ALICE, the hotel operations platform that empowers operational excellence and meaningful guest experiences, today announced its recognition as one of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces of 2019. The Best Workplace recognition is awarded to organizations on the basis of an anonymous employee survey, the number of employees who complete the survey, and an audit of the organization's benefits.

INTELITY™, the provider of the broadest hospitality technology platform, announced today that it is unifying its back-office systems to reveal a more comprehensive solution. The expansion of INTELITY Staff will also feature a new and improved user interface designed to meet cross-departmental needs and seamlessly connect operations teams to guests and devices across properties and brands. The company will demonstrate its enhanced INTELITY Staff at HITEC Minneapolis.

Today travelers have even more control over their hotel room environments thanks to an integration partnership between Volara and INTEREL. Guests can raise or lower room temperature, open or close drapes, turn on or off lights, and ask for guest services such as "do not disturb" or "make up room" using simple voice commands spoken to any of the major natural language processing platforms including Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and IBM Watson. Volara's software provides a real-time conversation management overlay that enables INTEREL's Guest Room Management System to be controlled by the voice of the hotel guest - a frictionless, memorable and secure experience.

Angie Hospitality, developer of the industry's first 24-hour interactive guest room assistant purpose-built for the hotel environment, today announces its comprehensive 'global-ready' status, having received multiple authorizations and international certifications to operate in virtually every hospitality market around the globe. Combined with its original North American certifications for the US and Canada, Angie is now ready to complement guest room devices and property solutions in additional regions that include the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East.

Over 55% of workers who also work remotely (either occasionally or full time) struggle to concentrate in the office for at least half an hour each day, according to a new study conducted by Guestline.

June 17th-20th Minneapolis, Minnesota - Ireckonu will showcase their full product stack at booth 1108, during this year's Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC). HITEC is the world's largest showcase of hospitality technology, bringing together the best and brightest minds in the hospitality/tech industry as they present their innovative tech solutions and collaborate with industry leaders.

Angie Hospitality, developer of the industry's first 24-hour interactive guest room assistant purpose-built for the hotel environment, has completed its purchase of the assets of Roxy, a competing provider of speech-enabled virtual assistant technology for the hospitality industry. As part of the agreement, Angie Hospitality will assume management and support of all existing Roxy installations and customers worldwide. In an email to customers, Angie committed to a seamless experience for all current Roxy clients and to continuing to provide the latest advances in voice-enabled guest room assistant technology.

With new and increasingly sophisticated security threats continuing to surface within the hospitality market, the security industry has had to evolve its practices and offerings in order to meet the industry’s latest challenges. As these attacks become more frequent and faster paced, writes ASSA ABLOY’s Markus Boberg, hoteliers have recognized the critical value in being able take action immediately in order to minimize or even eliminate any adverse effects.

The competition is at an all-time high for hotels to earn guests' loyalty and many have turned to the latest technology to help them do so, whether it's Japan's hotel staffed entirely by robots or the new FlyZoo hotel using facial recognition in lieu of room keys. While these flashy tech initiatives are trending among media headlines, they don't always align directly with customer satisfaction. Hoteliers today need to find the right balance of technology and hospitality to cater to what their guests want.

Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), Agilysys Director of Casino Resorts, Ryan Carrier, will participate in a panel discussion at ICE Conference North America, taking place at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Mass., on May 14-15, 2019.