Hospitality CIOs Are Embracing the SaaS Model
Hospitality CIOs are embracing the cloud and the preferred Software-as-a-Service (Saas) model. This forward-thinking mindset is a GOOD thing for the hospitality industry! However, SkyTouch Technology and other best-of-breed vendors share the following advice with CIOs: leave the technology to vendors! Today’s dedicated vendors have spent at least a decade [...]
Industry News Flash: Amazon Enters the Hotel Distribution Arena
Industry News Flash: Amazon Enters the Hotel Distribution Arena One of the biggest industry disruptions in 2015 could potentially be the emergence of e-commerce giant Amazon as a hotel booking and distribution player. With Expedia, Priceline and other OTA powerhouses currently dominating the distribution landscape, analysts are expecting Amazon to [...]
What Hospitality CIOs are Saying… and Why Stakeholders are Listening!
What Hospitality CIOs are Saying… and Why Stakeholders are Listening! With technology now considered a “front-end” asset, hospitality CIOs are finding themselves thrust further into the spotlight. After all, they represent the link between technology and business, imparting their IT knowledge upon stakeholders to help their properties maintain a competitive [...]
Use Your Hotel PMS to Compete Globally
Use Your Hotel PMS to Compete Globally Connecting guests with hotels used to be all about catchy advertising campaigns and splashy marketing promotions. In today’s competitive, mobile-drive hospitality marketplace, hotels need to ensure that their online presence helps drive bookings, both locally and on an international scale. If travelers can’t [...]
4 Steps to Attract Hotel Guests Seeking the Great Outdoors
Outdoor recreation can be a big breath of fresh air for hoteliers, bringing in $646 in total consumer spending (with 80% allotted toward travel and lodging). Are you making an effort to market to this significant segment of guests? Recognize that the great outdoors can bring potential guests (and dollars!) [...]
Three Hotel Pricing Myths Debunked
When it comes to setting competitive hotel rates, industry experts caution it’s best NOT to follow the crowd. Contrary to popular belief and practice, setting pricing based solely on analysis of competitor pricing, or “comp sets,” can actually lead to a reduction in hotel revenue. SkyTouch Technology encourages hoteliers to [...]
Drive RevPAR Growth With the Right Cloud Hotel PMS
Leading research group STR’s Q3 findings indicate great news for hoteliers in the area of RevPAR (revenue per available room) growth, revealing an impressive 9.2% increase. The right cloud hotel PMS can play a significant role in helping hotels of all types achieve RevPAR growth. SkyTouch Technology recommends that hotels [...]
Top Hospitality Meeting & Event Trends for 2015
Top Hospitality Meeting & Event Trends for 2015 What are the key hotel meeting and events trends, demands, and needs that will be hot in 2015? SkyTouch Technology shares a menu of predictions to help your hotel keep profitability and innovation in mind when planning meetings and events in the [...]
Top 5 Priorities for Hospitality CIOs in 2015
What will top the to-do lists of hospitality CIOs in the coming new year? SkyTouch Technology anticipates that CIOs will keep the following 5 priorities top-of-mind in order to gear up for a successful 2015. Read on… and comment below to share your own predictions: Cloud technologies. CIOs recognize that [...]
Hotel Sales and Catering Software Can Drive Revenue
Forward-thinking hotel managers understand that revenue comes from a variety of sources and not from room sales alone. One of these viable sources is the hotel sales and catering function, which is garnering the attention of hoteliers as a vehicle that can potentially boost overall profits by drawing guests and [...]
How to Make Your Hotel Festive for Holiday Guests
Millions of travelers opt to leave behind the stress of holiday entertaining in favor of holiday travel. Taking their revelry on the road means less prep, clean up and stress on the home front and the promise of creating new holiday traditions. With this is mind, SkyTouch Technology shares the [...]
Top Ways Hotels Can Engage and Motivate Employees
Employee engagement should be at the heart of any organization, but it should especially be embedded within a hotel’s cultural DNA. No matter the size of your property or staff, taking care of your team’s well being is essential to helping them better service your guests. A strong level of [...]
Hotels Can Reduce Clutter & Improve Efficiency with Mobile Housekeeping Management
Imagine managing housekeeping functions with a simple click instead of a clunky clipboard. Hotels who migrate their property management systems to a cloud-based hotel PMS like the SkyTouch Hotel OS® system gain the advantage of making housekeeping, and a plethora of other daily hotel operations functions, easier, more efficient, and [...]
Is Your Hotel “Holiday Rush” Ready?
Tis the season for holiday travel and this year, millions of travelers will be opt for a hotel stay in lieu of being “home for the holidays.” With this in mind, what can hotels do to get ready for the holiday rush? SkyTouch Technology has compiled the following checklist to [...]
Always Make Room for Your Guest With the Right Hotel PMS
Deciding which hotel rooms are allocated to guests upon check-in can be a delicate and demanding juggling act. After all, the hotel’s primary job is to ensure complete satisfaction, regardless of varying guest demands and outside influences. Yet with the right cloud-based hotel PMS software at their disposal, hotel staff [...]