Technology

While demand for events and conferences continues to skyrocket, hoteliers should remain mindful that not all is the same as it was pre COVID-19.
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Hotel guests will increasingly be looking for their chosen hotels to provide wellness amenities baked into the nightly rate and as add-on experiences.
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We are all familiar with ‘buyer’s remorse’ – but what about a buyer’s hesitation? The moment a consumer stares at their digital shopping cart, consumed with quiet contemplation before making the final decision to purchase…
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Having a variety of milks, personalized coffee experiences and locally sourced coffees and teas, as well as innovative breakfast cocktails, are more important than ever for the food and beverage operations of hotels…
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Love's Travel Stops in Williams, California, debuts a Jamba by Blendid Robotic Smoothie Kiosk.
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In our customer service workshops, we do an exercise in which we ask participants what their favorite companies are to do business with and why. We almost always get Amazon as an answer. One of its success traits is communication…
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Cloud migration, tech lounges, chatbots and robots are all technologies with great potential: both to streamline and drive better service, and to grant hackers access to your brand’s technology stack.
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Hotel trends come and go, but one thing that always seems to endure, in one form or another, is breakfast.
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What hotels don’t promote a good night’s sleep nowadays? While the offerings have gone from the erstwhile novel introduction of Westin’s Heavenly Beds to today’s perfunctory pillow concierge, hotels have yet to fully tap this well…
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Key performance indicators, better known as KPIs, are touchstones used to measure progress toward the desired outcome.
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There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to verification and authentication issues, but businesses can improve the lives of their customers and employees through the use of passive biometric technology.
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In 2015, Japan opened the world’s first all-robot-run hotel, and called it Henn na (or “Strange”) Hotel. The machine menagerie had a short run before management decided to change up its strategy in 2019, and replaced half the staff with humans…
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Ever thought about how you could make your hotel contact center work better for you? The hotel contact center plays a key role in converting first-time guests into regular guests and encouraging repeat business from existing patrons…
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For three-and-a-half years, Grant Romundt – co-founder of Ocean Builders – lived in a floating home in Toronto. 
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Innovative grab-and-go programs are not only popular but profitable. However, there are tricks to make it successful and multiple F&B leaders chimed in with their advice and experiences.
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The metaverse can be defined as a set of virtual shared spaces that are indexed in the real world and accessible via 3D interaction…
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Hotels are working within a world where change is at a pace never before experienced…
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QR codes may resemble little boxes of pixelated TV fuzz, but they’re actually high-tech tools that can help streamline your business practices and potentially increase sales.
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We’ve all experienced it. We’ve called the customer support line, and a pre-recorded message answers stating, “Press one for this, two for that, etc., etc. Well, it happened to me again – the third time this week – and this is how it went down…
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Packaging is awesome for hotels; the bed and breakfast (B&B) package is fantastic for both increased revenues and guest satisfaction where, typically, the more a guest uses a hotel’s amenities the happier they are with the onsite experience…
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No employee should be treated poorly by customers and I feel bad for the people who work at the airport luggage office.
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For a long time, hotels have been educated on the benefits of personalized offers. Algorithms can not only can personalize offers but can also pricing.
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After a two-year hiatus, travel is back in full swing - and so are the hackers, looking to take advantage of your brand reputation and hack your customer accounts.
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Vending machines are basically small-scale F&B kiosks that replace the need for a cashier or any other form of staffing besides the restocking and maintenance. Can hotels be the same?
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