The Waterside Hotel and Leisure Club is a 46-bedroom contemporary hotel in Didsbury, Manchester. The hotel boasts impressive leisure facilities, following a £1.1m refurbishment, and also caters for weddings, meetings and events.

Sabre Hospitality Solutions,a leading technology provider to the global hotel industry expands its core Channel Connect offering to provide hotels with an intuitive channel management solution – a new tool to reach more online distribution channels and social media sites globally.

For the fifth consecutive year, IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of pricing and revenue management software, services and consulting to the hospitality industry, has announced the winners of the IDeaS Cornell Revenue Management Scholarship. Offered in conjunction with The Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, the scholarship is designed to help increase professional development opportunities in the field of revenue management.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of pricing and revenue management software, services and consulting, has announced that Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas has become the first hotel group in Asia Pacific and the Middle East to adopt IDeaS new pricing system technology. Anantara is now using IDeaS Pricing System to drive better forecasting and get retail demand-based pricing to market. The deployment builds upon IDeaS' existing working relationship with the hotel group.

Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced that the Hotel Westminster, a luxury hotel situated on center of the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, has selected Infor EzRMS to manage the property’s revenue management function.

Xn Hotel Systems is delighted to announce that it has commenced the distribution of procure.net, a best of breed stock & procurement management system dedicated to the hospitality, food & beverage and leisure industries. procure.net is proven in over 60 installations across Asia, Africa and Europe and is already setting the standard for hospitality best practice.

Chic and Basic Born based in Barcelona, has selected RezGain for managing their rate and inventory across global third party distribution channels. RezGain enables the revenue management team to increase their online revenue by ensuring real-time room and rate availability across all distribution channels through automatic allocation from pooled inventory.

When a guest checks out, his level of satisfaction will depend mostly on how well he feels he was cared for, and not only during his stay but beforehand and afterwards as well. With guest facing applications such as mobile apps, messaging systems or questionnaire tools, a hotel can specifically influence how a guest experiences and evaluates the hotel's services.

Hotel distribution often creates a confusing technology picture. As solutions proliferate and evolve, opportunities emerge to combine and simplify. Successful integration between previously separate applications and vendors is also becoming more common. This paper examines the background to the 500 shades of complexity and suggests options to help hoteliers equip themselves for more cost- effective and straightforward distribution by combining the strengths of channel management and CRS.

VingCard Elsafe, the global leader in hospitality security and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, announces the appointment of Nicolas Aznar as president of Latin America and the Caribbean, effective August 1. Aznar will be based out of the company’s regional offices in São Paulo and will report directly to company President, Tim Shea.