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November 20, 2015

Hotel Buddy – A Staffless Hotel for Millennial City Travelers

Looking for hassle-free accommodation in Munich? A great choice is the new Hotel Buddy, where you can manage everything, including booking a room, checking in and out, and paying, from a mobile device.

Munich, Germany

Press Release

November 12, 2015

Entrepreneurship under debate at the Grupo Hotusa's first Venturing Day

Hotusa held its first Venturing Day at the deluxe five-star Eurostars Grand Marina Hotel, a professional meeting which brought together over 200 people linked to the tourism and business sectors, and those from the world of start-ups. This initiative, which is part of the Grupo Hotusa's corporate capital fund, Hotusa Ventures, introduced last March, "guarantees the quest for new ways to get ahead and adapt to changes", according to the Chairman of the Grupo Hotusa, Amancio López Seijas.

Barcelona, Spain

November 5, 2015

Kaba and hetras Implement Mobile Key Guestroom Access at Village Hotels

Kaba announced that it partnered with hetras to implement a fully-integrated Mobile Key Access solution for Village Hotels. The Village Hotel Glasgow, Scotland went live with Kaba-hetras mobile access on October 25. Village Hotels expects to complete its full mobile guest experience rollout to all 28 properties in 2016. Kaba provides the Saflok™ and ILCO™ brands of electronic locks. hetras is the leading German-based developer of fully Internet-based management applications for hotels and chains. Click here for information on Kaba electronic locks.

dormakaba

United Kingdom

October 19, 2015

Epteca to Enter “The Lions Den” at the Innovation Summit Mega Event Worldwide

Attendees at the 2015 Innovation Summit Mega Event will be introduced to Epteca's unique 'smart-selling' marketplace platform, which enables brands worldwide to increase revenue while serving customers needs with the industry's most unique contextual marketing platform. The company CEO and co-founder Bojan Jokic will be presenting their technology during the event's showcase of new products and services to industry executives.

Epteca GmbH

Zug, Switzerland

October 9, 2015

hetras wins hotelforum Product Innovation Award

The Product Innovation Award from hotelforum was presented to the hotel software company hetras, Munich, this year. hetras had developed the hotel management system for Vienna's Hotel Schani as part of the Fraunhofer IAO FutureHotel project.

Germany

External Article

October 8, 2015

Case Study: Hotel Attracts Luxury Travelers with Guest-Facing Mobile Tech | StreetFightMag.com

As the Lanesborough began what would become a 19-month, multi-million dollar refurbishment in 2014, the boutique hotel’s executives started looking for strategic ways to appeal to guests with luxury tastes. To go along with the newly renovated rooms, which reopened in July, the team decided to add a technology component that would be unlike anything travelers had ever experienced.

streetfightmag.com

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Opinion Article

October 6, 2015

IT – The UK hotel industry’s forgotten element?

IT is often described as the forgotten element in the UK hospitality industry. For more than a decade, the UK hotel industry has significantly underinvested in IT, with serious consequences. The emergence and dominance in recent years of Online Travel Agents (OTAs), for example, has impacted bottom line profits through the industry failing to invest in IT to win the battle to drive bookings through their own proprietary websites.

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United Kingdom

Reuters Events (former EyeforTravel)

September 28, 2015

Heathrow, Ryanair, Gatwick take meet to discuss key strategies to better serve the mobile-first, connected traveller

Top executives from airlines, airports, transportation, hotels and intermediaries are set to meet in London 22-23rd October to discuss how to drive forward strategies to deliver a seamlessly connected travel experience to consumers. Central to the discussions will be how mobile strategies can be used to provide the travel information, products and services need to enhance the customer journey. In a recent interview with EyeforTravel, Heathrow Airport stated that they know that 80% of travellers leave home with some sort of smart device. However, providing consumers with the right information they need via mobile at the right time isn't easy.

Press Release

August 13, 2015

HOSPA’s cutting-edge Annual Conference and Exhibition for hospitality finance, revenue management, IT and commercial professionals taking place Thursday, 26 November

HOSPACE is a one-day annual conference and exhibition hosted by HOSPA which is the UK's leading educational organisation for Professionals involved in Financial Management, Revenue Management and IT within the hospitality industry.

