CWT, the B2B4E travel management platform, announces plans to simplify its EMEA operating model within four geographies this month. Following the successful move from a country to a cross-functional EMEA operating model across several major markets last year, CWT is to move its Greece, Morocco, Eastern Europe & Baltic local market management this month into cross-functional Market Management Teams.
VisitEngland has partnered with SiteMinder, the global hotel industry's leading guest acquisition platform, as part of its effort to boost domestic and international numbers across England. The tourism board has established Tourism Exchange Great Britain (TXGB), an online resource designed to align local tourism suppliers of all sizes with a range of English and global distributors, and now accessible to all SiteMinder hotel customers.
Cendyn, the leading innovator in CRM, sales and revenue strategy for the hospitality industry, announced today the appointment of Emma Johnstone to Vice President of Sales, EMEA, and Ricky Castoldi to Vice President of Sales, Americas.
Duetto sits down with Jonathan Liu of GLH Hotels, Neetu Mistry of Cycas Hospitality and Joe Pettigrew of Starwood Capital Group to discuss how hotels can prepare amid Brexit uncertainty.
HRS Hospitality & Retail Systems, Oracle Hospitality's largest Platinum Partner worldwide, has appointed Nils Øyvind Karlsen to the position of Business Development Director Food & Beverage EMEA. Nils will focus on the development of HRS' POS strategy in this region.
Bigger, bolder and now independent - Big Box Hotels are increasingly breaking off from major brands and deploying their expansive meeting spaces, extensive room inventory and outstanding technical services to become independent operators.
SiteMinder, the global hotel industry's leading guest acquisition platform, has delivered its 100 millionth online hotel booking of 2019 to mark the first time a cloud-based hotel distribution platform has processed more than 100 million hotel bookings within any given year.
Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that Whittlebury Park Hotel & Spa, in Northamptonshire, UK., has selected rGuest® Seat to improve the dining reservations experience and provide servers visibility into guest food and beverage preferences, along with rGuest Pay to ensure the security of guest payment information.
"Our industry is diverse: The hospitality industry is very fragmented. The raise of AirBnB proves that guests are demanding highly individualized offers. The pressure on hotels to differentiate and make their specific offering transparent end come alive to guests is increasing."
dailypoint and D-EDGE - part of the Accor Group - are pleased to announce a global strategic partnership combining the CRS of D-EDGE, one of the leading providers of digital solutions for hotels, with the CRM and guest data management platform of dailypoint.
Two Dutch travel technology companies,Tiqets and Bidroom, have been awarded for tourism industry innovationat the Uzakrota Travel Summit, Istanbul, 13 December. Bidroom, an online hotel booking community for frequent travellers, picked up the award for Top Foreign Travel Startup of the Year 2019.
