Be warned, there’s a new sheriff in town: Data integration. Without it and its like-minded cousin technology interoperability – the notion that computer systems can seamlessly connect and communicate with one another -- maximizing a hotel’s profitability in the modern era is near impossible, archaic and frustrating. Before cloud-computing became a reality, interoperability was [...]
Things are Changing Not only are the way hotels managed changing, but so is its workforce. These days millennials rule, and they expect the systems they utilize to match the technologies they’re familiar with. Did you know? 35% of people working in America are millennials? They’re now the largest generation in the U.S. labor [...]
The future is now. Well, at least for hoteliers fully embracing cloud-based solutions. Savvy business operators realize a hotel operations platform powered by cloud-computing is fueling the hotel industry to increased efficiency, more satisfied employees and heightened profitability. Sorry legacy systems, but a new breed of hotel property management systems (PMS) is transforming hotels in [...]
Popular Podcasting Podcasting has hit the mainstream, and in the hospitality industry it’s quickly become the way people love to learn while working out, walking the family dog, or heading to or from work. SkyTouch Technology, along with other hospitality tech partners, recently hosted an evening dedicated to this exciting medium. Held at The [...]
Millennials are set to be the largest active adult generation in 2019, surpassing Baby Boomers, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. So, what does this mean for the hotel industry and its technology and why should we care? Technologically Savvy Millennial hoteliers have reached the age where they are taking over hotel ownership. Parents are passing [...]
The hotel industry is often up against it when it comes to room rate management. There is not only revenue per available room (RevPAR) to think about, profits and the bottom line, but also about how to increase RevPAR and somehow attract and please guests at the same time, season by season, even day by [...]
The benefits of property management systems are endless, especially in the hectic world of the hospitality industry. When you factor in that travelers visit up to 38 websites before even making a booking, you know that the benefits of modern hotel management software are essential. The future of the hotel industry depends on your [...]
Welcome to The Cloud. It’s an entirely new way of thinking about PMS software for hotels since this technology sets the stage for reinventing every aspect of the hotel management experience. OK, it’s not actually new, it just seems new. Cloud computing may be a relatively new entrant into the hospitality technology space, yet [...]
Call it the accidental boss. Born at the dawn of the computer age to digitize check-ins and calculate guest expenditures, the hotel property management system (PMS) started in earnest. In fact, it was hardly a PMS at all. These early systems were more akin to a series of not quite related Excel spreadsheets called into [...]
Based in Neenah, Wisconsin, Cobblestone Hotels is a premiere upper-midscale brand with currently over 140 hotels open, under construction or in development across 18 different states in the United States. Founded in 2008, Cobblestone was a small brand and couldn’t originally envision the success they achieved in ten years. That success came from finding [...]
