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IBM?(NYSE:IBM)?and Denihan Hospitality Group, a nationally recognized owner and operator of boutique hotels across the U.S., today announced that they are collaborating on a Big Data project by applying advanced analytics technologies to enhance strategic planning.? This impacts multiple aspects of the business, from improving the
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1RIYADH?? The online travel industry in Saudi Arabia is developing at a rapid rate with online bookings expected to exceed $1.9 billion in 2014, according to Travelport co-sponsored study titled ?Assessing the Online Travel Opportunity: The Middle East?. The study, carried out by global travel market research company
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1Seems the mobile traveler has made a big impression on hotels, so much so that hotels are investing more in a mobile-optimized site. Eighty-eight percent of hotel brands feature a mobile-optimized site and 75 percent of hotels have invested in brand-specific apps or capitalize on parent
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1Best Western CEO David Kong is betting on high-quality service and smart data strategies to help the hotel group get over a rather large branding bump. Best Western is nowhere near one of the hottest hotel brands today, but that hasn?t stopped it from becoming one the largest
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ORLANDO ? According to the newly-released?MMGY lobal/Harrison Group 2013 Portrait of Digital Travelers?a nationally epresentative survey of 1,258 U.S. households who are active sers of digital devices, the use of both smartphones and ablets has increased so rapidly since 2011 that it has pawned a
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The number of worldwide tourists hit one billion last year, according to Elizabeth Becker, author Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism. “The travel and tourism industry,” she said, “is poised to become the biggest business sector in the world”. Silicon Valley, naturally, is taking notice. And in the
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?When there are fires, tsunamis or storms like Sandy, hotels are used as a base because people consider them a safe place to be? They tend to be a backup for the community when people have no other place to go? stated David Jerome, senior VP of corporate social responsibility
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Patrick Wassel, Head of Digital Strategy, Faktor 3 AG, a firm specializing in online strategy, at ITB Berlin 2013 brought experts together to discuss the effectiveness of social media as a rating and feedback platform, in the travel industry. His pretext summarizing social media through an informationsearching traveler?s eyes:
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Google predicts that US hotel searches will be up 24% in 2013 overall, but that includes a 68% uptick in searches from mobile devices against a 4% decrease in desktop queries. Searches from tablets, in particular, were expected to increase by 180%. Mobile traffic is becoming increasingly significant for the
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Columbia, MD?? June 18, 2013?MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, continues to expand its interactive marketing presence with the recent launch of the Delta Hotels and Resorts? website.? The new website provides seamless integration to the MICROS
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May 28, 2013, Bangkok:??Marriott International signed an official agreement to commence working with leading UK hospitality guest services developer iRiS Software Systems. In a ceremony that took place at Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong hotel in Bangkok, Marriott International?s Regional VP Information Resources, Asia Pacific (Martin Bookallil) signed a formal
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Manila, Philippines?- May 15, 2013?MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce Bloomberry Resorts and Hotels Inc. the first integrated resort in Entertainment City, Manila, has selected MICROS OPERA Property Management, MICROS OPERA Materials Control,