To help hospitality companies personalize all aspects of their engagement with customers while also delivering an excellent guest experience on site, Oracle today introduced a cloud services version of its industry-leading suite of hospitality solutions. The new Oracle Hospitality cloud services enable hotel and casino operators to better manage every aspect of their customer relationships and on-site operations, while simplifying their IT infrastructure and deriving value faster from new innovations.

Guestline are delighted to be awarded Preferred Supplier Status once again this year by Booking.com. Guestline are one of only 34 partners to have achieved this status out of over 700 channel managers that connect with Booking.com.

ALPHARETTA, GA. — Jan. 21, 2016 — Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that Saratoga Casino and Raceway, in Saratoga Springs, NY, has selected a comprehensive Agilysys solution suite — including Visual One™ PMS, InfoGenesis® POS, InfoGenesis® Flex and rGuest® Pay — to boost efficiency and enhance guest service at the popular destination attraction. The property includes a 100,000-square-foot casino, half-mile racetrack, two-story entertainment venue and three restaurants. A new 117-room hotel, which will feature an indoor pool, fitness center, Morton's The Steakhouse and more than 3,000 square feet of meeting space, will open Summer 2016.

International hotel brand Park Regis will soon call Europe home with the opening of its Birmingham property in March 2016. The hotel will be located in the former Auchinleck House building on Broad Street, which received a £50 million renovation to transform it into a modern silver-clad hotel offering 253 deluxe rooms, two junior suites and the largest presidential suite in Birmingham, as well as an à la carte restaurant, all-glass Saki Bar and Pan Asian Fusion Restaurant on the 16th floor.

ASSA ABLOY Hospitality Mobile Access, a highly advanced keyless entry solution developed specifically for the global hotel market, has now been successfully implemented on more than 100,000 guestroom door locks worldwide. An important milestone that demonstrates the rapidly growing demand for digital key functionality, this dramatic increase in the number of installations also confirms ASSA ABLOY Hospitality as the leading provider of mobile access solutions.

So, in the hospitality industry, was 2015 the year of Millennials? The year of mobile? The year of mergers? What about high ADR? Global expansion? Or all of the above? As we start 2016 all refreshed, setting our resolutions with big ambitions, hospitality-industry leaders have to set clear and achievable goals. Nobody wants to set resolutions that fail just three weeks in to the New Year. Setting goals means reflecting on the past year and what made it great. For hoteliers, now is the time to look at your hotel’s past - data - and reflect on what worked and what did not.

For some luxury hoteliers, the idea of mobile technology in hospitality is fraught. When customer service is understood as face-to-face interaction, the introduction of mobile technology is seen as an ill-suited replacement, an encroach on the time-honored traditions of hospitality. And when construed as such, there is also research that backs up these misgivings.

A new generation of travel technology spearheaded by the sharing economy, and, more specifically, Airbnb is going beyond changing traveler behavior to disrupting an entire industry, which is why it was named by Inc. as the 2014 Company of the Year. What has propelled Airbnb’s success, however, isn’t merely that it has created a marketplace for property owners to offer one-of-a-kind personal accommodations to travelers. It’s that the company has altered travel behaviors with an experience that offers a clever use of technology, a better perceived value for travel dollars and an individualized travel experience for travelers. There’s no reason hotels can’t provide travelers the same level of convenience and many are leading the charge already. Here are three opportunities to learn from Airbnb’s model.

William Grant & Sons has selected Guestline to develop a property management system for its flagship Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown, Speyside. The Glenfiddich Distillery is the home of the world's most awarded single malt Scotch whisky and owns a growing range of luxury accommodation and on-site cottages available exclusively for their guests and internal use.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of revenue management software solutions and advisory services, today announced a continued strategic collaboration with Statler Hotel to increase revenue performance across the property's 153 rooms with IDeaS G3 Revenue Management System (RMS).