate travellers to always pay less than best unrestricted rates at its InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo®, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express in the region. My Description: InterContinental Hotels Group is making efforts to turn its original accounting and pricing system into a more dynamic and flexible one, which can make more market-sensitive hotel rates according to the demand situation. Currently , IHG is trying to increase the scale of market-sensitive rates to the traditional contract rates. Therefore Corporate travel managers should feel confident they have access to the best possible rates in hotels of IHG. This model guarantees they will pay less than any other unrestricted rates. One advantage of this market-sensitive accounting and pricing system to annualized rates is to respond to unexpected market condition. This dynamic pricing system will not only help corporate managers to reduce related costs but also bring more convenience to corporate travelers as the increase of booking channels. The application of IHG's dynamic pricing system bring many positive feedbacks, especially as these corporate customers usually end up paying less than their RFP-contracted counterparts

Highlights: 4 FAQs for Savvy buyers While mostly associated with retail ventures, cash registers have uses within many businesses. Restaurants, hotels, and other service providers have a need for a cash register, and when integrated with a POS system, have found unparalleled benefits. But if you're unsure of the equipment you need, or your security system is lacking, your POS system can be doing you more harm than good. My Descriptions: This article is a quick guide to POS, and it mentioned four questions about POS cash registers: what equipment does a POS register need, are touch screen monitors worth the cost, does integrated equipment save time and how can I keep my POS cash drawer safe. It mentioned that cash registers have been used in most restaurants, hotels, retail shops and other service providers. POS system can bring benefits to them, while POS system can do harm than good if your security system is laking. The author showed equipments which are needed for a POS register. Besides the basic equipments such as computer, monitor and printer, it also needs either a keyboard or a touch screen monitor. Most retail stores will also have a security tag desensitizer near the scanner .As more customers use debit and credit cards, a credit card reader and pin pad are essential for every point of sale location. In addition, the touch screen will help to increase efficiency and eliminate the need for employees to remember codes for the keyboard and reduce problems with keyboard and mouse cords, and it leads to a quicker check out. In this article, the author proves nowadays Handheld scanners are more popular for businesses where items are big and bulky. To keep the POS cash drawer safe, one can program a feature to let cash register to be only opened after a transaction, or it can be a complex procedure where money is only counted under the supervision of a manager or team of employees. Or managers can install a camera to monitor the process of employees to use t

Highlights: REPORT FROM THE U.S.-As revenue management becomes increasingly sophisticated and complex, many major hotel companies are rolling out new platforms and tools to help managers at the property level. Description: There are two main applications of property management system in major hospitality management companies. The first approach is to provide service for hotels without a revenue manager. The second prong is to give revenue managers a set of tools to control their own pricing structure at the property level. Besides combining hotels in a same region together, one advantage of property management system is to save related costs. In general, revenue management needs deep skill and expertise, so the price for hiring employees with these abilities is expensive. In addition, this revenue management system helps managers enter the system easily. With the immediately information about the marketing's pace, managers can open or close rates conveniently. And property level managers can sell strategies to various best available rates. Property management system provides brand supports to hotels. Hilton is making efforts to develop this revenue management system, at the same time, they hire more and more persons with skills to use it. This system provides franchises a new tool to learn customer experience or marketing situation of other areas.

Highlights: Several of the recycling initiatives are housed in the delivery area, where you can see the following not-so-glamorous but significant processes: -The collection of aluminum, plastic and glass for recycling. -Baling cardboard so it can be hauled and sold. -The collection of office paper to be sold for newspaper manufacturing. -The containment of waste cooking oil to be sold to make biodiesel fuel. My Descriptions: The author had a back-of-the-house tour of this hotel in the 140 acres of Palm Beach island, and she regard it eco-tourism. She found this hotel separate different trash in different box, and then sell this recycling materials to local supplies. One special thing in this hotel is that Native drought-tolerant vegetation has replaced more exotic flora. This hotel also has an organic and vegetable garden providing its restaurant with fresh organic produce.The reverse-osmosis plant and 1,100-foot-deep well treats unusable salt water to be used for irrigation of The Ocean Golf Course. It is really a concrete example of a hotel present its green initiatives. This idea can be widely used in hotel landscaping and purchasing.

Highlights of the article: REPORT FROM THE U.S.-After the initial jubilation over an online distribution channel with commissions around 10% wore off, hoteliers are now beginning to ask tough questions about how Roomkey.com will be marketed to compete with existing third-party sites. My descriptions: President and CEO at Hospitality eBusiness Strategies stress the importance of Room Key. He mentioned how large Room Key can cover and spread to the market. He and other members of the management team found the strategy of eBusiness is cost-saving.Emarketing can help their company cut half of the marketing budget. Hilton and Marriott international hospitality management company have already joined Room Key.And because franchisers have increase franchisers fees about advertisement, more and more hotel join Room Key.

Highlights of the article: REPORT FROM THE U.S.-After the initial jubilation over an online distribution channel with commissions around 10% wore off, hoteliers are now beginning to ask tough questions about how Roomkey.com will be marketed to compete with existing third-party sites. My descriptions: President and CEO at Hospitality eBusiness Strategies stress the importance of Room Key. He mentioned how large Room Key can cover and spread to the market. He and other members of the management team found the strategy of eBusiness is cost-saving.Emarketing can help their company cut half of the marketing budget. Hilton and Marriott international hospitality management company have already joined Room Key.And because franchisers have increase franchisers fees about advertisement, more and more hotel join Room Key.

Highlight of the article: Toronto, Canada & Glattbrugg, Switzerland -- January 21, 2010 -- VFM Leonardo, leader in online visual content distribution for hotels, today announced that Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, an upscale hotel management company represented through over 90 hotels in operation or under construction in 26 countries, is using the Premium edition of VFM Leonardo's VBrochure Online Merchandising System to better merchandise its properties online with photos and rich media on thousands of electronic channels and websites in the VNetwork™. My description: VFM online merchandising system has been used more and more widely in hotel digital asset management and online visual content distribution network.It is a source helping potential customers to find the visual information of a certain hotel and increase booking of this hotel.The article mentioned a successful example of using VFM in Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, an upscale hotel management company.VFM makes it possible that make advertisements for this hotel in 26 countries of four core markets, Europe , Asian, Mid West ,and Africa.Nowadays, VFM Leonardo is a technology leader in online visual content management and distribution for the hotel industry and there are 90,000 hotels worldwide currently in distribution across the VNetwork.

Geographic information systems (GIS) are powerful tools when married to data.It is useful to analysis the trend and patterns of hotel operation with RevPAR and other STR database. To divide segments in the whole hospitality market with different color is one of its special advantages to other hotel software

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Geographic information systems (GIS) are powerful tools when married to data.It is useful to analysis the trend and patterns of hotel operation with RevPAR and other STR database. To divide segments in the whole hospitality market with different color is one of its special advantages to other hotel software