INTELITY®, the provider of hospitality's most comprehensive guest engagement and staff management platform, has been awarded Forbes Travel Guide Brand Official status for the fourth year in a row. Named the luxury hospitality industry's Official Mobile and In-Room Technology Provider by Forbes Travel Guide in 2017, 2018, 2019, and now again in 2020, INTELITY has further solidified its position as the unsurpassed leader in guest experience technology as measured by the highest standards in the industry.

In today's hotel ecosystem, guest data is scattered across many tools: PMS, CRS, official website... which leads to unreliability. In a recent study, CRM experts at dailypoint™ analysed over 4.5 million reservations across 120 hotels and found surprising statistics. The most striking is that the hotels had on average 2.3 profiles for their loyal guests - in other words, these hotels thought they had twice as many loyal guests as they actually had.

Global Hotel Alliance ("GHA"), a network of independent hotel brands worldwide, has entered into a partnership with Shiji Group, a leading global hospitality technology solutions provider, to provide their member brands with a suite of advanced hospitality technology products and services.

A strategic agreement between Alila Hotels and Resorts and leading technology provider to the global travel industry, Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), has helped to enable the luxury hotel brand to record significant incremental growth. Propelled by the need to drive both brand loyalty and individual property personality, the partnership made it possible for Alila to develop a personalized digital marketing strategy for its unique locations.

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Samuel Braun, with three properties in Berlin, announced today that it is switching its core property management system (PMS) from a closed legacy system to apaleo, the most open, next-generation cloud-based PMS. The new system is already live in one property, about:berlin Hotel, with the intention to use in other properties.

Shiji Group, a leading global hospitality technology provider, and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance (GFLA), Broward County's official partnership for economic development, announced the company is contributing to tech-focused job growth in the South Florida region with the addition of 70 new high-value tech jobs.

The Institute of Hospitality (IoH), a global community of hospitality professionals, and Amadeus, an industry leading provider of hospitality technology solutions, are proud to announce a new partnership in which Amadeus will provide data-driven insight to IoH members to help strengthen their revenue strategies and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Cendyn, the leading innovator in CRM, sales and revenue strategy for the hospitality industry, announced today the appointment of Chandrah Raleigh as Vice President of Project Management and Tina Markowitz as Vice President, Digital Media & Analytics.

Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, is thrilled to announce that it was awarded multiple HSMAI (Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International) Adrian Awards for its SynXis Digital Experience Web Design solutions.