Infor®, the industry cloud company, today announced that Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a vertically integrated 67-story hotel, gaming, entertainment and meeting destination conceived by Fontainebleau Development, will partner with Infor to implement key front- and back-of-house hospitality solutions to automate critical business functions. Through this partnership, the Fontainebleau Las Vegas team can utilize cloud-based applications specifically built for the hospitality industry to unify and refine hotel operations, create scalable processes, improve processes, and share real-time data, empowering business leaders to make more-informed decisions as the property prepares for its global debut in late 2023.

Apaleo, the open hospitality platform, has been selected by German brand, mk | hotels, to streamline its operations, leverage digital experiences for guests and staff as well as power its ambitious growth plans across the DACH regions and beyond.

Establishing a strong online presence is critical for lodging operators to stand out from the ever-increasing competition in the market today. In 2021 alone, Booking.com spent over $3.8 billion on marketing efforts, and other OTAs and big hotel brands have followed suit – dominating online hotel searches, driving organic listings down the page and making it harder for independent properties to compete for direct bookings.

ALPHARETTA, GA. — September 28, 2022 — While hotel room night revenue in 2022 is projected to reach $168.4 billion, within one percent of 2019’s pre-pandemic levels, continued staffing shortages are expected to contribute to slower recovery of revenue from food and beverage and other services, according to The American Hotel & Lodging Association 2022 State of the Hotel Industry Report. To accelerate food and beverage revenue recovery, properties such as Morongo Casino Resort and Spa are turning to innovative technology that enables guest self-service dining reservations and payment around-the-clock every day to stimulate increased revenue through additional availability and frictionless service.

Group and business travel segments are showing steady recovery in Q4, with 4.3 million group room nights already booked for H1 2023.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, a SAS company, the world’s leading provider of hospitality revenue management software and services, today announced the release of its Annual Hotel Revenue Management Ultimate Buyer’s Guide. The Guide was designed to help hospitality professionals who are facing serious post-pandemic challenges such as labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, inflation, and economic slowdown,

By combining air travel data and hotel data, tourism and hospitality organizations can gain comprehensive insights into air travel patterns and trends including air search, capacity, number of flights, bookings, and arrivals and derive correlations to hotels’ occupancy and demand.

While leisure and even group travel is starting to rebound en masse, from shifting markets to consumer privacy changes, there’s just no denying the extent to which the pandemic has reshaped the hospitality industry. Major shifts in guest expectations and the role of digitization are impossible to ignore when it comes to preparing for future success.

Cloudbeds, the hospitality management platform powering more reservations and happier guests for lodging businesses around the globe, announced today the release of Whistle for Cloudbeds, an enhanced guest engagement solution powered by Cloudbeds. Whistle for Cloudbeds gives lodging businesses the tools to drive incremental revenue, increase guest satisfaction, streamline internal operations and deliver more meaningful contact and customized interactions throughout the entire guest journey from discovery to post-stay.

Gilles Bonaventure is the Corporate Director of Guest Experience for Centara Hotels & Resorts. He has visited 93 countries and stayed in over 1,500 hotels, and his main expertise lies in providing solutions to hotels and Corporate Offices to improve their operations, in turn improving overall guest satisfaction. Gilles has worked in pre-opening teams, rebrandings, and operations of hotels and restaurants worldwide, in addition to founding his own company, and has amassed over 20 years of experience – which he now shares with us in this interview.