Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG), in cooperation with the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) and the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), establishes a workgroup to summarize the new Federal laws clarified and announced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), provide best practices and define technologies to improve compliance.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the world's leading provider of revenue management software and services, announced today that Remarkable Hotels has seen a 19 percent increase in rooms revenue since implementing IDeaS Revenue Management System (RMS).

RateGain, a leader in providing SaaS products for travel and hospitality, today announced a multi-year partnership with Leonardo to revolutionize hotel distribution on a global scale.

VENZA has announced its commitment to Data Privacy Day ‒ an international effort held annually on Jan. 28 to create awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust - by signing up as a Data Privacy Day 2020 Champion. As a Champion, VENZA recognizes and supports the principle that all organizations share the responsibility of being conscientious stewards of personal information.

Today at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) here, Beekeeper is launching a new push-to-talk feature for chats designed for hoteliers who are too busy to spend time manually typing out messages to their teams. Rather than using less secure consumer platforms like WhatsApp to record, share and receive voice messages, the new feature will enable hotel management and staff to communicate more quickly and efficiently while on-the-go.

Two point five million! Well, nearly 2.5 million. That's how many apps the Google Play store has. Apple's store came in second at 1.8 million apps. For perspective, 1.69 million people live on the island of Manhattan. That's more than one app for every person on the island. Apps have become the go-to for managing our lives, both the operations (budgets, exercise, bill paying) and outer lives (work, social, news apps).

Next week at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS), Beekeeper, the No. 1 Operational Communication Platform in hospitality, will be standing ready in the ALIS Tech Lounge to network with hoteliers who are looking to better engage, optimize and retain employees. Named "Hottest Technology" at the inaugural ALIS Tech Challenge 2019, Beekeeper plans to reclaim this title at the 2020 competition by unveiling a new voice messaging feature for chats designed for hoteliers who are looking to instantly relay voice messages to their team.

Remington Hotels, one of the largest independent hotel management companies in the U.S. with over 90 hotels and more than 18,000 rooms of full-service and select-service properties, is offering guests the option to check in via mobile phone, request a secure digital key and proceed straight to their room upon arrival at its independent hotels nationwide using the popular OpenKey mobile key app.

Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), the leading software and technology company powering the global travel industry, and Accor, the world-leading augmented hospitality group offering unique experiences in more than 5000 hotels and residences across 110 destinations, today announced that they intend to create the first unified central reservation (CR) and property management (PM) platform for the global hospitality industry.

Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, today announced its Inspire user conference to be held February 4-7, 2020 at Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando.