Visual One is pleased to announce the signing of the contract to install the market leading integrated Visual One System at Lumley Castle and Coombe Abbey. Visual One is supplying Front Office (PMS), Sales and Catering, Point of Sale and Web Bookings to both historic properties.

MCLEAN, VA | SynXis announced today that the award-winning Magnolia Hotels has selected the SynXis reservation services and technology to manage their distribution to the GDSs, the internet and their own hotel and chain website (www.magnoliahotels.com). For the first time, all three properties will be consolidated onto one chain code (MG), which played an important factor in their partner selection process. SynXis has many years of experience in successfully managing private label chain codes and currently manages over a dozen. In addition to the proven channel management tools, Magnolia Hotels will benefit from the newly released SynXis Dashboard, which provides hotels with extensive revenue management tools and includes competitive rate shopping and extranet management capabilities.

CHICAGO | Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) today made public the charter and sponsoring members of a new workgroup aimed squarely at the Guest Room of the Future. The In-Room Technology Workgroup sponsored by Cisco Systems, Guest-Tek, LodgeNet Entertainment, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Microsoft Corp., Paradyne, and Quadriga Worldwide, was announced to HTNG members on September 15. In addition to the seven sponsors, applications from other hotel companies and vendors will be accepted through October 15, to round out a balanced workgroup with a maximum of 17 companies.

Doonbeg Golf Club, on the beautiful southwest coast of Ireland, is home to Greg Norman’s brilliant links course. Complementing the links will be a spectacular Lodge, member clubhouse and a collection of Oceanside suites.

IDeaS, the leading provider of hospitality revenue optimization solutions and one of the industry's fastest growing technology companies, has formalized a technology offering with Hotel Information Systems (HIS) to integrate epitome for Windows product suite with IDeaS Revenue Optimization Solution.

CHICAGO | Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) today announced the formation of the HTNG Property/Distribution Solution Workgroup. Sixteen leading hotel companies, vendors, and consultants, together with the OpenTravel™ Alliance (OTA), will work together to define and deliver technology solutions that will improve the interoperability of the key systems that manage distribution for hotels, including property management, central reservations, revenue management, customer relationship management, content management, external distribution channels, and intermediaries such as switches and representation companies.

Hotel Technology Next Generation is moving into high gear this month. Coming off the tangible successes of our first workgroup – which many of you were able to see firsthand at HITEC in Dallas – we have some new efforts that are shaping up to be real blockbusters.

MCLEAN, VA | SynXis, a leading provider of reservation services and technology for the hospitality industry, announced today that their newly unveiled Dashboard was selected by The Fitzpatrick Hotel Group to help manage and meet their revenue goals. The Fitzpatrick Hotel Group is a family-run business with fifty years and two generations of experience in managing first-rate hotels in Dublin, New York and Chicago. Dedicated to leading each market they are in, Fitzpatrick will use the SynXis Dashboard to ensure that they have the tools available to make quick decisions resulting in the highest yield.

Austria Trend Hotels & Resorts – Austria’s leading hotel group and a division of Österreichische Verkehrsbüro AG – has chosen protel hotelsoftware GmbH as its new software partner to equip the 25 Austria Trend Hotels & Resorts. The installation is a true Multi Property solution, which will be used by all the establishments in Austria Trend Hotels & Resorts Group, i.e. the 17 city hotels in Vienna, the 6 hotels in the provincial capitals of Salzburg, Linz, Graz and St. Pölten in addition to two resort hotels in Fieberbrunn and Kitzbühel.

CHICAGO | Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) announces the appointment of Douglas C. Rice as Executive Director, succeeding Dr. Matthew Dunn, who served as Acting Executive Director since early this year. This planned transition marks the continued growth and impact of HTNG on the hospitality technology sector. Dr. Dunn remains integrally involved in HTNG and will assume a formal advisory role.