INTELITY™, the provider of the travel industry's first and broadest enterprise guest engagement and staff management platform, will attend April's National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) Tradeshow & Convention in San Diego, CA. NIGA is the longest-running gaming tradeshow in history and the country's largest gathering of tribal leaders and casino executives, with 184 nations convening.

Shiji Group announced today that its subsidiary, Shiji Commercial Information Technology Co., Ltd., successfully completed the majority share acquisition of Hisense Intelligent Commercial Systems Co., Ltd. Shiji Group now holds a total of 82.75% of Hisense ICS, becoming the controlling shareholder of the company. Previously holding 25% equity, the new acquisition of 57.75% equity continues the company's strategy of retail technology growth. The 57.75% equity purchase amount was approximately 462 million yuan. Hisense Intelligent Commercial Systems Co., Ltd is a subsidiary of Hisense that specializes in manufacturing point-of-sale terminals and equipment. The company counts amongst its clients some of the largest retail and restaurant chains in China and the world. Through the acquisition of Hisense Intelligent Commercial Systems Co., Ltd, (Hisense ICS), Shiji will be able to provide its hotel, catering, retail, and other industry customers with hardware that is closely integrated with Shiji's products. This integration will create more value for its users and facilitate innovation for next-generation integrated cloud systems. "We are committed to becoming a comprehensive solution service provider for the larger consumer industry. In order to make this vision come true, we need to mobilize our resources both up and down the industry chain. The acquisition of Hisense will enable our company to provide customers with more comprehensive solutions," said Mr. Guan Dongyu, Vice President of Shiji Group. As the industry's leading provider of hardware solutions, Hisense ICS offers its hardware products for a wide variety of industries and currently serves more than half of the top 100 independent and chain retail outlets in China. Hisense ICS's high standards and experience in technology, R&D, quality, and service have enabled the company to lead the Chinese POS industry. By connecting Hisense ICS's hardware solutions with Shiji Group's software platforms, the company can further enrich its current global portfolio and meet changing market demands. Shiji Group's enterprise users can now streamline their operational and management processes through the complete end-to-end solution that connects hardware, cloud POS and world-class services together. This merger will create a single-solution provider to allow hotel and restaurant chains to focus on delivering superior guest experiences.

protel hotelsoftware GmbH is thrilled to announce its new role as PMS provider for the Estrel Berlin. The move unites two giants of the German hospitality industry: protel's innovative Enterprise Hospitality Platform has made it the world's most powerful and future-proof PMS; the Estrel Berlin, already Germany's largest hotel, is building a new future with a massive new addition.

SV Hotel, a selection of 10 hotels throughout Germany and Switzerland (eight branded, two own branded), announced today that it has successfully introduced apaleo, the world's most open property management systems (PMS), at Amaris, one of its own branded hotels.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the world's leading provider of automated revenue management software and services, reported record-breaking client wins across the EMEA region in 2018. With additional new hotel and car park clients in the pipeline, IDeaS expects 2019 to be another significant year, further bolstering IDeaS' industry leadership across Europe and around the world.

DALLAS - OpenKey announced today that five hotels throughout China, which include the MiniMax Premier Hotel Shanghai Hongqiao, Yunnan Mekong King Lang Hotel, Foshan Ceramik Hotel, Beijing ZMAX Hotel and Shanghai Ruby Hotel, have all integrated their Universal BLE Upgrade Module. The innovative technology from OpenKey adds mobile keyless entry capability to any hotel guestroom lock while maintaining the plastic keycard functionality.

It happens all too often that we start off the work day organized, and then somehow within a matter of hours (or sometimes even minutes!), we've ended up with dozens of tabs opened, with many systems running, and it takes tons of clicks and searching around to find the info we need when we need it. It's especially true for hoteliers, who work with many different systems throughout the day, and it is not pleasant.

Cloud5 Communications has been named a semifinalist in the HTNG TechOvation Award competition which recognizes technology innovation in the hospitality industry. After two weeks of voting, Cloud5's Hospitality Dashboard Experience (HDX) is among the ten entries chosen to move forward to the next round of the 2019 HTNG TechOvation Award.

Because surveys are proving to be an essential component of employee engagement, Beekeeper has added Hyphen - a cutting-edge feedback solution for conducting employee surveys - to its off-the-shelf integration suite. With Hyphen, hoteliers and human resources teams can capture employee feedback and use the responses to analyze satisfaction and performance trends or identify popular and important issues to be acted upon in real time. Hyphen's actionable surveys, pulse polls combined with analytics and AI powered insights are completely user-ready and easily accessible today from the Beekeeper Marketplace.

Hoteliers face a huge challenge when it comes to selecting a *PMS partner. With so many PMS solutions on the market, it can be a daunting task researching functionality, deciding on whether the system will be a good fit for your property. and most importantly whether it will deliver ROI.