Shilo Inns, a mid-priced hotel chain operating 31 hotels predominantly on the West Coast, has partnered with SkyTouch Technology to install cloud-based SkyTouch Hotel OS. The SkyTouch Hotel OS will be implemented at corporate-owned locations as well as franchised locations, and many others are quickly switching to SkyTouch because of its easy-to-use platform, improved rate management and [...]
A property management system (PMS) is the heart and brains of a hotel. As technology improves, hotels often must re-assess their current technology to see if it stacks up to their needs and to the competition. A common example is switching from a premise-based PMS to a cloud-based system. But when looking for a new PMS, [...]
Todd Davis, Choice Hotels' chief information officer, who worked with Gorman to develop Choice Hotels' property-management system, said he has always seen a correlation between the management of single-family rentals, multifamily housing and hotels. He also heads SkyTouch Technology, a spinoff of Choice Hotels, which sells the platform to other hotel operators. Single-family rental companies are now interested [...]
SkyTouch CEO Todd Davis sat down with Hotel Management Magazine associate editor Elliot Mest at HITEC 2017 in Toronto. Watch the video here.
GreenTree Inn, the world’s 14th largest hotel brand globally, and SkyTouch Technology, have formed an agreement to use SkyTouch Hotel OS at GreenTree Inn hotels in the U.S. Read full article here.
SkyTouch Technology, along with Voila Hotel Rewards and Cobblestone Hotels have collaborated to refresh and relaunch the Cobblestone Rewards loyalty program. The new points-based loyalty program, powered by the Voila Hotel Rewards platform and network, replaces Cobblestone Hotels' previous 'punch-card' based guest-rewards strategy, and allows hotel guests to earn points and redeem them for roomnights, gift cards, charity donation and miles through many [...]
Choice’s tech team is currently working on a new distribution platform focused on mobile access that is slated to come out this year, Davis said, and noted that his role at the company has changed significantly over the 20-year journey from programmer to CTO to CIO. “I spend more time focused on what's coming now,” [...]
Inventory management is critical to overall hotel success. Too many hoteliers don’t understand the importance of maintaining distribution control over their coveted product—their hotel rooms. Instead, they willingly cede this control to others. Read full article here.
The property management system. Is it under-appreciated? Is it over-worked? Is it simply misunderstood? The PMS has become the true workhorse of hotels, pulling in and pushing out data from a myriad of places, and increasingly expected to do more on both enterprise and customer-facing levels. Despite this, 18% of hoteliers believe they lag competitors [...]
Both how we work and play is very different now than just a few short years ago, as nearly all aspects of our lives are morphing from a technological injection. For our sector, it’s especially challenging as the hotel industry has traditionally been behind the innovation curve. Read full article here.
