As vaccine distributions continue worldwide, the demand for traveling is returning as evidenced by airlines and hotel bookings. Tripadvisor says 67% of Americans plan to travel this summer, and the “Big Four” - United, Delta, American and Southwest - U.S. domestic airlines agree that leisure travelers are rapidly returning to air travel over the next couple of months.

Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that the Hotel Am Triller in Saarbrücken, Germany, will deploy Infor Hospitality Management Solution (HMS) in the AWS cloud. By moving its IT infrastructure to the cloud, the owner-managed hotel is reacting to the current digitalisation trend in the hospitality industry and helping secure its competitiveness long term.

There is no doubt that the COVID pandemic and the subsequent travel lockdown wreaked havoc on hotels. But now that the worst appears to be behind us, we can look back and identify some small opportunities that the pandemic created. It gave us a time to pause, reflect and – in many cases – reset.

Across industries, millennials have steadily transformed the workplace. Born between 1981 and 1996, millennials come to the table with a unique set of priorities, motivations, and commitment to political awareness. They are innovative, value-driven, curious, and, despite any stereotypical assumptions perpetuated through the ranks, they are a hard-working group.

HTNG, in partnership with The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI), is in the process of forming a new workgroup to combat the current divide between marketing and information technology departments in the hospitality technology industry.

Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation cloud-native SaaS and on-premise hospitality software solutions and services, today reported operating results for its fiscal 2021 fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.

Village Hotels has selected Volara to voice enable all guestrooms and guest services in its portfolio of hotels across the United Kingdom with Google’s hotel solution. Volara’s conversation-management software and secure integrations hub will enable guests staying at any of the innovative hotel brand’s 32 properties to use simple voice commands to interact with the hotel and personalise their experiences, from making service requests and setting alarms to asking for local recommendations and or hotel information.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchising company with over 8,900 hotels across nearly 95 countries, today announced the roll out of the next-gen Oracle Hospitality OPERA Cloud Property Management (PMS) to its full-service hotels, making it the first major hotel company to adopt the system globally. The decision comes following successful pilots at nearly 50 Wyndham hotels over the last nine months.

Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 70,000 customers in more than 200 countries and territories improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, and with an innovative user experience design that is simple, transparent, and elegant. Infor provides flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both.

ALICE, the leading hospitality operations and hotel management platform, today announced its integration with Chexology, a groundbreaking technology that automates transactions involving the exchange of items for a claim ticket, such as luggage storage, coat check, personal items and more. The integration enables hotel employees to link checked items with a guest’s hotel reservation, eliminating the need for a single-use paper ticket and ensuring that items are correctly logged and connected with guest profiles. The ALICE and Chexology integration digitizes and improves a vital part of the hotel guest experience and streamlines the work done by front of house hotel employees. Together, the two companies provide a contactless and enhanced guest-centric experience, making the check-in process seamless. “Hotels offer paperless registration, keyless entry and automatic billing so it’s only natural to heighten the guest’s experience with a mobile-first approach at the first and last point of contact,” said Derek Pacqué, Chexology’s founder and CEO. “Paperless check-in eliminates error-prone processes, modernizes systems and reduces the expense of paper to improve our carbon footprint.” The integration is live at the 512-room Circa Resort & Casino Las Vegas, where employees can check-in guest items with Chexology and search for the guests within ALICE to connect personal items to hotel reservations. “The team at Circa needed this integration,” said Will Baez, Circa’s hotel manager. “When guests pay a certain price to stay here, there is something off-putting about having to hand the guest a paper ticket. We are a tech-forward property and the future of Las Vegas.” Key benefits include: Text message communications OCR technology Stored images of belongings Action list to balance assigned tasks Assign storage locations Search to return and one-touch return Multi-Item tagging Insights and analytics reporting “We’re thrilled to integrate with Chexology, further enabling a streamlined guest and employee experience for our partner hotels,” said Dmitry Koltunov, ALICE’s chief technology officer and co-founder. “Guests have come to expect technology and contactless hospitality at every step of their hotel experience, and our partnership with Chexology gives employees the tools to provide that for guests.” About ALICE ALICE is the leading all-in-one hospitality operations platform that enables hotel staff to do their most impactful work without all the guesswork. Task management, real-time communication, and operational analytics reduce the complexity and chaos of hotel operations providing the transparency and flexibility needed to run efficiently. Founded in 2013, ALICE works with more than 2,500 hotels and tens of thousands of hotel staff across many of the world’s leading brands, including Marriott International, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Graduate Hotels, and Grupo Posadas. ALICE is a Top 10 Best Places to Work in Hotel Tech by Hotel Tech Report in 2021, winner of Best Concierge Software, a Top 10 People's Choice Software and Finalist for its Preventative Maintenance Software, Housekeeping, and Staff Collaboration Tools, at the 2021 HotelTechAwards. https://www.aliceplatform.com/ About ChexologyChexology (builders of CoatChex), the Shark Tank-featured company that digitally transformed the coat checking industry, uses groundbreaking technology to automate any transaction that involves the exchange of items for a claim ticket, such as luggage storage, coat check, rentals, personal items and more. The company eliminates millions of single-use paper claim tickets each year. Using a text-based application that modernizes checkrooms, Chexology delivers an unprecedented guest experience and provides data-driven insights to optimize hospitality management. Chexology’s clients include Barclays Center, Circa Casino and Resort, House of Blues Boston, ICC Sydney, Javits Center, Live Nation, MoMA, among others. For more information about Chexology, visit www.chexology.com or follow @chexology on LinkedIn.