To take advantage of the growing number of visitors researching and booking travel online, Aqua Hotels & Resorts recently switched to Sabre Hospitality Solutions for its industry expertise and complete distribution solutions. This change has resulted in an amazing 38% increase in conversion rates on its Website since switching to the Guest Connect booking engine.

According to Internet World Stats (www.internetworldstats.com), there are over 1.9 billion Internet Users (roughly 28.7% of the world’s population). Over 77% of the North American population uses the Internet, followed by Oceania/Australia (61.3%) and Europe (58.4%) with the highest levels. As of July 2010, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. There are now over 100 million Twitter accounts, tweeting 65 million messages per day.

When you are setting the hotel industry standards for luxury and prestige, you cannot have guests complaining that their mag-stripe keycards have been demagnetized by their cell phones. For hotels with thousands of rooms, door lock reliability is particularly important.

Château Cartier is changing to FastBooking technologies and solutions for its online booking, distribution and channel management. FastBooking is one of the world's leading providers of advanced Internet booking systems and e-marketing solutions for the hospitality industry. The hotel, located in Gatineau (Ottawa Canada) and which boasts 'the most beautiful 18-hole golf course in the Ottawa-Gatineau region' as well as health and spa amenities, a new restaurant/bar, and executive conference center, is replacing its existing online booking system with the FastBooking Engine.

The recent opening of the Hotel Jumeirah Beach of protel`s long-standing customer Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts confirms the dedication and commitment with which Germany`s protel hotelsoftware GmbH continuously and successfully expands its business internationally. The Jumeirah Beach Hotel benefits from the wide range of products, which is perfectly aligned with the requirements of this hotel.

IDeaS Revenue Optimization, the leading provider of pricing, forecasting and optimization solutions and services, today announced the appointment of Sivaprasad Gangadharan as the Regional Director Sales for India and the Sub-Continent.

Hospitality as good as it gets and yet - there's always room for a bit more. La Sivolière, once the best kept secret of Courchevel, demonstrates what it means to aim high. At the end of last year, the charming chalet-style hotel has reopened after extensive redecoration - the ideal moment to reconsider the hotel management software as well. Now, Ideosoft, French business associate of German protel hotelsoftware GmbH, announces the hotel management's decision to switch to protel SPE.

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. Leaving a good impression and creating the memory of a wonderful stay is the most desirable and valuable advertisement for any hotel. German protel hotelsoftware GmbH is now introducing a web-based customer questionnaire tool, which provides hotels with a convenient way to find out more about their guests' preferences or choices.

The Host Users Group formed in 1989 to assist members in maximizing the utilization of the SMS|Host property management system from PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc. Distinguished as the only users group within the hospitality technology industry to be run by the users, for the users. Through HUG, members interact and share knowledge and ideas on the challenges and opportunities that they face every day in their hospitality business.

Why actually not - sell rooms with Twitter? With protel Room Tweet it is so easy to do! The Twitter feature is the latest enhancement of the property management system (PMS) by German protel hotelsoftware GmbH. protel Room Tweet retrieves current availabilities directly from the protel PMS and broadcasts the sale offer via Twitter - also posting a link to the hotel's protel Web Booking Engine: Potential guests can book right away.