TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

CEO Tunde Kara , in an interview with TechCrunch, said Vendease plans to use the investment to deepen operations, consolidate its presence in eight cities across Nigeria and Ghana (the company recently expanded to the latter), move into new markets and build new products to increase customers’ efficiency. Vendease gets $3.2M

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Altexsoft

JULY 20, 2021

Hotels have been experiencing a surge of direct bookings during the pandemic. Yes, while the overall number of bookings dropped due to COVID-19, hotels’ brand.com websites became the third most popular booking channel , in some cases even surpassing Expedia traffic. Direct booking strategies for hotels. Why is that?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

One 2019 survey found that 88% of people prefer speaking to a live service agent instead of navigating an automated system. With the market for call center software estimated to be worth tens of billions, there’s a strong incentive to crack the code — or to come close, at least. PolyAI’s founders — Mrkši?,

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Today, the share of walk-ins in the hotel industry keeps reducing annually. At the time of global digitalization, 75 percent of all hotel bookings are made online. Among that, 40 percent of the reservations are made via Booking.com, 32 percent — via other aggregators, and 21 percent — through a hotel’s website.

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Altexsoft

JULY 17, 2019

When a hotel business grows, its technical capabilities expand, too. Or you keep your boutique hotel small and cozy, but don’t want to miss a chance and make your guest service better, using technologies. What is Hotel Property Management System? Structure of a hotel PMS. Central Reservation System (CRS).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And the reservation itself is still often recorded using old-school systems, like pen and paper. “Just like in the ’90s, if you wanted to book a hotel or travel somewhere, you’d have to call hotels individually. “Like the leaders before them in the hotel and vacation rental verticals, we believe the S?kr

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“I was in Costa Rica and talking about opportunities for women sitting on sidelines due to the pandemic and looking for interesting work. Travel agencies are a $100 billion market in the U.S. , The booking of travel without a system or knowledge is janky and hard.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Besides seeking to snag market share from incumbents such as Concur, Brex is also taking on startups such as Navan (formerly called TripActions) — which actually started its business focused on travel expense management before broadening its offering — and also Ramp, which itself expanded into travel last year.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Hotel business produces a plethora of data literally every moment. Let’s take a closer look at major data management processes — data collecting, storing, and analyzing — as applied to the hotel domain. Hotel data collection: what and where to look for. Important hotel data sets and overlaps between them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

On a recent winter morning in New Delhi, Rajan Anandan and Pieter Kemps were pacing on the floor of a five-star hotel, quizzing a group of over two dozen young startup founders about their goals. The combined market cap of top-five tech companies in the U.S. The combined market cap of top-five tech companies in the U.S.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 26, 2020

If you want to sell/advertise hotel rooms, you inevitably stumble over these three technical pitfalls: How do you find hotel room APIs and what kind of providers are out there? How do you find hotel content? How do you map hotel room inventory? How hotel distribution works. Bonus) APIs for hotels.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC that the airline canceled over 5,000 flights due to the outage, adding that the company’s IT organization had to manually reset 40,000 servers. million Windows-based devices , by Microsoft’s estimates. Delta was not the only company to suffer financial losses.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In one Hotel Hell episode, lodge guests had to search for a front desk employee by themselves. Eventually, a bartender checked them in with a pen and notebook…The property owners didn’t have an online booking system and were losing a significant amount of revenue they could have used for development. Distribution.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Wholesalers connect with suppliers’ Property Management Systems to send updates on who and when will occupy these rooms: A guest John Smith will occupy X room from A till B date. Which bed banks should you contact to better position yourself on chosen markets? Boutique hotels. Some organizations use both approaches. Apartments.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A solid revenue management system (RMS) serves as a trusted steering wheel, guiding in the right direction and making that journey smoother. With the right RMS in place, hotels and vacation rentals can optimize room pricing, enhance occupancy rates, and boost overall revenue. What is a revenue management system for hotels?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

TechCrunch would be mad to let me do product reviews of skincare products, so this article is not what this is — the products are fine, I’m sure — what I am excited about, however, is that the company is taking a stab at tackling the climate and environmental impact of the CPG industry.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 2, 2021

Today, a hotel concierge is the person whose job is to assist the guest with any request or problem — be it arranging a manicure, an urgent dry cleaning, or a pet walk. So, let’s explore the opportunities to improve customer satisfaction and other benefits concierge software can bring to your hotel. What is a virtual concierge?

