Hospitality Technology

The lodging industry has been implementing contact-free check-in way before the pandemic started. Hotel companies saw that as a solution for the long lines at the front desk and the time wasted signing required documents before receiving your key. Contactless check-in has been proven to be more effective and favorable by many travelers. Guests can now check-in through their phones and even have a digital key to unlock their room. Check-in applications will allow you to learn about the guests' interests in your amenities/ outside attractions which can help companies better the experience for the next time that guests books with them. As these contactless check-in apps are implemented into more hotels, it is best to inform the guests of the process atleast a day before their arrival. Since some might not be familiar with the idea, the companies should guide them on how to check-in through their phone and how to access their key. The more that guests will adapt to doing this, the more that they (and your employees) will be happy.

Bartending stats; on average one person can make 4-6 drinks per minute and 15 seconds to pour one pint of beer.

Fastest bartender in the Guinness Book of World Records. Sheldon Wiley made 1,043 drinks in one hour using at least 4 ingredients and without repeating any drinks.

Cloud kitchen utilizing technology to create a whole new market

Cloud based technology applications in restaurants. Online ordering, mobile pay, digital menus, and inventory.

Cloud based POS to combine scheduling, payroll, and more

SD-WAN secondary connection when primary internet fails. 4G to LTE for wireless connections.

Robotic fry cook, digital ordering kiosks, ghost kitchen, cloud based apps, restaurant delivery

Network upgrade for POS, financial systems, employee management systems and payment transactions. SD-WAN

This article includes advice from a former intelligence officer when it comes to travel and hotel safety. Today we rarely see guests take these precautions even though it could be the difference between life and death in an emergency. When traveling it is crucial to be aware and knowledgable or your surrounds in the case an incident or emergency does occur.

This article explains how and why hotels went from being in the bottom 13% to the top 3 most targeted industry for cyber attacks. It talks about how the implementation of technology to handle customer date has made the industry vulnerable and also how corporations are battling the issue by using separate third party companies to store data and handle credit card information.

This article outlines some of the main cyber attacks on the Hospitality industry. It exposes the threats due to the wealth of data stored in PMS, POS and CRM and suggests steps to take to protect against malware and randsomeware. The article further highlights the necessity for antivirus software on all devices.

The article describes the five most common cybersecurity risks for hotel brands such as ransomware, remote hacking and DDoS attacks. The operational elements of each risk have also been discussed. It also covers best practices that hotels and other hospitality organizations can adopt to curb breaches.

In this article, it is described why hotels are not as open to new innovative technology. Although they are now competing with companies like Airbnb, hotels still have a hard time adapting to new technology as they may need to change their infrastructure, or it cost too much to obtain. Overall, this article makes it clear that in order for hotels to compete in this new competitive market, they will need to continuously keep up with new forms of technology to stand a chance.

AI continues to evolve in fast food locations. McDonalds is piloting voice recognition systems in their drive thrus hoping to hit their 95% accuracy benchmark before deciding whether to roll this out to 14,000 McDonalds locations. The technology is improving ordering processing on average by 20 seconds per order and could reduce human labor hours by 9 hours per day.

Amadeus has a new full-suite of programs aimed at helping hospitality companies use data for projections and customer retention. Aimbridge, which is a large management company, has adopted this full suite. This product and adoption highlights how hospitality companies realize the importance of fully-integrated but also useful data capture and translation for increasing revenue and repeat customer business.

This article reviews advantages and disadvantages of tech advances: tech can replace human workers but this often leads to customer dissatisfaction. Tech is constantly advancing so companies need to stay competitive. The "ripple effect" means tech advances affect other fields where disruption is often rarely anticipated (his example is driver-less cars leading to less business for drive through restaurants).

This article summarizes a panel conversation about cloud functionality and how it can help in the hospitality industry. They point out that hospitality outlets can use cloud tech for operations, efficiency, guest experience, kitchen monitoring, waste reduction, sustainability, data analytics, predictive maintenance. They highlight that while 91% of hospitality leaders say that cloud is essential, only 29% would say that their company is on track, and that companies need to bring along employees for the advancements.