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This West Point grad started a booking system for restaurants, and VCs just funded it

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Indeed, he says, the idea for his startup — Perfect Venue — largely owes to the time in between deployments, when Hutchison found himself organizing social events for his unit — and frustrated by the process. “It

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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

Altexsoft

In April 2020, the hotel occupancy in the US dropped to its lowest level ever — the bewildering 24.5 The annual average was roughly 44 percent, which means that more than half of hotel rooms were empty during the whole year. This means a hotel is charged every time the ad is clicked and redirection occurs.

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Travel app S?kr scores $2.25 million to bring campsite inventory into the digital age

TechCrunch

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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Direct Booking Success: How Hilton, Marriott, La Quinta, and More Hotels Boost Direct Sales

Altexsoft

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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Central Reservation System for Hotels: CRS Functionality and Software Explained

Altexsoft

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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Hotel Data Management: Solutions and Practices to Turn Information into a Valuable Asset

Altexsoft

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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Why focusing on holistic care helped Kindbody triple its revenue in 2021

TechCrunch

Over the last decade, our lives have changed exponentially due to the easy access to information via social media platforms, and the COVID-19 pandemic only added a feeling of perpetual uncertainty. It’s a 100% reactionary system. And in healthcare, of course, your customer is the patient.”. Image Credits: Kindbody. “It’s