Today’s fluctuating markets and traveler behaviors dictate a hotelier’s need for real-time data to adapt to trends and identify every available revenue opportunity. With data spread across systems, hoteliers can sometimes experience information overload and challenges in extracting actionable insights.

Attendees at this year's HITEC will get an exclusive preview of the latest innovations from TraknProtect, a pioneer of location-based technology and hotel safety buttons purpose-built for the hotel environment. The company is a featured exhibitor at the 2022 Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC®) in Orlando, which takes place June 27-30, 2022.

Shiji, the hotel technology innovator, is launching Simplify by Infrasys at HITEC Orlando. A new and innovative point of sale solution created for Hospitality F&B businesses in the Americas needing a simple-to-learn and easy-to-manage POS solution.

In the last of our miniseries with Taylor Scott, we break apart the fundamentals of what the hospitality industry needs to start, stop, and continue doing to improve staff retention. We are at an inflection point with the staff experience in our industry where staff have different expectations about what their employers should prioritize to support them. Taylor walks us through realistic steps on how to identify what your staff truly needs, and how to put your strategies into action. Take a listen and learn how to improve the experience and culture among your teams.

For an optimal casino resorts guest experience, freedom, fun, comfort are the watchwords for success. This hasn’t changed all that much since the industry began. But times and contexts that define those key objectives change all the time. With them, casinos and resorts organizations must change too, by looking at what a great experience means today and what it will come to mean tomorrow.

Aptech is pleased to announce that Newport Hospitality Group (NHG) has selected PVNG as the cloud-based enterprise accounting solution for its portfolio of 50 select and full-service hotels. Immediately, the hotel management company will begin leveraging the seamless platform to move data more efficiently from individual properties to a central accounting repository. To complement PVNG and enhance its financial technology stack, Newport will also add Aptech’s budgeting and forecasting solution, Targetvue, and eventually layer in its IBM Cognos-based ASP BI application, Execuvue.

Crave Interactive, a leading global hospitality technology company, has signed agreements with RCD hotels to provide in-room tablets to over 3,300 rooms in their hotel portfolio.

"One of the key things we learned is we're no longer just selling rooms as a hotel," Reinier Bunnik, Operations Director at Zoku, told us. "We're selling time and square meters, and this is where we had the opportunity to provide what we call 'hybrid hospitality.'"

Nomadix® Inc​., a technology leader in hospitality and multi-tenant industries, today announced its new product line, Nomadix Alerts. This solution includes a smart badge, a cloud-based incident and analytics dashboard, and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons. Nomadix Alerts helps safeguard isolated hotel staff from threats and harassment and offers built-in fall detection. The device also monitors, alerts, and reports on the quality and security of the hotel’s Wi-Fi network. Nomadix will showcase the new solution at HITEC Orlando, June 28-30, 2022, at booth #1617. HITEC attendees are welcome to stop by for a demonstration.

For hotel management and development company Concord Hospitality frontline hotel workers are the heartbeat of the organization. From the front desk and sales offices to housekeeping and maintenance, these associates make up an intricate guest service and support network that is making Concord Hospitality hotels great. The key to employee engagement is Beekeeper, a communication and collaboration app that keeps this enterprise “hive” buzzing with information that is easily accessible by everyone.