KEYPR®, the enterprise technology company whose cloud-based platform is the leader in guest experience and staff optimization, announced today that it has partnered with Scribd, the premier digital reading subscription service, to offer its library of more than 1 million of the best ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines to hotel rooms worldwide.

Smart Space by IDeaS was honoured by HSMAI, the world's leading hospitality sales and marketing association, for its innovative role in allowing hoteliers to analyse the trends and performance of their meetings and events (M&E) space.

This week, ALICE, the hospitality industry's leading operations technology, is celebrating the hire of its 100th employee.

Data Travel, LLC, a hotel technology company comprised of hospitality technology industry veterans, integration experts and data scientists, has unveiled a transformative data streaming, integration and enrichment platform designed to solve the hotel industry's rapidly expanding data management challenges. Appropriately named HAPI, the comprehensive new platform aggregates the plethora of data that is collected by disparate hotel systems and acts as a central hub for these hospitality data streams.

The Parker Palm Springs has selected ALICE's housekeeping and maintenance software, ALICE Staff, ALICE's concierge software, ALICE Concierge, and ALICE's guest text messaging solution, ALICE Guest, to upgrade staff communication and guest engagement at the 144-room luxury resort, just outside of downtown Palm Springs. Parker Palm Springs is using ALICE on the recommendation from the Parker New York, which has been using ALICE since 2015. 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.

SnapShot GmbH announces Mr. S. Carson Booth has joined as CEO to lead the company into its next stage of growth.

Global hospitality management software company Xn protel Systems proudly announced today that its long-standing POS customer, Rocco Forte Hotels, is moving to its full-service, cloud-hosted, xnPOS Point of Sale solution, after many years of using Xn's dotPOS system.

Influencer marketing doubled in 2017, according to a recent study from Klear.1 For those new to influencer marketing, influencers can be defined as people with large audiences who post on social media about an organization and are compensated for their efforts. When it comes to marketing your hotel, partnering with influencers is all about building buzz among potential guests to increase transient visits and among planners to increase event leads. In his book The Art of Community, Jono Bacon shares, "Buzz is about excitement and excitement is about dreams."2 And isn't travel all about making dreams come true?

Today's hotel managers are facing new challenges, but they are all driving towards familiar goals. Hotel Management 2020 identifies key challenges in the industry and actionable solutions that your team can begin to implement today. Learn innovative ways to manage guest expectations in hotel reservations, ensure sustainable growth in sales and catering, and deliver flawlessly in operations.

Leveraging Machine Learning, RevGain - Packages, an industry leading comprehensive big data solution by RateGain provides competitive pricing data and optimal pricing as well as unconstrained sales, city demand and pick-up forecasts for the package tour industry with significant contribution to topline revenue, which flows straight to the bottom line