Cloudbeds, the hospitality industry’s fastest-growing technology provider, announced today the release of a new book titled, More Reservations, Happier Guests: The Ultimate Guide for the Modern Hotelier, as part of the company’s growing initiative to make hospitality education and resources more accessible. Now available to download at Cloudbeds.com, the guidebreaks downthe jargon to offer lodging owners and operators valuable insights and strategies to increase reservations, streamline staff operations, and create better guest experiences.

IDeaS, the world’s leading provider of revenue management software and services, and RMS Cloud, a provider of property management software and scalable technology for the hospitality industry, have today announced an enhanced partnership to maximise occupancy and increase revenue for hoteliers through an advanced technology integration that provides superior visibility into rate strategy and drives smarter decisions to achieve greater revenues.

Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) announced today its collaboration with IDeaS, a SAS company, the world's leading provider of hospitality revenue management software and services, to help drive commercial success and help enable franchisee revenue growth across its entire global enterprise of more than 7,000 hotels.

Los Angeles, CA (April 14, 2022) – INTELITY®, provider of hospitality’s broadest guest experience and staff management platform, announced today a new partnership with Empeiria High Sierra Hotel in Mammoth Lakes. The destination hotel for outdoor adventurers will implement the INTELITY guest-facing suite of tools, including a branded mobile app, mobile check-in, mobile key, and guest messaging.

The hospitality industry has proven to be highly resilient and adaptable, particularly over the last two years. Unprecedented times have resulted in positive movements and innovations in a new era. That’s helped organizations move beyond the status quo, and to generate new visions for what they can accomplish.

In this episode, we sit down with Iype Abraham, Commercial Development Director at Edwardian Hotel Group, to learn about the digital and cultural transformation the group began in 2019, and the decision to double-down on those investments despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

To say that the hospitality industry has gone through a transformative period in the last two years is an understatement. In one sense, the radical and sudden shifts have knocked the wind out of the industry as it once was. In other ways though, it’s been a valuable way to illustrate the dangers of the status quo. Hospitality technology as it serves the guest experience is still a vital goal on which industry leaders focus their efforts. But, in every era, that challenge becomes a different version of itself. So, hotel groups must continue to undergo change accordingly, too.

In the two preceding parts of this series on the Evolution of Hospitality Technology, we connected with five industry veterans to look at, first, how hospitality technology began in the early days, and second, how things started to transform. We round out the series (for now) with part three, exploring how mindsets have changed in the industry and among hoteliers, and where things could be headed.

As foreign nationals arrive in the U.S. on temporary Visas to help fill labor gaps, hotel operators can leverage mobile communication tools to remove the language barrier and assist with onboarding, training, scheduling, engaging, and recognizing employees.

Nomadix® Inc​., a technology leader in hospitality and multi-tenant industries, today announced the appointment of Michael Gray as global vice president of strategic partnerships focused on building deeper relationships and programs for hospitality brands, management companies and ownership groups. A hospitality, networking and enterprise communications veteran, Gray will closely align key technology initiatives with hospitality brand partners to increase value around products and services and meet their unique standards and requirements.