Danish BeCause paves the way for sustainable hospitality with $2.5M seed funding boost
BeCause, a Copenhagen-headquartered startup, has secured a total of $2.5 million in seed funding, with a recent $600K investment from Curiosity VC…
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Danish BeCause paves the way for sustainable hospitality with $2.5M seed funding boost
BeCause, a Copenhagen-headquartered startup, has secured a total of $2.5 million in seed funding, with a recent $600K investment from Curiosity VC…
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Google Shifts Hotel Ads To AI-Powered Bidding Strategies
Google to phase out cookie-based Hotel Ad strategies, introduces AI-driven tROAS and expands Performance Max for travel…
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Tesla finds major hotel customer for charging in the USA
The US American hotel conglomerate Choice Hotels, which owns the Radisson, Cambria, Comfort, Country Inn & Suites, Quality Inn and other brands, has partnered with Tesla to install Tesla's Universal Wall Connector at its hotels…
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Cyber security and the hotel chain: preventing the unthinkable
Hotel chains continue to fall prey to debilitating – and costly – cyber-attacks…
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Tech is easing restaurants' labor needs, but there's an asterisk
Innovation seems to be slowing turnover more than eliminating jobs, at least for now…
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Rosewood CEO Sonia Cheng on AI’s potential within hospitality
Sonia Cheng, CEO of Rosewood Hotel Group, which manages hotels in more than 20 countries, reveals to CNBC's Tania Bryer where she thinks AI can be used within the hospitality space.
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Wyndham Simplifies Group Travel, Brings Instant Booking to 5,600+ U.S. Hotels
A win for travel planners and managers, real-time rates and availability go live across industry's largest portfolio of economy and midscale hotels…
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Telia Norway supplies infrastructure to support gaming stations at Quality Hotel Expo in Fornebu
Telia Norway said that it has supplied infrastructure to enable the Quality Hotel Expo in Fornebu on the outskirts of Oslo to equip some of its guest bedrooms with gaming room equipment that is as good or better than what visitors would have at…
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Could AI be the future of hospitality training?
Zeljana Babic's Xenios Academy blends neuroscience expertise with AI technology. Zeljana Babic is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Xenios Academy. The AI-driven platform focuses on education in hospitality training…
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Artificial Intelligence in hotel marketing: use cases and perspectives
Within the framework of FITUR, the international tourism fair that took place recently in Madrid, a round table discussion entitled “Artificial Intelligence in hotel marketing: real use cases” was co-organised by BEONx and Hotelverse…
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Expedia Plunges on CEO Departure - Stock slid 15% on the departure of CEO Peter Kern
Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern is taking a vacation, but will the rest of us be able to afford one? Kern will stay until May 1 and expressed confidence in his successor, Ariane Gorin…
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Improve the Guest Experience in Your Hotel with These IoT Solutions in 2024
Hotel owners and managers already go the extra mile for their guests by providing excellent customer service, luxurious bedding, and even room service. However, there’s potential for you to be doing much more…
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DUVE ACQUIRES EASYWAY, BOOSTING AI-DRIVEN GUEST EXPERIENCES
Guest experience platform Duve announced Monday the acquisition of hotel technology company Easyway in a move designed to boost artificial intelligence-driven guest experience management for hotels and vacation rentals worldwide. Terms of the deal…
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Choice Hotels Becomes First Hotel Company to Complete Total Data Center Migration to the Cloud
The all-in move to AWS cements Choice's technology leadership within the industry, and allows it to deliver cutting-edge services to franchisees. Today, Choice Hotels International, Inc…
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VDA Telkonet's Tech Report 2024 traces the direction of tomorrow's hotels towards the well-being of the entire hotel ecosystem and announces the pilot project applying neuroscientific monitoring to the hospitality sector…
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GUEST POST: THREE COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT HOTEL TECHNOLOGY
Peter Waters, executive vice president, hotel IT solutions of Amadeus, helps us bust the most-common myths told about hotel tech…
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Amadeus brings travel technology expertise to membership in the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance
Amadeus has joined the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance (the Alliance) to bring its travel expertise to the table in the quest to support a more prosperous and responsible hospitality sector…
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Hotel revenue managers are going to have more tools at their disposal this year, as they navigate the changes in the hotel industry and prepare for an influx of business and group guests…
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AI platform translates hotel guests’ speech into actionable data and insights
The adoption of Artificial Intelligence in both travel and hospitality isn’t particularly new – many tech platforms and service providers have been utilising AI behind-the-scenes for years now…
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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives
With over 1,250 establishments in 95 countries, Radisson Hotel Group is one of the world’s largest in the industry…
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How AI Turbocharges Attribute-Based Shopping, Enabling Hotels to Increase Revenue and Profitability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of hospitality technology heading into 2024, and in looking at specific tasks where it can be deployed, a very lucrative application is in attribute-based shopping (ABS)…
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AHLA and Hireology Form Partnership for Talent Technology
Hireology announced a new partnership with the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA). As part of this new partnership, AHLA has named Hireology its leadership partner for talent technology…
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Hotel tech: 4 predictions for hospitality in 2024
Cloud adoption, AI-innovations and a heightened focus on security are all set to shape back-of-house operations next year - In our latest guest post Alex Alt, EVP and general manager at Oracle Hospitality, shares four predictions for the hospitality…
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Cybercrooks book a stay in hotel email inboxes to trick staff into spilling credentials
Research highlights how major attacks like those exploiting Booking.com are executed - Cybercriminals are preying on the inherent helpfulness of hotel staff during the sector's busy holiday season…
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