STAR WARS. IMAX. 3D: SkyTouch Goes to the Movies!
December 21, 2015 IN A WORLD … where many corporations are cutting back or even skipping holiday events all together, SkyTouch Technology team members were treated to a surprise of epic proportions: Fresh from its national debut, a private screening of Star Wars “The Force Awakens” in glorious IMAX 3D [...]
SkyTouch Wins Vantage 2015 Vendor Commitment Award
On December 10, SkyTouch Technology was honored with the coveted Vantage 2015 International Educational Conference & Trade Show Vendor Commitment Award in Las Vegas, Nevada. Each year, the award recognizes one vendor that most embraces the Vantage family, excelling as a strategic partner through excellence in programs, products, and service [...]
Beyond the Cookie: Loyalty Programs for your Bottom Line
On one particular business trip, Bob stayed in four different cities in one week, all at various versions of a well-known hotel chain. Upon his first check-in, he was automatically handed a cookie “for being a loyal guest.” Bob felt special. But by the fourth check-in, the cookie bit was [...]
Part Two: Upgrading Hospitality with the Internet of Things
In Part Two of our series on the Internet of Things, we discuss the present and future state of connected technology in the hospitality industry. Catch up on Part 1 here. How will the Internet of Things (IoT) – that vast connection of objects, applications, communication and data analysis foreseen [...]
Welcoming the Internet of Things to Hotels
In this two-part series, we discuss the Internet of Things (IoT) – what it is, the trajectory it may follow and how it will impact the hospitality industry. In a nutshell, the Internet of Things is an encompassing term that refers to a future where ordinary things are embedded with [...]
SkyTouch Partners With Intellicheck Mobilisa’s Guest ID
Hotel companies can now boost operational performance while also enhancing the guest experience through our integration of leading real-time identity authentication and validation solution Intellicheck Mobilisa’s Guest ID™ into SkyTouch Hotel OS®, the most widely used cloud-based hotel operating system. The software integration aims to reduce fraud while expediting check-in, [...]
Come see SkyTouch at Booth#337 at HITEC 2015 in Austin
HITEC 2015, Austin Texas, June 15-18 - Come and see how we help hotel companies achieve growth and their most important strategic objectives with the SKYTOUCH HOTEL OS® A flexible and intuitive platform built to help hotel companies achieve growth, elevate operating performance, and improve the guest experience.
Hospitality and Payments Security: Save Room for EMV
There is as much fiction as fact when it comes to EMV, the much-discussed U.S. transition from magnetic stripe to chip payment cards. The most outstanding fact, undisputed amidst all the rhetoric, is that it will become reality in the U.S., perhaps as soon as the October 2015 liability-shift deadline [...]
SkyTouch Fuels Hotel Companies’ Strategic Objectives
Check out our article on CIO Review, which includes an interview with our very own Sr. Director of Enterprise Architecture and Research, Larry Gorman. HERE For a PDF copy: SkyTouch Technology Fuels Hotel Companies’ Strategic Objectives
What Legacy Will Your Hotel Management Platform Leave?
The world has become both bigger and smaller via emerging technologies and the data they produce. For hotels, bigger in that amassed and analyzed customer data can lead to new opportunities and partnerships both within and outside of core hospitality competencies, and smaller in that hotels can mine that data [...]
Enhancing the Hotel Guest Experience
In the age of information overload, how can hotels best determine what guests value and want? Is it a personalized experience they crave most? Luxurious amenities? The best value? The proper analysis of data holds the key to understanding and delivering on what guests really want from their hotel experience. [...]
Mobile Technology and the Guest Experience
Guests interacting with robot staff? Hotel apps that make dinner reservations and control room temperature? Hotel operating systems that drive revenue for the hotel companies? It’s clear that technology is disrupting the way hotels do business and engage with guests. Specifically, the rise of guest-facing mobile technology signals a win-win [...]
Hotels, OTAs, and the Battle to Win Guests
Are hotels and OTAs friends or foes? While they do rely on each other to compete in the hospitality marketspace, they’ve been waging an epic battle recently to win over guests. With both hotels and OTAs vying to control and evolve the guest experience, time will tell who will come [...]
How Hotels are Using Data to Achieve ROI
Recent findings from a Forbes Insights and Teradata data-driven marketing study cite that 45% of executives fully leverage data to measure ROI. The challenge for hotel enterprise marketers is to determine how to best use data and analytics to understand, target, and win over guests! What is data-driven marketing in [...]
Features to Enhance Operations and Guest Experience
More than 6,000 hotels worldwide are now able to operate even more efficiently, thanks to the newly released customer-inspired features. These new features have been added to the Hotel OS platform to help hotel companies worldwide maximize revenue; enhance operational performance and improve guest experience. The new features were seamlessly [...]