Shiji Group has been selected as the exclusive supplier of point-of-sale (POS) hardware for Beijing Daxing International Airport.

Since adopting Quore's workforce communication and housekeeping/engineering management technologies, operational efficiencies and guest satisfaction is improving at hotels managed by Eclipse Hotels Group. The London-based hotel management company operates Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and easyHotel brands across the United Kingdom, Europe and the Caribbean. EHG is the first hotel management company outside of North America to standardize its hotel operations from preventive maintenance to housekeeping to capital expenditures and much more on the Quore cloud-based platform.

Unless you're living a version of The Truman Show, you've seen the word recession floating around the web-o-sphere recently. The Marriotts and Hyatts of the world have been noticed using words like caution in light of the potential for the U.S., Britain, Germany, Japan, and Brazil to see a recession as soon as 2020. Further, North American hospitality and leisure CEOs are reportedly showing a decline in their confidence about revenue growth, according to PwC (AdWeek). From Brexit to various trade wars, to protests in Hong Kong, there's plenty to be concerned about. But don't panic; studies show that's a bad move. It's most important to start thinking carefully about how to handle a downturn in business if it comes.

In today's hospitality landscape, we are missing out on key opportunities to offer a truly personalized experience to our most valued guests. In the first part of this Guest Experience series, I'll cover how hoteliers can truly reach the gold standard of guest engagement by implementing a scalable, dynamic "framework" - starting with the Hotel Integration Platform.

As many of you know, the California Consumer Privacy Act will soon go into effect. Like GDPR, it has wide-sweeping effects for the hotel and technology industries at large.

INTELITY®, the broadest guest engagement and staff management platform in hospitality, announced today that it has inked a deal with FireKeepers Casino Hotel in Battle Creek, MI as part of the hotel's multi-million dollar expansion. The current hotel tower has been designated a AAA Four Diamond award winner for the past five consecutive years, and the new eight-story tower will align with FireKeepers' same standards of excellence.

dailypoint™ and MEWS systems, provider of a modern, intuitive, open, cloud-based property management software (PMS), have today announced a technology integration to enable MEWS customer base to connect into cloud-based dailypoint™ CRM and Central Data Management software.With dailypoint™ MEWS customers can exchange and centralize all important data sources of the hotel and create automatically a company-wide central profile for each guest.

The European Union's (EU's) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018 with a mission to strengthen the protection of individuals' personally identifiable information (PII).

ALICE, the hotel operations platform that empowers operational excellence and meaningful guest experiences, is excited to announce that after a year and a half of successful collaboration, it has expanded its relationship with Nordic Choice Hotels to 130 hotels. Nordic Choice Hotels has also designated ALICE the brand standard operations tool for four Nordic Choice brands- Comfort Hotel®, Quality Hotel ™, Clarion Hotel®, and Clarion Collection. Nordic Choice Hotels is the Nordic and Baltic region master franchisee of Choice Hotels International and is well-recognized for their innovation.

Nomadix, Inc., a provider of guest-facing cloud-managed network edge devices, has announced the launch of its EG 6000 Upgrade Program to provide hoteliers with the advanced capabilities and bullet-proof security offered in this top-rated gateway platform. With today's hotel networks having to support multiple guest devices that access massive amounts of data, the Nomadix EG 6000 Upgrade Program ensures that hotels and convention centers are able to seamlessly support from 500 to up to 8,000 devices simultaneously per gateway, and when using the gateway's clustering feature, tens of thousands of guest devices can be supported. As the on-premise portion of the Nomadix Cloud solution, the gateway is the front line in the creation and support of the hotel network. The EG 6000's ability to support up to 6 gigabits of throughput ensures critical internet traffic flows smoothly.