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Altexsoft

JUNE 21, 2019

When Booking.coms and Expedias have begun cutting off chunks of sales from hotels, tour operators, and brick and mortar agencies, it became clear – tourists of today are eager to be technology-first. The provider must issue a ticket (in case of airlines) or send a booking confirmation (hotels). Receiving a confirmation.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This data shows that chatbot tools visualize the future of Facebook Messenger marketing and customer support. Chatbot growth can be seen in the online industry and just this year, Google said there’s about 1 billion Google Assistant being used in the market today. Create a Facebook ads targeting common hotel guests.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Several hotels around the world now use technology solutions to automate their check-in, in-room, and check-out experiences for visitors. COVID-19 has greatly popularized contactless technology due to the increasing awareness about possible risks that can be linked to physical contact and touch. Source: Intelity.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A hotel jam-packed with people isn’t always a profitable hotel. Hotels employ various revenue management techniques and strategies aimed at increasing the bottom line. Compared to airlines, revenue management in hotels evolves slowly. What is hotel revenue management? Demand forecasting. Yield management.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Tata Group embraces e-commerce with super app : The Indian conglomerate known for its myriad businesses, among them software and telecom, gathered all of its properties together under one big hug, er, “super app” called Tata Neu, which launched today to give the company some e-commerce heft with offerings like grocery, electronics and hotels.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Given how competitive the technology and associated talent market is, companies have to clearly map out their plans for business growth, ensuring they are as comprehensive, considered, and responsible as possible. Recent market volatility has added to the complexity of delivering high-quality products and services,” Derr says.

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Altexsoft

MAY 23, 2023

Revenue Per Available Room, or RevPAR, has emerged as a crucial key performance indicator (KPI) for assessing a hotel’s financial well-being and prosperity. This significant metric enables hotel owners to evaluate their property’s performance by considering both occupancy rates and average daily rates (ADR).

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Global Distribution Systems are responsible for providing booking websites with unified access to a massive inventory of flights, hotel rooms, car rental companies, cruises, and much more. The idea of a Global Distribution System first appeared due to the necessity to distribute air flight tickets. What is a GDS?

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 31, 2020

Airline industry made an impact on how we buy things today, and how those things are marketed. Just a couple of examples: electronic tickets were first developed for fare ticketing, while one of the first online booking systems was built by airline distribution company SABRE. Understanding the air travel market.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 15, 2021

This is a guest article by Carla Andre-Brown, content marketer from Mailbird. This was largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic uprooting the status quo for both international and domestic travel. This article will explain how email marketing software manages to produce winning campaigns for travel enterprises. Personalization.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Except that we are describing real-life situations caused by small failures in the computer system. If passengers are stranded at the airport due to IT disruptions, a passenger service system (PSS) is likely to be blamed for this. The first generation: legacy systems. Travel plans screwed up. Million-dollar deals crumbed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

markets gives us advantages that we would be foolish to waste.”. There are a few that stand out: Cloudsmith (devtools), LegitFit (scheduling), Continually (chatbots/marketing), and Automated Intelligence (data management). New developments are popping up all over the city, from student accommodation to hotels and nice apartments.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 27, 2023

As a hotel revenue manager, one of your key responsibilities is creating a pricing strategy tailored to the property and its market. Many hotels still rely on a fixed pricing strategy that uses a tiered pricing system based on room types. Corporate guests pay 20 percent less — $170 — and OTA discounts are still at $160.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Marketing programs and sales opportunities. That’s why travel hosts typically arrange marketing programs for travel agencies , which embrace training, courses, marketing materials and technologies to build a business. Also, small host agencies acquire fewer benefits from suppliers — due to a modest volume of sales.

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Altexsoft

MAY 26, 2021

In the hospitality industry, choosing the right metrics and carefully tracking them can help you as the hotelier or hotel manager to understand how your hotel is performing, compare it with your competitors, and possibly find the weak points and opportunities for improvement. Occupancy rate, ADR, and ALOS: basic operational metrics.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 30, 2022

Upselling and cross-selling provide hotel owners and managers with the ability to drive greater profit from the same guest by timely offering valuable services. This post aims at explaining the key hotel upselling and cross-selling strategies, ways to digitize them effectively, and examples of existing software serving that purpose.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 31, 2018

Undeniably, there’s still a market for good, old travel agents. To see where exactly a travel agency is positioned in the travel distribution flow, check out two handy infographics we created for airline management and hotel distribution. This includes hotel and flight bookings, transfers, activities, excursions, etc.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 27, 2021

However, there are still hotels that rely on pen and paper or Excel spreadsheets to assign rooms, maintain booking records, register guests, invoice them, and address their complaints. Some hotels go even further and implement self-service check-in and facial recognition features. How front desk software can benefit the hotel business.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2014

The NIST Information Technology Laboratory is forming a cross-cutting data science program focused on driving advancements in data science through system benchmarking and rigorous measurement science. Due to the technical nature of the symposium, no marketing will be permitted. Major forms of analytics employed in data science.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

As reported by Reuters : “ dLocal (DLO.O) , the Uruguayan fintech facing allegations of potential fraud from a short-seller, has applied for a UK regulatory license, the company’s chief executive told investors in a recent call reviewed by Reuters, amid claims it dodged rigorous regulatory oversight by relying on Maltese regulators.”.

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