For the past nine weeks since our original blog post, we've continued to track hotel selling rates, planned opening dates, occupancy, and usage of out-of-order rooms among our client hotels. It's been interesting to monitor the extent to which hotel reopenings have stayed on track with initial plans and how demand has responded to the reopenings. The interactive tool we provide here illustrates how the four key metrics we've tracked have changed week-by-week from May 5th to June 30th.

Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, today announced the release of rGuest Service, a new and powerful cloud-native, SaaS mobile solution allowing properties to maximize staff efficiency, enforce brand standards, lower operating expenses and deliver a personalized experience to their guests, all from a mobile device.

D-EDGE circulated a White Paper in 2017 that revealed the significance and importance of Metasearch in the hotel room sales. Today, D-EDGE publishes a new report that analyses, not only the canonical metasearch platforms, but also all those advertising channels that contribute to hotels' direct revenue.

For everyone whose lifeblood is the hotel industry, the last few months have been heartbreaking. Of course, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc and unimaginable pain and hardship for countless people around the world, but we could never have imagined seeing the entire world stop traveling completely.

Ireckonu solidifies itself as hospitality's premiere Customer Data Platform. Ireckonu has continuously showcased their Guest Experience Framework as a Middleware platform that enables true guest experience.

Oracle Hospitality is committed to helping the hospitality industry get back to business. To support this effort, Oracle, with support from HTNG, recently hosted Innovation Week, a collaborative event dedicated to accelerating the industry's recovery and accommodating the rapidly evolving demand for low or contactless guest and employee interactions. The inaugural event drew 465 attendees across more than 200 hospitality technology organizations from 48 countries who came together to not only foster dialogue about innovation, but make it a reality. The event offered an expedited pathway to integration with Oracle Hospitality solutions, offering hoteliers more choices in technology to help them prepare for the new next.

As I've reviewed the "Commitment to Cleanliness" tomes released by major hotel brands and management groups over the past month, I've been impressed by the dedication and attention to detail from the teams' that put each together. Operating under extreme pressure as many of their colleagues faced furlough, they've outlined cleaning solutions and processes that will indeed make their guests feel more comfortable and mitigate risks to the health of both their staff and guests. These commitments create a new baseline standard — like air conditioning or hot water — without which it's not plausible to label a building with the term "hotel."

In the past, exploring opportunities in new source markets and demand channels came with both risk and time-consuming implementations on the part of the hotelier. To start, the exploration in itself was challenging and often left to vague promises and hope. It was hard to know what channels were producing, what the real target audience was, and what their buying power was. In simple words, "is this audience a good fit for my hotel, and will the revenue generated be worth the investment in time?"

INTELITY®, the provider of the travel industry's most comprehensive guest engagement and staff management platform, announced today a new partnership with JTB Corp, Japan's leading hospitality and travel service, to create VIP travel experiences for guests globally. The initiative will deliver robust digital capabilities and custom content in Japanese to guests through the INTELITY platform, giving JTB's travelers personalized experiences crafted for their specific needs.

PITTSBURGH - "I came onboard Horizon Properties Group in late 2015 and started to review cloud-based hotel accounting software systems. This was three years before the CV19 difficulty began. When we deployed Aptech's PVNG Enterprise Accounting this February we did not plan for a pandemic, but PVNG has been instrumental in our business continuity because now we can oversee financial performance and effectively manage operations remotely," said Joshua M. Morgan, CHTP, director of technology and infrastructure for Horizon Properties Group, LLC.