Hotel Industry News - Technology

Video Interview with Pegasus’ COO Ric Leutwyler on What Hoteliers can do to Increase Booking Ratios. - More

EZYield.com, the originator of automated online distribution management solutions for the worldwide hospitality industry, has helped the world-famous Nickelodeon Suites Resort save time and labor by streamlining its channel management efforts, slashing the time spent on tedious data input and simplifying precision yield analytics, and allowing m... - More

Do you have a smartphone or plan to buy one in the next 90 days? If not you’re quickly becoming a minority. To accommodate the tremendous increase in users, manufacturers and providers are pumping out a dizzying array of smartphone options and hi-tech features to choose from. But, while the bevy of Blackberries, Palms, Droids and Motorolas ... - More

You’ve got your OTA offers out, your auction site offers, your email offers and now your Twitter and Facebook offers. Do you know what promotions are returning the best bang for your buck? Chances are if you are offering the same thing through all the different channels you aren’t targeting users enough and could be missing out on reve... - More

Lookout Inc., a mobile-phone security firm, scanned nearly 300,000 free applications for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and phones built around Google Inc.’s Android software. It found that many of them secretly pull sensitive data off users' phones and ship them off to third parties without notification. - More

E-Guide Services, Inc. (EGS) announced results of an independent Arbiton Inc. study of its innovative E-GuideTV service, an in-room hotel television channel guide. Results prove the Out-of-Home advertising medium to be both a valuable and popular amenity to hotel guests and an outstandingly effective medium for advertisers. - More

With one week remaining before the start of the 2010 Hotel Data Conference presented by Gaylord Hotels, STR reveals more in-depth looks at some of the sessions to be held during the two-day event at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel. The Hotel Data Conference is scheduled for August 4-5, 2010. - More

World's Leading Travel Magazine Showcases the World’s First Bookable App for Boutique Hotels - More

IQware’s Global Property Management System helps the Saunders Hotel Group make a successful transition after purchasing the Premiere Hotel and Suites in New Haven, Conn. - More

Sol Meliá, the third largest chain in Europe, and VFM Leonardo, the leader in online visual content distribution for hotels, today announced that they will be working together to strengthen the online visual presentation of Sol Meliá’s hotels through enhanced photo distribution and online merchandising. - More