Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Australia & New Zealand. This set covers January to March 2012, taken on the 1st week of January 2012 (all rates are in US dollars for two adults for a one-night stay).

CLEVELAND - Jan. 12, 2012 - Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading provider of innovative information technology and hospitality software solutions, today announced that The Hotel Modern New Orleans has selected the Agilysys Guest 360™ property management system (PMS) and the Agilysys InfoGenesis™ POS solution to streamline operations and deliver personalized guest service. The 135-room property, which is owned and managed by August Group NYC, opened Dec. 16.

KABA delivers greater guest security at convention hotel "Hyatt Regency New Orleans is the city's premier meeting and convention hotel with more than 200,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event space and 1,193 guest rooms. The new Saflok system interfaced with Schindler's PORT Technology efficiently provides guests with the most efficient elevator service possible," said David Fifer, Director of Engineering, Hyatt Regency New Orleans. "The system also enables greater security. It ensures that only keycard holders may access the guestroom floors during defined hours of operation."

Hotel rate parity trends for January to March 2012 of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Middle East. The report shows the percentage of hotels with cheaper rates on their own brand site compared to their rates on other OTAs.

Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Middle East. This set covers January to March 2012, taken on the 1st week of January 2012 (all rates are in US dollars for two adults for a one-night stay).

There isn’t much change in the overall rate parity scenario in 3, 4 and 5 star category hotels in Middle East region. Similar to RateGain’s previous report, between January and March 2012, on an average only 3% hotels are in parity i.e. similar rates on brand sites as well as global and regional OTAs. In 3 star category, on an average only 5% of the hotels maintain rate parity between their brand sites and different channels where as 47% of the hotels are cheaper on their brand sites.

Following a successful implementation at Naked Stables Private Resort in 2011, Naked Home Village is the second resort of China-based Naked Retreat Collection to go live with protel Multi Property Edition (MPE). The system is also used at the company’s Central Reservations Office in Shanghai.

Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Asia. This set covers January to March 2012, taken on the 4th week of December (all rates are in US dollars for two adults for a one-night stay).

Hotel rate parity trends for January to March 2012 of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Asia. The report shows the percentage of hotels with cheaper rates on their own brand site compared to their rates on other OTAs.

Similar to their counterparts in the US and Europe, hotels in Asia are heavily dependent on regional and global OTAs to generate online bookings. Instead of maintaining rate parity across all sites, they prefer to offer their best & cheapest rates to their OTA partners.