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How Hospitality Hiring Trends Can Improve Your Hotel Experience

Smart Meetings

It’s no secret that the hospitality industry has been understaffed since the beginning of the pandemic. The recent surge in “revenge travel” has been met with burnt out staff and slow service. Travel restrictions are being lifted around the world , drawing in even more tourists from abroad and more professionals to events.

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The Future of Business Travel: Supersonic Flights, Computerized Chauffeurs, and Beyond

Business Traveler USA

Thanks to new advances in artificial intelligence, the future of transportation will be increasingly automated and sustainable, per Euromonitor’s Future of Travel 2040 report. Here’s a peek at what tomorrow’s domestic and international transit experiences will hold for business travelers. Supersonic travel.

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Is the RFP Dead? Long Live Next Evolution of Booking

Smart Meetings

Hotel sales teams are barraged with automated forms, lean staffs and limited information to determine what the customer really needs. While this can likely be attributed to independent venues feeling confidence among leisure travel, we’re seeing strong rates for both groups and business travel,” said Emenecker.

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Hotel Online Payments: How and Why to Transform Your Payment Process

AltexSoft Travel

But if you work in the hospitality business, you must have noticed that the way people book and pay for hotels has changed, especially since the start of the pandemic. Hospitality traditionally introduces a lot of friction. Streamlining and automating processes. It works and that’s what matters, right? Hotel payments challenges.

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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

AltexSoft Travel

The hospitality industry was among those that suffered the most because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the hospitality industry, it means that the hotels’ inventory, rates, and availability are pulled from their own websites and/or OTAs they work with and displayed in one place. How metasearch engines work. Via open APIs.

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Accessibility Rules: How to Make Everyone Comfortable at Event Venues

Smart Meetings

This sad reality flies in the face of the $17 billion per year Abilities Expo experts say travelers with disabilities spend. It also ignores the needs of a growing, aging community that still wants to participate fully in travel and meetings. Include a check-box during online registration asking if attendees have any special needs.

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SHR and Leonardo Partner for Media Distribution Services

Leonardo

By partnering with Leonardo, we’re helping to boost the rankings and performance of our hotel clients across travel channels with automated media feeds. When they work together in a system like SHR, static and dynamic content distribution generate more revenue and better control over your brand online.” . About Leonardo.

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