With a share of more than 90% of the search market worldwide, Google should be a top priority for hotel marketers and revenue managers when it comes to being found online. The challenge is that hotel search results are often dominated by big hotel brands and online travel agencies (OTAs), driving organic listings down the page and making it harder for smaller, independent properties to compete.

The NYU School of Professional Studies Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality (Tisch Center), a thought leader in the study of hospitality, travel, and tourism, today announced a new initiative with RateGain Travel Technologies Limited (RateGain), a global provider of SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, that will help to develop future hospitality talent and be part of an ecosystem for fostering innovation in the hospitality, travel, and tourism sector.

2021 was rich in innovation: we helped hoteliers capture demand and position themselves in the world of e-commerce with MediaGenius, the first multi-digital management platform to centralise, simplify, organise and optimise the management of their digital marketing campaigns and with Fusion, the first website offering a fully integrated and seamless booking process.

Cloud5 Communications, a leading provider of communications solutions and Managed IT Services for more than 5,000 hotels, MDUs, and commercial facilities across the Americas, has today announced the unveiling of its “Flip to SIP” program in response to the FCC mandate requiring the termination of POTs-based telecommunication lines. The program is specifically designed to provide businesses with a streamlined, cost-effective solution to transition to more modern telephony and become FCC compliant, while sidestepping rate increases that may rise by as much as 75 – 150 percent for POTs lines, as the transition deadline nears.

Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that LA VILLA, a renowned hotel and event venue on Lake Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany, has decided to upgrade to the Infor HMS hospitality management cloud solution. This move is expected to boost efficiency and agility as the venue strives to achieve new levels of excellence in providing guest experience.

Nomadix® Inc​., a technology leader in hospitality and multi- tenant industries, today announced its newly named and expanded product line: Nomadix Networks. Adding to its leading portfolio of internet gateways and guest-facing technologies, the company now offers wireless access points, controllers and LAN switches designed to comply with stringent hospitality standards, including Marriott’s GPNS. Nomadix Networks enables hotels and multi-tenant operators to affordably upgrade their infrastructure with the latest Wi-Fi 6 technology and effectively meet the exponential internet and IoT growth demands, while providing secure and easy management for properties.

Hapi, the hospitality industry’s leading platform for fast and cost-effective connectivity between technology systems, has announced a collaboration with Stayntouch, a global leader in guest-centric cloud hotel Property Management Systems (PMS) and contactless technology. Through the integration, hoteliers and technology solutions providers can now access and share data with Stayntouch as well as more than 100 other solutions providers by writing to a single Hapi API.

Zaplox (Nasdaq: ZAPLOX), the market innovator of the contact-free mobile guest journey and mobile key services for hotels, resorts and casinos, and Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation cloud-native SaaS and on-premise hospitality software solutions and services, continue to sign new customers in North America and Europe. Agilysys rGuest Express together with Zaplox mobile keys is the perfect combination for a complete contact-free check-in and check-out solution.

Cendyn, a catalyst for digital transformation in the hospitality industry, has been named one of the top five innovators in hospitality technology. A recent study by h2c evaluated the state of technology across automated personalization (AP), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) by surveying 86 hotel chains from around the world. The findings highlight the leading technology platforms, including Cendyn, that are championing for a better future for the industry.

Nomadix® Inc​., a technology leader in hospitality and multi-tenant industries, today announced a new software release to enable its family of internet gateways to bring significant improvements to the Wi-Fi network for large-scale venues that critically depend on uninterrupted internet access and very high throughput. The new functionality expands scalability, capacity and high-availability for the Wi-Fi network to support large conference centers, high-occupancy hotels, large apartment buildings and student housing so they can offer simultaneous high-bandwidth activities without performance degradation.