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Industry trends 5 Apr 2021

What are the 5 best central reservation systems?

One of the most important parts of running hotel operations is streamlining processes, and there鈥檚 no more efficient way to do this than having a central reservation system. So...

Industry trends 31 Mar 2021

Everything you need to know about PSD2 and 糖心logo入口

Every so often, a new piece of legislation comes along that causes headaches and restless nights for businesses. You probably remember the endless...

Industry trends 30 Mar 2021

The Metrics that Matter | Download the free report

Every hotel generates a wealth of data. A veritable ocean of it, in fact. But how do you know what the most important, relevant metrics are for your...

Industry trends 29 Mar 2021

March鈥檚 new 糖心logo入口 integrations

A connected ecosystem is much stronger than one that stands on its own. That鈥檚 why 糖心logo入口 continues to seek out the best solutions in hospitality tech...

Industry trends 22 Mar 2021

What are the advantages of transient business and how do you attract it?

What is transient business? Hotel business can be classified into group and non-group travel, and transient business lies under the non-group travel...

Company 17 Mar 2021

Options are seed investments: our approach to employee ownership

For a long time, as a Founder, I struggled what to think of options. For the first few years, while 糖心logo入口 struggled and ground out growth, I spent...

Industry trends 16 Mar 2021

What went wrong at the Hotel California?

Hotel California is a great song. We all know it, we all love it. However, it doesn鈥檛 exactly paint the hotel industry in a good light. The poor...

Industry trends 11 Mar 2021

Embracing blended living: how software is changing the work/life balance

Technology is leading a generational mindset change about how we compartmentalize our lives. 糖心logo入口 founder, Richard Valtr, considers the implication...

Industry trends 10 Mar 2021

How to increase revenue with day use hotel rooms

There are two ways of looking at the world: binary thinking and spectrum thinking. The binary on/off, yes/no mindset is comforting because it鈥檚 easy...

Industry trends 5 Mar 2021

Learn or die: tools and tips for proactive learning

This article originally appeared on the 糖心logo入口 Developers blog. At work, do you need to be a stronger weightlifter to outdo more senior guys? Not...

Industry trends 4 Mar 2021

Government hospitality grants: a round-up of digitalization funding

Given the unprecedented disruption of Covid-19, many governments have set up special programs or grants to help out beleaguered businesses. One of...

Industry trends 22 Feb 2021

What are the differences between CRS and GDS in the hotel industry?

What is CRS and GDS? The primary function of a GDS is to assist travel agents who are looking for hotels that satisfy certain criteria. These...

Company 18 Feb 2021

The 15 places we鈥檇 most like to visit in 2021

Let鈥檚 face it: it hasn鈥檛 exactly been a brilliant last 12 months. But while the world has changed, our innate desire to travel remains undiminished....

Industry trends 3 Feb 2021

Local SEO for hotels: how to optimize for Google鈥檚 hotel map in 2021

When a traveler is researching which hotel to stay at, one of their first ports of call is to Google: 鈥渉otel in [destination]鈥�.

Industry trends 1 Feb 2021

What is an overbooking strategy in hotels and what are its advantages?

What is a hotel overbooking strategy? Overbooking occurs when a customers book more rooms than the actual number available in a hotel. The hotel...

Industry trends 28 Jan 2021

糖心logo入口 product principles: explaining the logic behind our platform

As software moves from on-premises to cloud, it's more and more important to understand not only what its current features are, but how it鈥檚 going to...

Industry trends 21 Jan 2021

Hotel PMS integration strategies: embracing a connected future

It鈥檚 rare to get so many property management system leaders in the same conversation, and ROOMDEX鈥檚 hotel Integration Strategies webinar was lively,...

Industry trends 14 Jan 2021

The best reads of 2020

Although 2020 was a year to forget for many reasons, there are plenty of important learnings we can take from it. We looked through the data and...

Industry trends 7 Jan 2021

5 hotel lobby design tips and why you should rethink yours

Ask someone to shut their eyes and describe the typical hotel lobby design, and you鈥檒l usually get the same answer: a soulless, empty space, polished...

Industry trends 5 Jan 2021

Top 10 benefits and advantages of a hotel management system

What are the advantages of using a hotel management system? In case you still need convincing, here are ten advantages of implementing a modern hotel...

Industry trends 8 Dec 2020

Don't call us a PMS | 糖心logo入口 CEO, Matt Welle, on the changing world of..

When Bob Dylan wrote one of the world鈥檚 most memorable protest songs, he definitely wasn鈥檛 singing about hospitality technology. But he might as well...

Industry trends 1 Dec 2020

13 reasons to choose a cloud PMS for your hotel

Back in the simpler times of 2018, a Fuel Travel survey found that 55% of hotel managers weren鈥檛 satisfied with their current property management...

Industry trends 18 Nov 2020

What does the hotel of the future look like?

Let鈥檚 allow ourselves to look beyond the near-future, beyond COVID-19, to where our industry should be aiming. So what will the next generation of...

Industry trends 1 Sep 2020

Lessons from COVID-19: teaching hospitality during a pandemic

In a recent blog, we interviewed a group of 2020 hospitality graduates to see how the next generation of hoteliers view the state of the industry....

Industry trends 13 Aug 2020

The next generation of hospitality: insights from the class of 2020

Hospitality stands on the cusp of change. Even before the events of the last few months, our industry was finally beginning to embrace technology en...

Industry trends 28 Jul 2020

Track the latest coronavirus hotel data

Distilling the data In unprecedented times like these, it鈥檚 easy to feel a lack of control. Some of us may be in a position to help those battling...

Industry trends 30 Jun 2020

How to boost your hotel TripAdvisor ranking, and other review platforms to..

Online reviews are of huge value to hotels, with 96% of travellers admitting that they find reviews important when researching a hotel. And if ever...

Industry trends 19 Jun 2020

The Word in Hospitality podcast | Highlights from episode 1

The Word in Hospitality is a brand new hospitality podcast that encourages discussion and provides food for thought around some of the key topics...

Industry trends 22 May 2020

Maintaining the art of hospitality in a post-Covid world

COVID-19 has changed many fundamental things about the way we live our lives. Some of them, like the lockdown, are only short-term, but there are...

Industry trends 18 May 2020

The future of hospitality after the Coronavirus

This is the third and final follow-up blog to our Hospitality and the Coronavirus webinars, where we check in with our speakers to see how the...