Three travel mobile marketing trends in 2018
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The Growing Use of Technology and Robotics in Food Service
For example, employee turnover in the U.S. restaurants and accommodations sector was 72.9 percent in 2016, according to Restaurant.org . ... The Wall-E restaurant in China's Hefei Anhui province has a robotic workforce of 30 4-foot high units that take orders, cook, bake and serve by moving along tracks in the restaurant.
By Court Williams, Chief Executive Officer of HVS Executive Search, HVS
The Future of Hospitality: PMS and the Rise of New Technologies
The most widely recognized AI application in the hospitality business is chat-bots. ... They can get to your hotel PMS from anyplace and take orders, charge each in-room service, manage housekeeping, manage restaurant service, and much more.
By Harvey Norman, Owner, HospitalityTechGuru
What will the future hold?
I recently spoke with a colleague who told me that his class was having a discussion on robots in restaurants. ... Within a few years, we expect continued cost reductions will make a strong business case for the automation of many tasks in restaurant kitchens and bars.
By Tucker Johnson, Instructional Assistant Professor, University of Houston
World-first #TravelBrag AI analysis from Hotels.com reveals travelers' top social media brags
media mentions and latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology In the U.S., travelers are most likely to brag about Times Square, Miami Beach, Bourbon Street and rooftop bars in top American cities ... Perhaps more surprisingly, enchiladas proved twice as popular as modern art in Mexico City, ice cream scooped 10% of all San Francisco brags and Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurant in Hong Kong took second
10 F&B Trends and the next Big Bang for the Buck
in recent years. ... According to Mintel, there was a 214 percent increase in products in 2017 which included the mention of 'slow' in their product descriptions.
By Frank Schuetzendorf, Senior Lecturer, EHL
Making the Most of Briton's Habitual Dining Patterns
This is because 25% of consumers eating out have stated that they choose a restaurant because they "regularly go there." This equates to an incredible 2.8 billion visits per year in Britain alone. ... This is on top of the growing list of chain restaurants showing declining profits - with more convenient, local eateries in favour with Millennials.
6 hotel booking trends we’re watching in 2018
The AI race to better dynamic and personalized pricing Artificial intelligence certainly has plenty of flashy applications in travel . ... In recent times, chatbots , travel apps and personal assistants have all captured the imagination. But moving forward, hotels will find the real advantage of AI lies in pricing applications.
By Gautam Lulla, CEO, Pegasus
How is the Hospitality industry leveraging Artificial Intelligence to provide an awesome User Experience?
Amazon's Alexa for interactive experience By now Amazon's AI-based software service Alexa is visible in the online store. ... Clarion Hotel in Stockholm Clarion Hotel Amaranten in Stockholm is also making its name on the list of first hotels to use the AI-enabled chatbot butler which is an in-room assistant based on Amazon Echo
3 Hotelier Spaces to Dominate, Keeping You Ahead of the Curve and Delighting Your Guests
Hotels that fail to make this transition will stagnate in their old habits, failing to accommodate changing expectations, and quickly fall behind as the leaders in this field. ... A prime example of this was raised in an article by Hotel Industry Magazine , which claimed that "integrating the hotel management system with the restaurant point of sale application means that the hotel
By Alonso Franco, CEO and Co-founder, Arrivedo
The Future of the Hotel Internet Booking Engine
Some may question the viability of machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI), but in reality, it is the obvious evolution of the IBE. ... This could include restaurant recommendations within walking distance of the hotel based on the guest's social profile, or in-room music tailored to the guest's public likes.
By Glenn Wirick
How disruption is driving change for hotels - JLL RealViews
"Nowadays the property is not just a place to sleep; it becomes a destination in and of itself," Adler says. ... In Japan, guests at the Holiday Inn Osaka Nanba are now served by an AI concierge , which can perform tasks such as booking restaurants and recommending activities.
Interview: StayNTouch CEO on how our digital life has profoundly impacted our expectations of everything
We can see from our database that over 66% of the guests in hotels who use all our self-service modules (mobile check-in, and self-service lobby check-in), opt to check in through a self-service solution ... Working towards putting the guest in control of their stay is as important if not more important than AI. How do you think hotels can truly give the guest what they want?
By Jos Schaap, CEO, ROOMDEX, Inc.
Transforming the future of the travel experience, one mobile at a time
is slow and scarce in the industry. ... Once you have your ChatUI – you have to start getting enough data to make the bot smart – most people think that they can build a bot in a few weeks, and then they call the bot AI powered.
By Robert Meza, Head of Partnerships Travel & Hospitality - the ENTERTAINER, The ENTERTAINER FZ LLC
Hotel St. George set to open in Helsinki
When the hotel opens its doors in 2018, it will be the first in the Nordic region to offer guests an integrated wellness concept known as Care . ... Surrounded by art galleries, boutiques, restaurants, bars, and cafes, the square is a common meeting spot for locals and a cosmopolitan hub in the city.
Bizly Announces AI-Powered Messaging for Small Meetings – Liberating Meeting Planners and the Hospitality Industry from the RFP Process
This comes at a time when RFPs are facing rapidly declining response rates given the epidemic of "ghost RFPs" in the hospitality industry. ... Bizly provides access to thousands of hand-picked and exclusive hotel, restaurant and activity-based event spaces in the top 50 U.S. metropolitan markets.
Who's Headed to HITEC This Year?
Each year, we at ALICE run an analysis on the companies in attendance, and here are some of our findings: The Categories More so than 2016, companies in attendance this year at HITEC are more diverse than ... On the 3.45pm panel "Are Mobile Apps in Hotels Dead?"
Voice Search and its impact on the Hospitality Industry
An example would be "show me restaurants near me". Optimisations for local searches is another ball game that can be assessed in respectable detail in this guide . ... Voice search opens a box of new possibilities such as rise in local searches for the major players in the hospitality sector.
By Jogbojogbo Abdulrahman, Content Manager, Hotels.ng
Hospitality Technology 2020
When 3-D printed foods gain wide acceptance in the domestic markets, it has implications for take-away and eat-in restaurants alike. ... Artificial Intelligence (AI) appears to be the lifeblood of the advancements in robotics and IoT. Experts distinguish between generalized and specialized AI.
By Karthik Namasivayam, Professor & Director, Michigan State
What Google’s Pivot to an “AI first” Company Means for Travel
At ITB Berlin in March 2017, Google announced that it now considers itself an "AI-first" company, moving away from its mobile-first position. ... AI in action The deceptive thing about artificial intelligence is that it largely remains invisible, operating beneath the surface of our attention.
By Nancy Huang, Senior Marketing Director, Pegasus