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The aloft Montreal Airport in Dorval, Quebec installed Sentinel Advanced (41) digital in-room safes from Elsafe in its 136 guestroomsIn addition, Timelox...
How to Turn Your ATM Into a Promotional Tool
Utilizing your ATM screen to advertise and promote your amenities (restaurants, spas, fitness centers, business centers, rewards programs, WiFi, etc.)...
Reduced Keystrokes Increase Face Time
Marriott International, Inc. is eliminating redundant questions and as many keystrokes as possible when guests check in at any of its extended stay and...
Tech Bytes
Newmarket International, Inc., a sales and catering-solutions company in Portsmouth, NH, is moving into a new LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental...
Convergence, Refinement Are the Buzz
If you attended this year's Hospitality International Technology Exposition and Conference in search of trends, you came to the right place. ...
Done Deals
A lot of vendor-hotel alliances are struck or announced each year at HITEC....
Tech Upgrade for Grande Dame
Combining the classic with the contemporary is the idea at The Roosevelt Hotel, a midtown Manhattan landmark. Known as the grande dame of Madison Avenue...
Tech Bytes
JHM Hotels selected MTech to provide the Greenville, SC company's 30 properties with the ASP-based PMWorks solutionBeverage Tracker, the RFID-based solution...
BUSINESS CENTERS COME OUT OF THE CLOSET
Remember when meeting planners requested little more than a screen and overhead projector as parts of their audio/visual requirements? As a former event...
Penfield's Provides Specialized Solutions for Hotels
Penfield's Signature Business Center is a sophisticated, diverse and absolutely secure hotel solution with its own, unique DNA. It creates a hub for all...
Give Kids The World Partners With Lodging Technology
Give Kids The World Village is a 70-acre, non-profit resort in Central Florida that provides accommodations at its whimsical Village, donated attractions...
The Plaza Goes High Tech
New York City's Plaza Hotel, a legendary property in a city full of legendary hotels, will soon re-emerge as a super-luxury condominium and hotel complex...
New Help for Old Buildings
Older properties can have charm, history and ambience. But one thing they often lack is a cable- and Wi-Fi-friendly infrastructure. As one exasperated...
Working from the Same Page
Stephen J. Gordon views himself as a middleman. As Loews Hotels' first director of website management, the marketing and entrepreneurship specialist must...
Power Unplugged
Wireless high-speed Internet access is becoming fairly commonplace in hotels. But wireless electrical power for the devices so many travelers bring with...
Get Ready For the Web 2.0 Guest
HITEC, the annual gathering of hotel tech geeks and tech shoppers, is rarely a hotbed of innovation. This year was no exception, save for a few key product...
Locking Down Loyalty
The future of loyalty programs may lie in the hotel room door. That was the suggestion at the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference...
HITEC Exhibitor Locator
Lodging Hospitality's HITEC Exhibitor Locator Are you headed to Orlando for this month's HITEC? If so, be sure to take this pull-out section to learn...
Tech Directory
Agilysys, Inc.11545 Wills RoadAlpharetta, GA 30004800-241-8768 Fax 770-462-3241www.agilysys.com agilysyshospitality@agilysys.comSee ad on page 63 AltiusPAR5950...
Why HITEC Matters
It's a truism: If you're a technology vendor or buyer, you should attend the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference, the annual lodging...
SIAMESE DISCIPLINES
Hotel technology and hotel operations are management disciplines more joined at the hip today than ever before. Hospitality technology enables operations...
Tech Bytes
Wayport will open an office in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, shifting 45 employees from its Austin base this summerWorkflowOne will provide uniform,...
SETTING THE GEEK HOTEL STANDARD
Hotelchatter.com, one of the more witty of the websites dispensing opinions about the lodging field, has discovered the ultimate geek hotel. Hotelchatter...
Tech Bytes
A group of private investors bought InnLink LLC from ShoLodge in a deal designed to enhance InnLink's management and portfolio of hospitality voice and...
The Technology Conundrum
Technology is a fickle beast, at times empowering but also often frustrating. Particularly in the hotel business, technology isn't a cure-all, the answer...
