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Overall, the hospitality industry has seen tremendous growth over the year. However, utilizing these new software systems and their easy updating features can benefit these hotel properties in a major effective way. These features allows staff members to monitor, easily adjust and plan lower costs, and monitor social media marketing for future hoteliers.

When I was looking through the news, I knew that hotel software would have positive influences based on costs. They are enhanced with developed tools. I like the view that hotel software would take more trends within account retrieving and customers opinions. I think no matter what happened hotel software should be valid for hotel owners to hire. It is innovative. Furthermore, I would make assumptions about estimated future processing. It should be risk free to keep an example while hazardous events happened. It probably costs more like hurricane is running thorough for a hotel. Whether should they run a PMS and RMS are good reasons to concerning about more clients. Whether the chopsticks could be electronic one to apply for a utensil is a wondering. The conclusion I think is a must that I like the article about hotel software.

This article discusses a solution to the toxic chemicals that are used in technological products and its effect on the environment due to lack of recycling and toxicity hazards. The current solution to the hazardous chemicals leaking into the environment and its human rights issues has been a management solution only. Products are made with these chemicals without, possibly for decades, knowing the true harm that coming into contact with them can cause to humans and the environment, so scientists simply try to decipher this and contain the problem. This has led to huge amounts of money trying to clean the damage already done by this tech trash. We are now learning (especially with the rejection of trash from poorer nations), that there needs to be a better solution to this problem. The article points out a plan with a few strategies, but which center more around prevention, than cleaning up after a mess. This is where "green chemistry," comes in. Technological products of all kinds can be redesigned with prevention of toxicity in mind. This has to do with not only using less toxic chemicals, but using chemicals that break down in certain ways, testing new methods to see how they break down before using them, designing safer chemicals, using renewable raw material, design for better energy efficiency, and more. The article states that it is important for the electronics industry to take responsibility and to design with green chemistry. Green chemistry is a very new science, brought about by the realization of the overwhelming issue of toxic tech trash. A smattering of universities are now developing these green chemistry programs, or in the least, requiring chemistry students to take courses on toxicity which were not requirements previously.

The hospitality industry can contribute to this movement by recycling hardware, reducing hardware usage, and purchasing technology that becomes developed that is considered to be "green." This way, the industry can produce less waste that is driving this huge international problem.

This is a different kind of "SmartBar" then the "SmartBartender" discussed this week. SmartBar LT is a software based solutions for bar owners to allow them to make better decisions managing their bar. It allows bar managers to track real time store performance as well as the latest trends regionally, nationally or globally. Mangers can use this data to make intelligent orders directly within the platform. One particularly useful feature in COVID-19 era is that allows for "Contactless Menus" to be generated that are up to date, sanitary for customers and staff, and reduce printing costs.

In 2017 the Washington Post introduced green travel in their article "What is 'green travel', anyway? A beginners guide to eco-friendly vacation planning." The article explains the in/outs of traveling by defining green travel as a lifestyle change and listing the steps of accomplishing an eco-friendly vacation. Sweden ranked at the top for eco-friendly travel. My only issue with the article relates to the destinations in which air travel is required. Air travel may not be the most eco-friendly way of traveling because of the fuel pollution in the "friendly skies". However, some airlines make it a point to remain evironmentally-friendly such as Alaska and Delta airlines.

Global distribution systems have grown immensely in the last couple of years. This article mentions the biggest and first companies to have created and used GDS. These were and are important companies with in the hospitality industry, they started using these systems to track themselves and created a monster that is now the best way for consumers to book and edit their reservations.

Great tech and green practices for the hospitality industry. Innovation in hotel design, guests satisfaction, and technology are paving the way for the future of the hotel industry. The article draws on the new and current trends that easily work with the current climate as well as future tech that will be available in the future.

Absolutely. I feel like I shared something kind of basic but along the same lines. I really want to be on this bandwagon. Giving guests peace of mind in this way is so important now and we have to be above just the basics in this way.

Data mining software examines existing information and analyzes it in order to find patterns and correlations. In the hotel industry, data mining can gather information such as hotel feedback, reservations, and the length of guest visits in order to identify relationships and discover new ways of increasing revenue and decreasing costs. the application of data mining would allow the hospitality industry to improve its internal organization and overall performance by improving productivity, enhancing guest services, increasing revenue, reducing costs, developing competitive edge. In large part, hospitality industries develop relationships with their guests because they offer them the proverbial home away from home, entertainment, and rest. Data mining would analyze those relationships and track spending habits to reveal steady and loyal guests. Today's guests are technologically savvy consumers, so in order to predict what their customers need, the hotel industry should embrace technical advances too. Data mining is the ultimate source of identifying information that was already there. When the hotel industry applies that knowledge to today's business model, they can offer consumers what they want and keep them coming back.

