Worldwide travelers tired of inflexible and impersonal corporate procedures will see hospitality back in the hotel business, when Global Hotel Exchange premieres a set of industry defining 'customer-first' features this March.

Hotels face new challenges as they continue to recover from the recession, including tech-savvy, Web-surfing travelers who have different expectations as guests than do prior generations. USA TODAY assembled five of the industry's top executives last month at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit in Los Angeles in the LA Live JW Marriott hotel for a discussion of the industry's latest developmen...

VIZERGY, a hospitality digital marketing leader, has partnered with BrightEdge, a best-in-class SEO technology provider, to offer advanced search engine optimization (SEO) services for the hospitality industry. BrightEdge collects and analyzes competitor data allowing VIZERGY to develop a strategic on-site SEO offense and proprietary, hotel-specific link building, further enhancing the company's ...

A key focus for hoteliers around the world in 2012 will be the integration of their online distributions with their Property Management Systems (PMS) and Revenue Management Systems (RMS) to make their online reach faster, simpler and more powerful, according to online distributor, SiteMinder.

Hoteliers wishing to expand their social media circles but don't have the time or man power to do so can now rely on a social media marketing agency exclusively servicing hospitality to do it for them; Today Lodging Interactive will set-up and manage a hotel's Google+ Business Page while CoMMingle monitors comments and provides responses

Appnostic LLC, worldwide travel technology and social media marketing provider, today announced the launch of StoryBoard™, an advanced Facebook fan page design for hotels. The new design enables hotels to operate micro versions of their official websites' navigation on just one tab of their Facebook fan page.

Standing at the leading edge of 2012, most of us are so worn out from the relentless battering of global uncertainty, we've forgotten what we are working for. To have a happy home, with kids dreaming big dreams, planting a garden, having that fishing boat, maybe even taking art lessons someday, these are the things many hotel owners dream of. But, by the time we all pay a third of our falling hot...

The Cornell University School of Hotel Administration (SHA) is launching a new hospitality marketing course in collaboration with Sabre Hospitality Solutions, a leading global hospitality technology and marketing company. SHA faculty and Sabre executives have co-developed the content for HADM 6471: Hospitality Marketing with Evolving Media: Social, Mobile, and Search, which will be offered for th...

904 Magazine recently included VIZERGY, a nationally recognized leader in hospitality digital marketing, as part of their "Companies with Heart" special feature in the February issue of the magazine. The recognition was based on several criteria, including the company's corporate philosophy on giving back, as well as activities, programs, and company policies that highlight VIZERGY's commitment t...

Hotel Concepts – Brilliant, a leading global provider of technology and software solutions for the hospitality industry, announces the direct integration of the Flip.to social marketing platform into the RezExchange channel management and distribution system.