UgoVirtual™, the travel and hospitality virtual solutions company, has partnered with Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG) to provide its industry leading virtual conference and event technology to transform the annual TechOvation competition to an online, virtually-enabled event. Traditionally held as a live onsite presentation each year during HT-NEXT, the industry's premier hospitality technology industry forum, the TechOvation Award recognizes and rewards new, innovative industry products and solutions serving the global hotel vertical market.

To assist the international markets build prediction models on the economic recovery post COVID-19 confinements, lockdowns and crisis we are publishing frequent updates from all the industries of Shiji's Chinese operations. We hope this can help management, strategy, marketing and operations teams of the various industries to develop their own plans for recovery and give some points of reference in this unique situation.

According to Lothar Wieler, head of the Robert Koch Institute, capacity in the German health system is at risk of being overwhelmed as a result of the coronavirus crisis. "We have to assume that capacity will not be sufficient", Wieler told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. In the best-case scenario, hospitals will have expanded to maximum capacity by Easter and the measures in place will have the effect of flattening the curve.

As part of the effort to keep the hotel technology industry fit and in shape until CORONA & Co allow us all back to normality, protel is showcasing its new release of protel AIR, the cloud PMS, especially for Hotel Industry Insiders.The "Industry Insider" series kicks off with two audience-specific webinars. One is aimed at consultants, offering them a quick and easy way to get the skinny: effectively evaluating the benefits of the new features from an operational standpoint within the hotel.The second is aimed squarely at technology vendors, showing them hands-on how mission-critical apps and add-ons are integrated directly within the PMS itself.

Is your hotel prepared for COVID-19 or future crisis situations? Do you have a communication channel for every single employee?

Unprecedented. A word we seem to read in every story since the novel coronavirus turned our lives upside down. There are children out of school, employees working remote, and families barred together by nothing but their front doors and the possibility of what's outside them. The world is standing still and it truly is unprecedented. But there's another word that comes to mind when I think of the toll COVID-19 has taken on the travel and hospitality industry: devastating.

Resilience is the watchword during a sharp downturn. Companies that skillfully navigate these choppy waters will have one feature in common: they will have prepared today to build resilience tomorrow, no matter which way the economic winds blow. And sometimes, those winds blow more fiercely than others.

Aptech Computer Systems celebrates 50 years of hospitality technology leadership in 2020. "We create solutions to increase our customers' performance and profitability. We are who we are because of the clients we have," said Jill Wilder, Aptech vice president. It is with great pride that Aptech's back office, budgeting/forecasting, and business intelligence hotel accounting software solutions are industry standards used by hundreds of hotel companies to run their businesses.

UgoVirtual™, the travel and hospitality virtual solutions company, has been selected to provide the technology behind the transformation of HEALTHTAC East 2020 to a comprehensive virtual networking forum and online event. Set to take place as originally planned on March 30 and 31, the interactive annual event is designed to connect qualified solution providers with C-level executives in all aspects of senior assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing /rehabilitation industries. In response to the travel bans that followed the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak worldwide several weeks prior to the planned onsite event, Senior Living News and HEALTHTAC, the event's organizers, made the strategic decision to pivot to a virtual event, rather than postponing or cancelling.

Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG) launches a new workgroup focusing on guest room entertainment to help improve buying strategies, technology research and development investment, along with the creation of a content strategy roadmap.