As hotels continue to operate with reduced staff, more and more pressure is being placed on departmental teams to find ways to operate more efficiently. To aid hotel accounting teams with streamlining invoice processing, Aptech, the industry standard for hospitality financial management, has partnered with Zaru, a company providing automated invoice processing solutions for hospitality businesses across North America. The integration partnership is enabling hotel accountants to receive critical invoice information accurately and efficiently while eliminating paper, removing manual data entry errors, and capturing cost savings.

Infor today announced that luxury hotel operator Apex Hotels has invested in Infor technology to create a standard platform across its entire property portfolio. Apex Hotels operates 10 sites throughout the United Kingdom, spanning 1,476 rooms in both three-star and four-star hotels. Infor has already delivered the first two of 10 implementations at the flagship Apex City of London - a property that boasts more than 200 rooms and industry-leading occupancy rates - and the Apex Dundee.

Infor today announced significant updates to Infor EzRMS, a leading revenue management application built specifically for the hospitality industry. Part of the Infor Hospitality suite of cloud-based solutions, Infor EzRMS is designed to help hoteliers better optimize revenue by automatically calculating demand forecasts and recommending appropriate selling strategies based on data such as day-of-week patterns, booking lead-time and the number of guests per room. Through a combination of state-of-the-art technology, sophisticated deep learning algorithms, and innovative business process design, Infor provides the opportunity for its customers to experience increased turnover, higher profit margins, and rapid return on investment.

The Ascott Limited (Ascott), one of the world's leading lodging owner-operators, has completed its migration to a cloud enterprise property management system (PMS) provided by RMS Cloud (RMS). As part of Ascott's digitalisation efforts, it has moved from separate self-hosted property management systems to a cloud enterprise solution that will enable it to increase operational efficiency and enhance guest experience across its properties globally.

As a member of our executive team put it when COVID descended upon the world and demand for the INTELITY platform rose significantly, "I always knew mobile technology would become really essential for hotels. I just didn't think it would be a game-changing virus that would make it happen." And it's true: really robust guest-facing technology has long been regarded as a core part of the future of hospitality—but one that hotels could put off investing in for the next few years. With COVID around for at least the near future, the world has changed and that's no longer the case.

Hotel marketing has always been a blend of creativity and data. There's equal parts of data-driven revenue management, copywriting and consumer psychology. At the start of the pandemic, marketing was put on hold at many organizations as operations adjusted to the new normal.

Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG) expands its assistance in industry job searching by partnering with Eric Rogers Global (ERG) to establish a formal process for executive recruiting.

Infor today announced that French hotel group Suitcase Hospitality is continuing to deploy Infor's EzRMS revenue management solution across its properties to standardize its practices across all of its facilities. The cloud-based solution, based on AI (artificial intelligence) and its extensive learning capabilities, provides hospitality professionals with enhanced revenue management functionality and advanced tools to help improve customer service, in particular to better anticipate the commercial services to be offered to them.

INTELITY®, the developer of hospitality's most comprehensive guest experience and staff management platform, announced today its partnership with Hôtel de Verbier in Verbier, Switzerland. The four-star property nestled in the majestic Swiss Alps will deploy key elements of the INTELITY platform, including beautiful 10" tablets for contactless in-room dining, a full digital compendium, amenity and activity reservations, messaging, and more, along with INTELITY's staff operations solution, GEMS®, to drive overall convenience and optimized operations.

Efficient distribution is fundamental for the long-term health of your hotel chain. Getting each property's inventory in front of the right guests at the right time at the right price means that you can convert more guests and enjoy profitable revenue management.