Here’s the scenario: Imagine you run a lodging business and the news just dropped. Taylor Swift is coming to town! A surge of Swifties are impending. Your competitors are already upping their nightly rates. You’ve got roughly half an hour to decide what average daily rate ought to be for your soon-to-be-sold-out room inventory. Your average revenue management platform can make an algorithmic guess on what you ought to charge, based upon historical data plus whatever information other users on the platform chose to disclose. Is it a crime to click that tab?

Sabre Hospitality, a division of Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading technology provider that powers the global travel industry, today announced a multi-year renewal with Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, following the hotel franchisor's highly successful adoption of SynXis Property Hub, Sabre Hospitality's property management system (PMS). With seamless integration to SynXis Central Reservation System as a single source of truth, SynXis Property Hub increases operational efficiency by reducing the time to execute routine tasks and allows hoteliers to access their property from anywhere through cloud-native technology.

In the most recent episode of the Disruption Interruption Podcast, host Karla Jo Helms and Russ Stanziale, Chief Sales and Growth Officer of IDeaS Revenue Solutions, discuss the future of revenue management in hospitality, highlighting the transformative impact of emerging technologies and the importance of authentic communication. Stanziale underscores IDeaS Revenue Solutions' role in revolutionizing revenue management globally stressing the importance of innovation and collaboration in navigating the evolving landscape of the hospitality industry.

Hospitality management platform Cloudbeds has found travellers were booking accommodation further in advance in 2023 across all regions, except in North America. The findings, revealed in Cloudbeds’ 2024 ‘State of Independent Lodging Report’, indicate that the average booking window – i.e. the number of days prior to arrival when travellers reserve a room – increased relative to the previous three years in Europe, LATAM and the Asia-Pacific region.

Vingcard, hospitality’s leading provider of security access solutions and other advanced technologies, has announced a successful upgrade of its Vingcard Classic door locks at Radisson Blu Sobieski in Warsaw, Poland. An upscale property situated within the heart of Warsaw’s business district, Radisson Blu Sobieski by upgrading to Vingcard Classic RFID which will be enabled with Mobile Access, can provide its guests with the ideal combination of enhanced security and instant guestroom entry convenience.

Demand for travel to destinations across the Americas is on the rise, a new report released today by Amadeus in collaboration with UN Tourism shows.

In today’s digital age, a user-centered hotel website plays a crucial role in attracting and converting potential guests into bookings. With travelers increasingly relying on the internet to research and book accommodations, having a website that prioritizes user experience and meets their needs is of utmost importance.

InnSpire, the leading provider of innovative hospitality technology solutions that help drive seamless, world-class guest experiences for some of the world’s most iconic hotels and brands, has announced that its advanced IPTV, InnSmart and InnCast guestroom entertainment solutions have been successfully deployed at one of the world’s most exclusive private members clubs located in New York City. The InnSpire solutions were implemented in the property’s luxury suites in October 2023, as part of a technology upgrade designed to cater to the evolving needs of the club’s discerning tech-savvy members.

Shiji, the global hospitality technology innovator, is pleased to announce that Ohai Resorts has chosen Shiji's Infrasys Cloud POS solution to enhance its innovative outdoor living concept, which is highly focused on sustainability and the motivations of local tourism. Infrasys is already live at Ohai Nazaré and will be deployed as the brand introduces its new concept in Peniche, Conil, Marbella, and Gandia. Designed for enterprise-level hotel groups with multiple properties, Infrasys offers a scalable and guest-centric platform, making it the perfect choice to power Ohai's growth.

As renowned author Maya Angelou once said, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” This sentiment is at the core of what most hoteliers strive to achieve for guests during their stays, with a keen focus on guest satisfaction remaining an essential element of any successful property’s operations. However, with technology’s growing role in hospitality optimization, the companies providing systems and solutions to hotel organizations may not always share the same mindset. Although artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are continuing to enhance the speed and efficiency of many hotel processes, customer service has often suffered, and personal interactions are increasingly hard to come by. Especially in an industry grounded in hospitality and personalization, this approach seems counterintuitive.