ALICE President and Co-Founder Alex Shashou has been selected for the "Next Gen Leader" award, by the Hospitality Media Group (HMG), which recognizes the brightest young leaders shaking up the hospitality industry. The award will be presented at this year's HX: The Awards ceremony.

When most people hear the word autumn, they picture leaves changing colors, crisp weather, and pumpkin spice in foods and beverages. For hoteliers, there's another season alongside it: hotel budget planning.

Remember that whiz kid in reservations? He had grown up with computers and seemed able to fly around the property management system with natural ease and skill. Sure, his job was just to answer calls and make reservations, but he had a knack for finding cool reports buried deep in the system. Not only that, but he had also somehow mastered Excel and was able to create dazzling charts that seemed to bring the numbers to life. We knew we had to nurture his raw talent, so we signed him up for some revenue management 101. He would become our savior, finally getting our pricing in shape and enhancing our top-line revenues.

London -- RateGain Technologies, the market leader in BI, distribution and revenue management, for travel and hospitality industry, today announced its strategic partnership with Condor Ferries, one of the leading operators of passenger and freight ferry services, to streamline and enhance their revenue management capabilities. The integration with FerryGain would allow the ferry services operating company to accurately forecast the demand of their sailings and receive effective price recommendations by way of data, reports, and alerts. This partnership is part of Condor's digital strategy to improve customer experience and forecast demand.

The Asia-Pacific region has always had a special place in my heart. Before moving to IDeaS HQ in the US in 2010, I spent a number of years based in Singapore, first helping IHG grow their footprint in the region and then educating hoteliers across Asia Pacific about revenue management by launching and growing IDeaS' then new consulting services arm (now called IDeaS Advisory Services).

HTNG's Citizen's Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) Workgroup developed a white paper to help educate hospitality IT personnel on the underlying technology, application of the technology and major use cases of CBRS.

Volara - the voice hub for the hotel industry - has been selected by Viceroy Los Cabos to provide voice technology within the guestrooms at the iconic, award winning resort. Viceroy Los Cabos, located on the Sea of Cortés in Baja California, is the first property in the Viceroy Hotel Group portfolio to enable voice-based conversations with their guests managed in real-time and securely integrated into existing hotel technologies by Volara's software.

SACRAMENTO, CA (October 30, 2018) - California Lodging Industry Association (CLIA) today announced the appointment of OpenKey as Exclusive Mobile Key Provider for the Association, whose mission is to promote, protect and advance the interest of lodging owners and their management teams statewide, and to provide a network of resources to support member efficiency, profitability and professionalism. OpenKey is the industry standard for universal mobile key in hotels.

Stop me if you've heard this before: In the age of OTAs and industry disruption, effectively managing a complex channel and distribution strategy is critical to a hotelier's bottom line. Yet archaic technology and a "this is how we've always done it" mindset are holding us back.

YOTEL Boston, a cutting-edge, tech-savvy hotel located in the innovative Boston Seaport district, has selected ALICE to enhance their internal communication, preventative maintenance, concierge operations, and guest engagement. This central Boston hotel is uncompromisingly designed for the guest experience, and is revolutionizing the traditional view of a luxury hotel stay by focusing on everything guests need, and nothing they don't. Through implementing ALICE, YOTEL Boston will create a seamless level of communication staff-to-staff, and guest-to-staff. ALICE is the hospitality industry's leading operations technology, connecting every department of the hotel with one platform for all staff communication and guest requests. ALICE recently acquired concierge software provider GoConcierge to augment its technology and customer service offering.