Vendor Spotlight: MOP by Visual Matrix
MOP by Visual Matrix provide hotels and resorts with an integrated system that helps manage tasks like housekeeping, maintenance, preventative maintenance, room inspections, and front desk as well as providing guest texting and Alexa voice services in one easy to use mobile and desktop web application. This helps with improving [...]
An Exciting Offer from Shift 4
Shift 4 Payments and SkyTouch Technology have partnered to provide a scalable, all-in-one hospitality solution that enhances the guest experience by streamlining hotel operations and improving payment processing. Whether you operate independent hotels, franchise properties, or an entire hotel chain, you can save time and money by leveraging Shift 4 [...]
Tips, Tricks, and Hacks- Help Center
During the pandemic, SkyTouch began anticipating the return to business operations by creating the Help Center. The Help Center gives our customers the ability to address a variety of situations where the user may have forgotten how to complete a specific task in SkyTouch HOS. The Help Center offers guided [...]
Summer Onboarding Tips
As the summer travel season continues to ramp up, it’s likely that you’ll need to bring some new staff members up to speed on SkyTouch HOS. We’re here to help with some quick tips for bringing on new staff in a manner that efficient AND effective. Check out those quick [...]
What’s Trending in Hospitality
The hotel industry is in a state of constant change, though these days change feels like it's happening at an astounding rate. That's why at SkyTouch Technology they're looking to not only serve the needs of hoteliers today, but ensuring their system is flexible and adaptable to changes that have [...]
Why Guest Experience is so Important
Elevate Guest Experience with PMS According to a study by McKinsey, 70% of buying experiences are based on how the customer feels they are being treated. With knowing that more than half of the customers coming into your hotel or many of your hotel properties are influenced by their experience, [...]
What is CRM?
Customer Relationship Management (CRM): a technology system that helps manage all of your company's relationships and interactions with current and future customers. CRM systems can help hoteliers stay connected with their customers before, during and after their visit to the property. They can also provide innovative insights to help drive [...]
What is a Hotel PMS and why do I need one?
A Hotel Property Management System (PMS) is a crucial piece of technology that links hotel systems while seamlessly helping to manage hotel guests and a property's operations. A hotel PMS can be considered the heart of your hotel; without a current and up-to-date system, hoteliers can experience a downward spiral [...]
Smartphone Technology Is Changing The Hotel Business
Smartphones have revolutionized the ways we interact with each other and the ways we do business. The hospitality industry is no exception. Mobile technology has forced hoteliers to reinvent the way they connect with customers and how they manage day-to-day operations. Here are some of the top ways smartphones are [...]
Why The Importance of Personalization is Increasing
Personalized experiences are shaping the hospitality industry now more than ever before. Why is that? Because guest expectations have changed, and people are now seeking out an experience that's memorable and special that they can share with their friends and family. With 62% of online adults have chosen, recommended or [...]
What We Learned at HITEC 2019
It was a massively busy week last week as the tech side of the hotel industry assembled in Minneapolis for the latest edition of the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference, commonly known as HITEC. Over here at SkyTouch Technology, we had a great time educating hoteliers on the latest [...]
The Mobile Movement and the Hotel PMS
When considering a hotel-based property management system, remember this rule: mobility equals freedom. Freedom for owners, freedom for operators, and even freedom for housekeepers and bookkeepers. That's because today's modern, cloud-based PMS leverages the latest technology that eliminates the need for premise-based systems by shifting everything to the internet. And [...]
Revenue Management ‘During Emergencies’
With a series of massive tornado's and thunderstorms affecting many areas of the country, it is a grim reminder that disaster can strike at anytime and anywhere. From the east coast, to the west coast and everywhere in between, hoteliers need to be prepared for storms and how to properly [...]
3 Tips to Improve Hotel Guest Experience
Memorial Day weekend is what many consider the unofficial start of the summer season. As this weekend quickly approaches, it's important for hoteliers to prepare for a busy travel season ahead. In order to be ready for an influx of visitors this summer, hoteliers should focus on creating a seamless [...]
4 Ways to Help Boost your Brand with Hotel PMS Guest Profiles
When you're out for the evening and run into a friend or acquaintance, you have certain expectations. You would expect them to recognize you, remember your name, and interact with you based upon information they have gathered about you during previous interactions such as your family or friends' names and [...]