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The article seeks to explore the advances in PMSs by reviewing past features and performance and looking towards the future advancements. The industry is facing a gradual but eventual change in integration. The article reflects on how legacy vendors have been slow to evolve due to infrastructure and using integrations to develop revenue. This puts traditional systems in a precarious situation that will leave them behind if they don't evolve. The new systems focus on using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), cloud based systems, stacked levels of integration, marketplaces and middleware to work seamlessly with CRMs and CRSs.

This article provided the various kinds of emenu that can be found. It also gives info on the types needed and the benefits. It also then goes to mention the influence it can have on your business in terms of numbers and how the devices can be used alongside your staff and servicing.

This article discusses the important issue of data security especially when it comes to a hotel's PMS. It goes into two areas of particular vulnerability: the booking engine used by hotels and the actual PMS. By hosting a 3rd party booking engine off site, it is still the responsibility of the hotel to secure and keep guests' date secure. They need to ensure that their partners are adhering to proper compliance and rolling updates for security. The second area of focus is the PMS itself and how it is hosted: whether locally or through a cloud based system. Regardless of the location of the host, data security is the responsibility of the hotel.

This article first introduced us to the definition of smart hotel rooms, and then explained the importance of smart room technology. From a customer perspective, smart hotel rooms can provide guests with a higher level of personalized service and enhance the customer experience. From an environmental point of view, smart hotel rooms are conducive to sustainable development. The consumption of lighting or heating in the room can be adjusted according to actual needs, which means that energy waste can be reduced. From the perspective of hotel management, smart hotel technology enables the front desk to remotely manage the room, improves management efficiency, and monitors the operation of equipment in the room through the Internet to achieve faster repairs.

This article is great for anyone who would like to understand more about technology involved in the hospitality industry. Recommend this to anyone who is writing about technology.

This article discusses some innovative and unique technologies that exist to combat top sustainability issues such as energy consumption, water conservation, and waste maangement.

This article spoke about the history of GDS as well as different opinions on what the future holds for GDS. The main points of the article included a comparison in percentages of travel agents using GDS now and in the past. It seems that GDS has a chance of surviving the downfalls of direct booking if they are able to evolve with technology and consumer needs.

modern technology/applications has taken over where most people can make their own flight reservations without an agent. But even with this change GDS is still going strong and that is mainly because most people feel safer when they go to an agent to make their reservations.

the article discuss the large amounts airlines pay for GDS companies in incentives and they are trying to find different ways to reduce sales through other platforms and try to reach consumers directly. such methods like offering a good online reservation website offering better prices to consumers or raising the prices sold to GDSs.

AI has tremendously helped the hotel industry especially in the realm of revenue management. Instead of having to compile mountains of data and make calculations by hand, we have AI software that can not only analyze all the compiled data, make predictions based of trends, and set rates but it also learns from this data to become smarter with time.

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The 2020 created SaaS platform Jurny has raised another 9.5 million dollars to help expand globally and reach more small-medium sized properties looking for enterprise level solutions. The technology comes at a much less significant cost than many competitors already existent in the space and continues to prove why smaller sized properties should consider the software. Many operators are seeing an average 20% increase in revenue and 2x NOI within the first 30 days of implementation.

Events and Event planning are evolving into new, dynamic formats. Old models are falling away and technology is giving both planners and Event participants an opportunity to grow and revisit the underlying ideas about how Event spaces work. "It's been fascinating watching just how fast things have changed," said Brian Solis, principal at Altimeter Group, at a New York conference this year.

This article talks about the ways that technology is changing event planning and events themselves. event attendees are now looking for more engaged experiences, rather than the old way of merely attending an event passively. Social media plays a huge role in how attendees interact with and even plan an event. Participants can interact with and engage with event speakers now more than ever, with participants sending questions to the speaker via social media or other technology that allows for the speaker to answer audience questions in real time. Data personalization allows for event attendees to receive information about the event, allowing them to be involved in the planning process and during the event itself, whether it's through Bluetooth or geofencing technology. event attendees can take advantage of augmented reality technology to engage in activities. Wearable technology is becoming increasingly popular, as it allows attendees to get information quickly and easily without any real input on the attendee's part. Mobile apps are now becoming more commonplace for events, as it's easy, efficient, and convenient. Drone technology is now being used at events, whether to take pictures or to stream the event to people who could not attend.

As the world has moved forward with technology, so to has the world of events and event planning. Planners are able to connect with the guests on a whole different level and events have the technology to be able to keep the attendees engaged and interacted. From flying drones to social media, technology has helped selling events a much easier process.

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11 was when the TSA was created. Ever since this point in history security in airport sis a lot stricter and requires certain documentation to travel. Lines are longer, leaving travelers to arrive for their flights earlier. Overall, 9/11 heavily impacted the security world we live in today.

The hospitality industry struggled to survive during covid, and they are still fighting by incorporating technology to improve traveler's confidence during this pandemic and still managing to make a profit for the company. They are using technologies to keep both guests and employees safe during this time. Technology features that used to be a bonus are now becoming a necessity in the hotel industry. As the hotel industry adopts to these changes, this is likely to be the new norm instead of eventually reverting to the old normal. This goes past digital check-in and check-out. New technologies are being used like e-newspapers or magazines for guests to use instead of picking one up in the lobby. This includes contactless payments, scannable QR codes for the restaurant menus and chatbots or live-chats with the on-property staff. These new technological advancements can allow a guest to completely skip the front desk and most human interactions all together if they chose to.

Connected commerce is helping the quick service restaurants. It is meeting more and more of the customers wants.

With technology advancing, hotels are putting their best effort to keep up with new ways of telecommunication. As mentioned in the article, the fax machine used to be the most popular way of telecommunication back in the day. Now hotels have been trying to figure out the best ways to gain guest to use their telecom infrastructure since the fax machine has become outdated. The problem is guest don't want spend a lot of money making a phone call so the hotels have had to create packages for guests to use the phone. They would include unlimited calls and high-speed internet for a certain amount a day which could attract some guest but not all. Guest don't find the need to use their phones because mostly everyone has a phone, tablet, or pocket computer. Hotels can catch the guest attention by the internet because none of these devices are no good without internet connection. Making packages with unlimited calls and high speed internet is a start to reeling in guest. It all comes down to what can the hotel offer in means of telecommunication that a guest's device cant. One concept they have is the land-line has much better connection and speed. Having that speed and connection is very important to a guest. It is going to take time and trial and error but there are always alternate ways to reel guest in to use their ways of telecommunication.

This article discusses technology and how it can be upgraded for guest use. It also mentions how to appeal to guest because they may come with their own devices. It gives suggestions on service packages and bundles that can be given to aid their telecommunication.