Gulf Breeze, Fla. — Innisfree Hotels, a hotel management, development and marketing company, has put the finishing touches on their renovation of The Mercantile Hotel in New Orleans' Arts/Warehouse District. The renovations transformed the lobby, adding a spacious craft cocktail bar, rotating art gallery, inviting social area for networking and relaxing, updated business center and a gift shop. Additionally, the unique, all-suites boutique Hotel has added new pops of color and updated touch points throughout the rooms while maintaining its historic charm.

Angie Hospitality, developer of the industry's first 24-hour interactive guest room assistant purpose-built for the hotel environment, has announced the addition of PassPoint™ Hotspot 2.0 technology that leverages Global Reach Technology's Hotspot 2.0 guest Wi-Fi solution to its award-winning virtual assistant solution. This next generation Wi-Fi platform mirrors today's cellular connectivity experience, streamlining the authentication process and allowing guests to securely connect to hotel Wi-Fi with a simple click. With Angie's ability to provide guests with a private, in-room network in addition to an array of voice control and touch screen capabilities, the new Hotspot 2.0 integration further ensures that each guest can effortlessly and securely connect multiple personal devices, including Wi-Fi only tablets and laptops.

Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, today announced the completed acquisition of Efficient Frontiers, Inc. dba ReServe Interactive. Headquartered in Livermore, Calif., ReServe Interactive is a leading provider of cloud-based sales and catering, restaurant reservations, and floor management software that serves the restaurant, sports and entertainment, event center, golf and country club, and hotel markets in the U.S. and Canada. ReServe Interactive's highly scalable, dynamic, and intuitive sales and catering solution will enable Infor to offer more functionality through Infor CloudSuite Hospitality, and increase Infor's presence in non-hotel hospitality venues such as entertainment centers, stadiums, wineries and conference and convention centers.

The evolution of revenue management and success for the next generation of hotel managers are intertwined, not to say inextricably linked, writes Dr. Ravi Mehrotra, founder and president of IDeaS. Based on more than thirty years of experience in the space, he offers observations on how that is so—and where the future may lead.

Technology has dramatically shifted the way hotels engage with customers, says Cendyn’s Casey Munck. Continuous optimization based on unified data is the key to success in the future.

Cloud5 Communications has appointed hospitality technology professional Neil Schubert as Senior Vice President of Product Management and Development, bringing three decades of unparalleled experience and knowledge to lead the Company's product strategy and development team. Schubert will also drive development for new product innovation, featuring the Cloud5 Hospitality Dashboard Experience (HDX).

Crave Interactive, the world-leading developer of cloud-based digital guest service solutions for hotels, today announced a major investment by True Corporation, Thailand's leading telecommunications provider.

Angie Hospitality, developer of the industry's first 24-hour interactive guest room assistant purpose-built for the hotel environment, invites you to come and interact with their virtual assistant at The Mercantile Hotel New Orleans. The historic property, located within walking distance of both the city's famed French Quarter and the HT-NEXT event, partners with Angie Hospitality to equip its lobby and all 90 luxury guest suites with Angie's patented voice control and touch screen device. Stop in the Mercantile lobby anytime on April 8-11 to interact with an Angie device in a live site and learn more about Angie's latest innovations.

For the first time, Quore, America's fastest-growing provider of workforce communication and engineering/housekeeping management technologies, will bring its award-winning solutions to HITEC Europe 2019. Known to more than 3,600 hotels and 560 management companies in 29 countries as the "friendlier solution" and named a "2019 Top Rated Operations Product" for two consecutive years by HotelTechReport, European hoteliers will finally experience this cloud-based service optimization platform that is improving communications between guests and staff. HITEC Europe will be held April 9 to 11 at the Palau de Congressos Palma in Mallorca, Spain.

UgoVirtual™, the provider of a comprehensive digital platform designed to meet the growing virtual event needs of the global travel and hospitality sectors, has been selected to provide the technology behind BITAC Global Virtual, a newly created interactive BITAC event. This unique new digital event will debut as the industry's first online-only hotel industry networking forum, featuring live and on-demand educational sessions and scheduled one-on-one web conferencing between hotel organizations and top-tier providers. The new event aggregates the power of virtual reality, web conferencing and e-learning technologies delivered by the UgoVirtual platform.