High Speed Internet Access
...what are the drums telling you? One of the things that drives many –if not most- hoteliers crazy is the incessant, pounding, punishing...


Globalize your PMS
By localizing... In a previous article, we explored what it takes to create and maintain public-facing websites for a global audience of...


The Urge to Merge
There are numerous reasons why these transactions occur... On December 18th, 2013, Amadeus announced that they had reached an...


Going Global … Locally!
"...the core element of localization is of course language" Most readers of this article are familiar with the concepts developed in...


"We Know What You Said!"
...we are listening closely... everywhere! Broadly speaking, a hotel’s departed guest falls into one of three sentiment classes;...


It's all About the Relationships
...GDS providers once controlled over 80% of all air tickets. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Global Distribution Systems (GDS) were the...


Musical Chairs
The music stopped... Let the music continue. January 28, 2013 was when the music stopped for LodgeNet Interactive, at least as we knew...


"We Know What You Want!"
...no really, we do... you told us! In the previous “We Know Why You Stay!” article we focused on repointing our thinking toward the...


The Privacy Dilemma
Hotel guests explicitly expect that innkeepers will respect and protect their privacy as part of the guest-innkeeper relationship… There...


“We Know Why You Stay!”
...or do we? It would be foolhardy for hoteliers to assume all travellers are fixated on the lowest published room rate. One of the most...


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