How often in the business world do we have the opportunity to receive honest feedback from others—feedback that might prompt us to make the necessary changes to improve our businesses? For the hotelier, guests, staff, and peers are often crucial to providing useful input that can point to where things are going well, and not so [...]
In today’s ultra-competitive hotel market, it has become more important than ever to get the help you need right when you need it. If something goes wrong, you need to know that you can get in touch with someone quickly. Questions arise from time to time, and you may have someone standing in front of [...]
Your hotel business runs non-stop on a 24/7, 365-day schedule. Round-the-clock operations often add a layer of complication to working in teams. Therefore, communication failures between the teams that provide coverage on different shifts can be problematic, and it can be common to run into problems between shifts. Hearing comments from your staff like “Well, we [...]
With tablet and smartphone use exploding in the past decade, tech smart consumers are no longer the exception, but have quickly become the rule in the hospitality market. In a similar fashion, Online Travel Agencies (OTAs), once dismissed by many hoteliers as merely a necessary annoyance, have matured to become the main and often customer-preferred [...]
Being in a business actually called hospitality, you are likely to feel that you are already very good at listening to your guests. But do you truly hear what they are saying? With front desks buzzing from reservations, phones ringing, check-ins, and chatter, what your customers are really asking for, what they really need may [...]
The subject of Customer Delight is often like the weather; to paraphrase Mark Twain: “Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it.” At SkyTouch Technology, we’re doing something about it. We started by using an outside-in approach. Rather than looking at things solely from our point of view, we decided instead to listen [...]
Housekeepers are always on the move in a hotel, and traditionally have long relied on pre-printed reports from their property management system (PMS) to help them keep track of which rooms to clean and what type of service to provide. The problem with these housekeeping reports is that they are often stale as soon as [...]
Pleasing today’s tech-savvy guests with meaningful mobility is a perfect opportunity to get in front of them in real-time. Learn how this kind of engagement can provide real value to them and to your business.
Today, we use our mobile phones and tablets to do our shopping, conduct our banking, stay connected with friends, keep up with current events, listen to music, and watch our favorite TV shows. We depend on mobile devices for so much in our personal lives, it’s hard to imagine life without them. Because of this, [...]
Since Apple first introduced the iPhone in 2007, the world has seen massive expansion in the use of smartphones and tablets, with an estimated four billion of these devices currently in use globally. They have become a huge part of our lives, and for many people, a sense of security, connection, and comfort. So it’s [...]