It is no surprise that in a time of a pandemic like Covid-19 the hospitality industry and restaurants are having a difficult time due to social distancing and e-commerce would be doing great. Media and marketing service firm Engine did a survey of 1000 people online and 31% of the people indicated the they were going to increase shopping online then just 7 days later that number went to 42% which was a 35% increase. 80% of people indicated that they would be cutting back on going to restaurants and 62% would not travel for business.E commerce will definitely be here to stay.

Horizon properties had been looking to get a remote accounting system for 3 years and deployed Aptech's PVNG Enterprise Accounting system this February prior to planning for a pandemic but have become very useful for business continuity during COVID 19 by allowing operations to be managed remotely.

The article discusses how accounting systems specially designed for restaurants can better perform activities like monitor inventory, pay vendors, record transactions, do forecasting, and generate statements by integrating all this data in real time for management to use in their decision making. Using generic software that does not fully integrate all the information available can result in a less efficient operation, where employees spend more time performing their tasks, irregularities are missed, and important information is not analyzed. For example, when compiling information for decision making, most systems focus on a monthly or yearly basis for their data breakdown, while accounting software for restaurants should be able to do it on a weekly basis to adapt to thigh margins and nature of the business.

The author talks about the importance of having a specific to restaurants accounting system. They also point out the importance of having a system that can send alerts in cases of suspicious activity or expenses not lining up with the inventory. They also say that it is important to have the ability to review reports on a day-to-day or weekly basis.

This article is a perfect example of this week`s topic. It`s a good illustration of a "wait and see" approach. The article gives you a lot of numbers to support its point.

This a article about the events industry. The CEO of eventbrite.com was in this article, she gives insights on what she sees is happening with events. Right now, the biggest focus is smaller, more intimate events.

According to the article Best Hotel Accounting Software in 2020, if you own a small or medium-sized hotel group, check out Cloudbeds. Cloudbeds is an all-in-one property management, booking, and channel management system that boasts ease of use as one of its primary features: a must-have in order to keep your operations running smoothly. Unlike some competitors in its price range, Cloudbeds allows you to manage multiple properties all from one dashboard. It also serves as a point-of-sale, inventory management, and reservations management program

This article references the specifics of the M3 platform, which is a more efficient accounting software for hoteliers. After several test runs, M3 has proven to help several properties streamline their accounting process, track data in real time and cut costs where possible.

M3 is a useful hotel accounting software that can be used on mobile devices, according to the illustrations. As mentioned in this article, accounting software can do things that generic providers can't, like delivering actionable business intelligence. For M3, it also gains the property managers more benchmarking insight and turned a management company's IT department into a profit center that offers service. Furthermore, by replacing the IT department with two employees and a cloud-based accounting system, it saved a large sum for a management company.

Didi gets $500M financing for the development of autonomous vehicles. This is the largest ever fundraising round in China in autonomous vehicle technic. And the testing of autonomous vehicle in China is one its way. Didi already get the permit to test in serval cities in China and California.

This article discusses how Google Flights has become a threat to global distribution systems, such as Sabre. Google Flights allows airlines to market directly to travelers and keep more of the fare. Sabre, on the other hand, has been charging airlines fees for their services. This contrast has changed how airlines utilize global distribution systems, and Google Flights could ultimately replace GDS's like Sabre.

News | E-Commerce Times

The internet has drastically altered consumer relationships. Traditional "brick-and-mortar" enterprises realized that to survive, they too had to satisfy customer expectations to procure goods and services over the Internet. The Internet has raised the bar on customer expectations. Companies who understand this will succeed, and in turn, provide a Web experience that meets the unique preferences of each of their customers.

The demand for e-commerce has increased over the years, and has played a vital role in the travel and tourism industry. The article lists five ways e-commerce has helped the industry grow by making operations and online booking more feasible.

The company Bartech is offering hotels and casinos in Las Vegas solutions regarding the coronavirus pandemic for guests.

The bartech e-bar is convenient as hotels can seamlessly control these functions, and now it makes more sense than ever due to reduced capacity at hotels bars, that implementing a bartech mini bar will enhance customer satisfaction. There is a downloadable application to control the functions of the e-bar. Since guests are spending more time in the room and less in the hotel bar, the e-bar is a convenient way for hotels to increase their profits during this difficult time. It can also monitor when and what the guest is taking, and store this data for reference. In another way, it can monitor its touching by guests usage which eliminates the need for hotel staff to enter the room and check the bar--which reduces the touching and entering of people into rooms.

Besides ensuring guests of new safety protocols, the electronic mini bar reduces touch and saves costs to hotels because hotels can remotely change settings on the bar, for example, by locking, unlocking, remotely shutting off or reducing temperatures during non-occupancy. The article then suggests that a "well-run mini-bar" is a profit center to any hotel and to implement an e-bar makes sense for guest satisfaction and also to save costs, especially during this time.