Amadeus, an industry-leading provider of hospitality technology solutions, has announced a new agreement with Sunway Hotels & Resorts, one of Asia's most prominent international hotel groups, to deliver a comprehensive technology solution enabling them to streamline reservations and loyalty programs across Sunway's 11 independent properties in Malaysia, Cambodia, and Vietnam, as well as future developments which include a new hotel in Malaysia's southern state of Johor, scheduled to launch in 2021.

Staying ahead in the competitive world of hospitality is already tough, let alone while recovering from a global pandemic. 65% of point-of-sale (POS) purchasing decisions are impacted by the opportunity to add new functionalities, features, or modules to their POS software so hospitality businesses must provide customers with best in class technology and premium services.

IDeaS was once again listed in WayUp's Top 100 Best Internship Programs in the United States. WayUp, the go-to job placement platform used by millions of early-career professionals, releases the top 100 internship programs each year.

As COVID-19 continues to disrupt travel around the globe, hoteliers face many challenges in running their business and planning for the future. The historical references and past data they once relied on to build their revenue strategies no longer aligns with current market trends, making it more critical than ever to have access to powerful business intelligence tools.

There is a radical change in the way the hospitality industry is operating compared to the last decade. From shifting guests away from the front desk and favoring mobile check-in to new sanitization regulations that call for constant vigilance, it can be a lot for any organization to process and maintain consistency ― particularly right now as guidelines and state regulations are subject to abrupt changes. The need for communications is increasing tenfold between hotel leaders, employees, and guests, as everyone must navigate the ongoing uncertainty and changing societal norms.

When The Gale South Beach, a Curio Collection by Hilton hotel, reopens in October, Volara will be there supporting travelers with a contactless guest engagement and touchless room controls solution on the Google Nest Hub in its guestrooms. Rather than picking up the phone to call room service or request a forgotten amenity at the front desk, guests can speak simply commands in their guestroom to enable private, automated and live and automated conversational interactions with staff.

Shiji Group, a global hospitality technology provider, today announces it has reached a definitive agreement to sell StayNTouch to MCR, the fifth-largest hotel owner-operator in the United States, for the purchase price of $46 Million, including potential earnouts. The much anticipated announcement follows months of negotiations between the two parties after the U.S Administration, in March of 2020, ordered Shiji to divest of StayNTouch, a leading cloud hotel property management system and contactless solutions provider.

It is widely accepted that the world emerging from the current crisis, will be one shaped by the new norms and cultural evolutions that are taking place today. Hoteliers who are ready to welcome guests in an environment that emphasizes their safety and personal value will be the first to recover. In the meantime, pragmatic solutions that empower hotels to 'do more with less' will help them weather the storm and strengthen short and long-term margins as the industry returns to growth. At Agilysys, our continually growing investment in R&D is being utilized to modernize the existing product portfolio and creating new products that enable hoteliers to leverage technology to enhance the guest experience. Many products we have released in the past year are no longer "nice to have" but are now "must-have" solutions.

Let's start by asking ourselves if there ever will be a post-COVID era - has the world not changed so much that we will one day look back and consider the time to be either before or after "VIRUS AWARENESS" became a global phenomenon? The time hospitality showed its resiliency, the time we went to virus-war and won. Because, of course, we will win.

Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, today announced that it is equipping the family-owned McDreams hotel group with Infor EzRMS, Infor's powerful cloud-based revenue management solution. Infor EzRMS uses deep learning AI to provide enhanced revenue management functionalities and helps to improve guest service.