Guestline have undertaken their first international installation of the Best Western Two Way PMS Interface into the Best Western PLUS Maple Leaf Hotel, Bangladesh. Guestline's cloud hosted property management system, Rezlynx, Online Booking Manager and EPoS were implemented as part of the overall site install to provide an integrated reservation solution that complies with the Best Western mandate.

The intuitive JustIN mobile key app developed by SALTO communicates securely via the Cloud and enables a hotel guest to receive his room key online, anytime and anywhere. For the guest, the process is as simple as arriving at the hotel and deciding to receive the room key directly to his smartphone (iOS and Android devices) without going to hotel reception for the traditional check-in process. It's that easy.

There's a popular adage among business gurus: The best way to predict your future is to create it. Accurate forecasting is the foundation of a meaningful budget. An accurate plan influences committed expense money for the future and shows where it will come from. Without reliable forecast numbers, a hotel operator is managing their business in the dark.

FCS Computer Systems (FCS), a leading global provider of comprehensive hospitality solutions and services, has teamed up with Rotana Hotels for an industry-leading case study on their technology partnership. Rotana has partnered with FCS to bring the e-Connect solution to its hotels across the MENA region to help drive guest satisfaction through the optimization of guest services management. Looking to ensure smooth communication and efficient workflows between the hotels' various operational departments, in order to ensure consistency in service delivery, Rotana felt that FCS was the most beneficial company to work with.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of pricing and revenue management software, services and consulting, today announced IDeaS Function Space Revenue Management (FSRM) has been recognized by Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) as a TechOvation Award finalist.

Best Western Woodlands Hotel and Best Western Invercarse Hotel, both based in Dundee, are the latest clients to sign up for Guestline's solutions. These hotels follow a recent flurry of Scottish hotels that have also signed up including: The Normandy Hotel (a 144 bedroom hotel) and The Erskine Bridge Hotel and Spa (a 177 bedroom hotel), both of which are based near Glasgow.

The competitive landscape in today's hospitality industry is more intense than ever. Hoteliers need new ways to differentiate themselves in the eye of the customer to provide world-class service, while still driving profitability across every segment and business unit. But despite the fact that almost every hotel manages multiple revenue streams, team members within each stream still tend to make pricing decisions based on the impact of their line of business only. To maximize revenue and profitability moving forward, hoteliers will need to make a shift toward more holistic revenue management strategy.

Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), the membership association that unites the world's hospitality companies and technology innovators to solve industry challenges, announced that its members have awarded the 2015 "TechOvation Award" to connectBsmart by Interel.

"Mobile. Together." – is protel's motto this year at the ITB in Berlin. At the world's leading travel trade show, the software provider from Dortmund is presenting new software solutions to bring everyone in the hotel closer together. Hoteliers, hotel employees, and hotel guests communicate easily and in real-time using any type of device.

Hotel Ciputra Jakarta has selected Xn Hotel Systems to implement Protel's international property management system “protel single property edition” and the Xn point-of-sale system, to upgrade the total management and information systems of the hotel.