HOSPA

August 13, 2015

Travelodge Hotels Pushes Forward On Technology Strategy

Travelodge, the UK's largest independent hotel chain, which operates over 500 hotels has partnered with hospitality technology firm, Monscierge based in Oklahoma City, OK, to develop a series of technology platforms to help the customer journey, from planning right through to checking-out and sharing their hotel experience socially.

Monscierge

United Kingdom

Press Release

August 10, 2015

HFTP Announces New Partnership With HSMAI

AUSTIN, TEXAS (August 10, 2015) — Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®), the global leader in hospitality finance and technology professional associations, is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International – Europe (HSAMI-E) in support of two of their major events, The HSMAI Europe Leadership Day, Thursday 24 September, 2015, in Frankfort and the 4th Annual Digital Marketing Conference alongside the World Travel Mart 5 November, 2015 in London.

HFTP

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July 22, 2015

Amadeus adds property management to hotel IT portfolio with acquisition of Itesso

Amadeus is to expand its technology offering to the hotel industry with the acquisition of Netherlands-based Itesso BV, a provider of cloud-native property management systems (PMS). With its new cloud-native Itesso Enterprise Lodging System (Itesso ELS), the company is leading the industry towards a new generation of property management solutions. Itesso also currently provides PMS technology to 1,800 properties worldwide.

Hotel Concepts

The Netherlands

June 17, 2015

Trust International Helps Hoteliers “Get the Pulse of Distribution”

Hoteliers each year eagerly anticipate Trust International's annual Customer Conference for group sessions with top industry experts; brainstorming sessions with industry partners, executives and product development teams; and nuts and bolts workshops that help them drive the biggest value out of their distribution investment. This year, Trust Customer Conferences in Frankfurt and Singapore over the past weeks again exceeded expectations for the 120 attendees who attended to "Get the Pulse of Distribution."

Trust International

Germany

June 16, 2015

Itesso Invites Hoteliers to Touch the Cloud at HITEC 2015

Itesso, the global innovator in Cloud-native hospitality technology, will demonstrate the Events, Tasks and Notification feature of the Itesso Enterprise Lodging System (ELS) for the first time at HITEC 2015, taking place June 15–18 at the Austin Convention Center.

Hotel Concepts

Breda, The Netherlands

June 15, 2015

iRiS Software Systems partners with Fiz to deploy real-time local curated content

iRiS Software Systems, the leading provider of guest-facing technology, has announced its collaboration with Fiz, the innovative travel content platform, to integrate Fiz content to the iRiS Valet family of products.

June 15, 2015

‘9 in 10’ Americans Now Demanding Mobile Tech Inside Their Hotels

"Adapting to the digital age is difficult in any industry. It's risky, it's scary and it's easy to sit back and watch the other guys try it first. But today, three incentives have emerged which should make it easier for hoteliers to embrace digital; this new study shows how the right mobile technology could save dollars, make dollars, and improve guest loyalty." Professor Ian Millar, Head of Information Technology at EHL (Ecole Hotelière de Lausanne, named the world's top hotel management school in 2013.)

June 8, 2015

New features from iRiS enable hotels to offer low-cost mobile check-in and door entry

iRiS Software Systems, the leading provider of guest-facing technology for the hospitality industry, is pleased to announce the launch of two new and highly innovative features: iRiS Check-in & iRiS Mobile Room Key. Both will be unveiled at HITEC, the world's largest hospitality technology show, taking place in Austin, TX, from June 15th to June 18th.

June 5, 2015

iRiS Mobile Key launched in collaboration with ASSA ABLOY Hospitality

iRiS Software Systems, the leading provider of guest facing technology, announces an integration with ASSA ABLOY Hospitality, the leading global provider of advanced hotel locking solutions. The companies have joined forces in order to provide access to the new ASSA ABLOY Hospitality Mobile Access solution through the iRiS interactive guest services application that is available to hotels for use in enhancing guest communication and services via their personal mobile devices. Through the new technology partnership, hotel guests will now be able to use their smartphones as digital keys to their assigned guestrooms. The solution will soon be available to any hotel in the world, whether independent or chain.