The hotel distribution landscape is often touted as a duopoly held by Booking and Expedia, but we see it slightly differently. While they do command a sizeable part of the market share, there are actually other channels that hoteliers are leveraging successfully. After hundreds of hours analyzing the last five years of hotel distribution across a selection of our client base, we have produced a report to shed some light on how distribution has evolved and, hopefully, give some inspiration to hoteliers to optimizing it.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions today announced the 2019 IDeaS Cornell Management Scholarship recipients. As the leading provider of revenue management software and advisory services, IDeaS works in partnership with the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration within the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. The scholarships present hospitality professionals with the opportunity to earn online certificates developed by senior Cornell faculty leaders.

RMS today announced it has won a highly competitive tender to become the sole Property Management System (PMS) for The Ascott Limited (Ascott), one of the leading international lodging owner-operators.

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions has announced the successful implementation of VingCard Signature RFID locks at the Delta Hotels by Marriott Dallas Allen, a newly constructed modern luxury property located in Allen, Texas. Altera Development's decision to adopt RFID-based door locks by ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions is credited not only to the company's ability to provide the highest security technology standards, but also due to its reputation for leading the industry in customer service and support.

PITTSBURGH - Aptech Computer Systems announced St. Kitts Marriott Resort & The Royal Beach Casino installed PVNG Enterprise Financial Accounting system to simplify back office processes and provide comprehensive reporting. The St. Kitts Marriott Resort & The Royal Beach Casino is a 389-room luxury destination on Frigate Bay featuring nine dining outlets, the Emerald Mist Spa, and many other amenities. Aptech Computer Systems is the leading provider of business intelligence, budgeting and forecasting, and enterprise hotel accounting software systems in the hospitality industry. Click here for more on Aptech's products and services.

Hapi, the transformative new data streaming, integration and enrichment platform designed to solve the hotel industry's rapidly expanding data management challenges, has named Laurent Idrac, a 30-year veteran of the global hotel technology industry as COO for the company. Prior to assuming this new leadership role, Idrac served on Hapi's Board of Advisors.

The 2019 Lodging Technology Study reports that 2019 is the year "hotels gear up for the age of augmented authenticity." With Gartner predicting that by 2020, 85% of relationships with businesses will not require human interaction, it's clear that hoteliers need to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) today if they are going to engage guests through the channels they're most comfortable using. Volara - the voice hub for the hotel industry - cautions that embracing AI doesn't mean hoteliers can simply drop consumer-grade technologies into guestrooms and expect the devices to work successfully in a hotel environment. Installing off-the-shelf voice assistants in guest rooms without the appropriate software overlay adds no value to the guest experience. Rather, it could expose the hotel to liability and endanger hotel guests.

Cloud5 Communications, the leading communications technology and services provider for the hospitality industry, has recently completed the installation of high speed internet access (HSIA) at the new 95-room TownePlace Suites by Marriott, Louisville Airport in Kentucky. The advanced HSIA network by Cloud5 ensures that the property provides the highest level of connectivity for guest satisfaction and meets Marriott's latest Global Property Network Standards (GPNS) for Internet.

ALICE, the hotel operations platform that empowers operational excellence and meaningful guest experiences, today released new research that found a sweeping majority (81 percent) of consumers would like to receive local experience and hotel upgrade recommendations from their hotels.

Martin Resorts has selected OpenKey to provide mobile check-in, mobile key and mobile check-out at the Paso Robles Inn. The hotel's owner and manager, Martin Resorts, currently manage a collection of premier hotels along California's Central Coast. OpenKey is the industry standard for universal mobile key in hotels.