Next week Beekeeper will unveil a new mobile capability at HT-NEXT in New Orleans that will enable every hotel employee to check the most up-to-date work schedules personalized to them and delivered straight to their pocket via Beekeeper.

ALICE, the hospitality industry's leading operations technology, expands its reach in Europe with the placement and hiring of several hotel technology sales experts in key markets across the continent. ALICE has grown rapidly worldwide, including 250 hotels signed in Europe in the last 12 months alone. This team will accelerate ALICE's already swift expansion throughout Europe and provide market guidance and support for key European regions.

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 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.

Quore, America's fastest-growing provider of workforce communication and engineering/housekeeping management technologies, will showcase its award-winning housekeeping, engineering and guest-relations solutions at HT-NEXT, to be held April 8 to 11 at the Hilton Riverside New Orleans. Produced by HTNG and Hospitality Technology magazine, the 2019 event will focus on "Authentic Innovation" to help hoteliers discover new solutions that will make a real difference in customer engagement, satisfaction and loyalty.

Central data management platform, dailypoint™ has been named a semifinalist in HTNG's (Hospitality Technology Next Generation) 2019 TechOvation Award competition, which recognizes technology innovation in the hospitality industry. After two weeks of public voting and a judging panel of hospitality industry experts, dailypointTM was selected to move to the next round of competition.To be considered for the Techovation award, technology providers submitted a 90-second video to highlight how their product benefitted hoteliers and helped the industry to innovate. dailypoint showcased its patent-pending Data Laundry solution, which automatically reviews data points from all relevant hotel systems (PMS, CRM, newsletters, etc.), merges duplicates, corrects mistakes from human errors and ultimately creates a single profile for each guest. The clean data is then pushed back to the PMS and stored in dailypoint so that all data is up-to-date across sources, giving hotels one single source of truth for all guest data."dailypoint's Data Laundry solution is changing the way that hoteliers work with their data. It is transforming an unusable mess of unstructured data into a gold mine of guest insights that allow hotels to understand guests, personalize sales and marketing, improve operations, and generate more revenue," said Dr Michael Toedt, founder and CEO of dailypoint™. "We are thrilled that this innovation is being recognized by the industry and look forward to presenting our solution at HT-NEXT."The next round of the TechOvation Awards will take place on Wednesday, April 10 from 3:45-5:30pm in New Orleans, where dailypoint will present its solution at HT-NEXT. The judges will rank the presentations, and the audience will have the opportunity to vote to determine the 2019 TechOvation Award winner.About dailypoint™ - software made by Toedt, Dr. Selk & Coll. GmbHdailypoint™ is a leading #abovePMS solution. With dailypoint™ hotels can graft raw data into an asset, meaning a deep knowledge of each single customer. The patented data cleansing processes in dailypoint™ are the key to combine all important data sources like PMS, e-mail newsletter, hotel website, feedback system, WIFI and many more. dailypoint™ utilizes AI (artificial intelligence) and most modern machine learning algorithms to learn constantly more about the guests. The solution consists of 16 applications (apps) to provide a one-stop experience. Instead of running multiple un-connected systems, dailypoint™ users have everything in one solution. dailypoint™ is an open platform offering a market place with currently close to 100 connected applications and services. An open API policy allows an easy and simple integration.dailypoint™ is headquartered in Munich, Germany and has representations in: Switzerland, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, India, UK, USA and Dubai.

Associations Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG), Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®), Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association (HEDNA), and the OpenTravel Alliance charter a collaborative group to achieve consensus and generate implementation of Unique Global Identifiers (UGIs).

Hapi, the transformative new data streaming, integration and enrichment platform designed to solve the hotel industry's rapidly expanding data management challenges, has appointed John Figliolini as Vice President of Business Development for Data Travel, LLC, the developer of the Hapi platform. A proven sales and strategic account management professional specializing in technology solutions for over 13 years, Figliolini has spent the past six years focused on the global hospitality technology sector.

"People trust us to allow them to sleep safely and securely. There's a longstanding tradition of an innkeeper, that we fulfill that commitment to them. Has it extended naturally, with the same diligence, to the digital environment? Not always." - John Burns, President of Hospitality Technology Consulting.

Maybe you're getting sick of hearing about Millennial travelers but sit tight because they still matter — a lot. Millennials take more annual leisure trips than any other generation, and they'll soon be among the most profitable group of family travelers. Further, they are the largest segment of business travelers now, with 56% saying they (shockingly) create reasons to travel for work, according to Forbes.

INTELITY™, the provider of the travel industry's broadest enterprise guest engagement and staff management platform, announced today that they have teamed up with SkyTouch, the most widely used cloud-based hotel property management system (PMS). The integration will allow properties to use the INTELITY and SkyTouch technologies in tandem through the SkyTouch /CONNECT integration platform.