Intelity's Interactive Customer Experience(ICE), an innovative guest service solution and back-end monitoring system, has launched its latest phase of interactive development with ICE Mobile. Now featuring full smartphone capabilities, ICE Mobile offers all the integral components of ICE as an

Brannen, an international firm recognized by the Boston Society of Architects as gifted in sustainable design, and New York-based design team Bentel & Bentel, recipient of the American Institute for Architects Award for Interior Design (2007) and the James Beard

One of the hospitality industry's most influential champions, who has raised the profile of the profession in the UK to unprecedented levels in recent years, is to be the keynote speaker at the 4th Annual BAHA (British Association of Hospitality

EZYield.com, the originator of automated online channel management solutions for the worldwide hospitality industry, today announced the launch of RoomRez, a feature-rich, flexible and functional hotel web booking engine that transforms a hotel's website into a fully transactional and secure

The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) announces the dates of its 2010 Affordable Meetings® Conference & Expositions and Event Technology Expo™ (ETE) at Affordable Meetings® National. This highly acclaimed event series attracts more than 3,000 motivated planners from

he U.S. online leisure/unmanaged business travel market is significantly outperforming every other distribution channel in 2009, according to PhoCusWright's U.S. Online Travel Overview Ninth Edition. Amid a severe economic downturn, U.S. online leisure/unmanaged business bookings will decline 7% while the

Hotel human resource directors regularly evaluate questions of competency, casting wide influence on decisions concerning the hiring or continuing employment of fellow employees. But how do we evaluate HR's competency? What factors should we be considering? A basic competency model

Duane Vinson, VP at Smith Travel Research presented this data to attendees of the U.S. Travel Association Marketing Outlook Forum in Little Rock, Arkansas.

During the first of my carefree college years, my freshman dormmate, Kyle, left our room for only three reasons: 1. to occasionally go to class; 2. to occasionally visit the dining hall on the off nights he didn't order food;

While Expedia executives have been tight-lipped about the company's mid-October decision to take most Choice Hotels International properties off of its Expedia.com and Hotels.com Web sites because of an expired contract, president and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and CFO Michael Adler

London hoteliers experienced in September an increase in monthly Revenue per Available Room (RevPAR) for the first time since August 2008, according to the latest HotStats survey by industry experts TRI Hospitality Consulting. Meanwhile, hotels in Budapest, Munich and Prague

A discussion on the existing lodging demand fundamentals and outlook for peripheral New York City hotel markets. The article also discusses why these areas may present good investment opportunities for hotel investors. Long Island City - and for that matter

When it comes to profits, the benefits of rate discounting for hotels are illusory, and the negative effects are both immediate and far-reaching. One of the most important decisions facing hotel managers in an economic drought is determining room rates

By: Cristina Balekjian and Saurabh Chawla. This market snapshot is the fourth in a series of articles that HVS is producing every month with STR Global data for a number of key markets. Our analysis for this market is based

MSI (Multi-Systems, Inc.), a hospitality technology solutions provider, with a focus on property management, sales & catering, point of sale, business intelligence and central corporate services, announces an agreement with eRevMax, to provide competitive rate shopping through RateTiger into its

The U.S. hotel industry posted declines in all three key performance measurements during the week of 18-24 October 2009, according to data from STR. In year-over-year measurements, the industry's occupancy fell 6.3 percent to end the week at 59.0 percent.

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International hotels around 1900 were filled with inventions lavishly described in their promotional literature. Guests were assured that the air they breathed was the freshest possible, thanks to novel ventilating systems. Doors closed quietly on nonslamming hinges. Services were provided

NAES (North American Energy Services) Corporate Travel announced they have chosen GDSX's COMPLEAT Express for their mid-office solution. COMPLEAT Express is the newest offering from GDSX, tailored specifically for growing agencies and corporate travel departments. Rob Froman, Travel Manager at