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At this moment the majority of hotels and resorts are using disconnected technology to manage check-in/checkout, billing and on site food and beverage charges. Toast POS provides an integrated platform which allows guests to pay bills more efficiently all with one payment. "Toast for Hotel Restaurants will deliver a more efficient way to let guests pay bills by charging them to their room, making the payment process faster and more efficient for both hotel and restaurant staff across full service restaurants, in-room dining, grab & go, bar & cocktail, event venues and poolside dining."

The article discusses the pros and cons of the GDS. It also addresses the role it plays for helping smaller businesses in standing out to a large group of potential customers. Furthermore, the GDS has gone through many changes since the 1970's, but it is still thriving and overcoming new obstacles today.

This article mainly describes the current main trends of artificial intelligence in revenue management, guest experience, and daily operations. AI's concierge service, chat robot translator, ultra-dynamic pricing, forecasting utility, team booking software review data collection, intelligent function charts, and intelligent recruitment are the main manifestations of future technological development. Through these artificial intelligence, the hotel can simplify some service procedures, provide more personalized and improve the guest's staying experience. But at the same time, we must also realize that intelligent technology cannot completely replace employees.

"AI is already changing the guest experience across the travel lifecycle, including the on-property experience."

It is very important for hotels to provide excellent security. It makes the customers feel safe and enhance their confidence and safety.Security officers patrolling the hotel's grounds can look out for suspicious activity.Security officers can prevent hotels from incurring property damage, particularly if officers are patrolling the hotel's grounds. They can also assist in incidents involving guests damaging their rooms.

This article is appropriate for those who want to gain historical knowledge of the evolution of Global Distribution Systems (GDS) over the last few decades. The whole history of airlines' creation of the system and how they adapted to insert the computerized reservation system in the 70s. The article offers, through didactic illustrations, the evolution of the system and future perspectives that have been implemented today. Furthermore, offering a brief description of the analog era, the implementation of electronic booking, and how travel agents adapted to new technologies. Overall, it is an excellent source of information that serves as a basis for a better understanding the system's evolution today.

With the advancement of technology in the hospitality sector, much has been adopted to fit the new environment. And as technology aid, the interactive sense of technology across hospitality, some of the major trends that have begun to manifest are shaping the industry and the sector. Technology modified the advancement of utilities and different facilities to transition from electronic to digital in the 21st century. And thus, evoking the need for keyless entry. Hotels with integrated technology can allow guests to access their rooms through smartphones, kiosks, and sometimes plastic cards as keys. The initialization of voice command services such as Amazon's Alexa has been brought to offer a comforting experience as guests can interact and request reservations through Alexa. Robots have been used to adjust the scenes and operations of smart hotels. Thus, every facility within the environment becomes accessible in a digital way. This is also supported by advanced security and digital amenities, which offer numerous growth opportunities.

Event technology is forever changing and adapting to current environments. With COVID-19, event technology will be more prevalent than ever. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality can make the attendee feel like they are in the middle of the event while actually being far away. Facial recognition software allows for streamlining check-in, but also allows for entry to be contactless. As most events have become virtual, livestreaming is very important to bring the event into the living room of those that cannot physically attend. Event apps are becoming more and more popular in that they bring all of the event information right onto an attendee's smartphone and allows them to customize their experience. Attendees can participate from far and wide, so having the information be translated into their language increases their accessibility and inclusion. Artificial intelligence collects user data and turns it into personalized recommendations for their event experience. Games brought into an event increases audience engagement and allows for team building and friendly competition. Event planners have project management software available to them to help streamline their planning and saves them time and money by not having to manually do certain tasks.

Event planning is the process of managing a project such as meeting, convention, trade-show, ceremony, etc,.This includes budgeting, establish timelines, food and beverage, developing theme, etc, which is time consuming. Thus, it is important to invest in a technology that support your day to day operations.Investing in a technology as great benefits such as it will save time when using an event management software it automatically records and tabulates data. It also keeps a track of your guests and help to eliminate human errors. A customer relationship management (CRM)platform can be use to keep notes on the guests attending the event. Overall it makes your job more fun. The article focus on the technology trend in event planning such as measuring engagement, facial recognition, viral reality and crowd screening,

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