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2006-05-29 Hospitality Technology Resource

Internet

Hilton Family of Hotels Announces New Travel Agent Portal to Provide Easy Access to Hotel Information, Rates and Comparisons, Commission and Incentive Program Information
an effort to provide an easy and uniquely tailored online experience for travel agents, the Hilton Family of Hotels has launched a new travel agent information and booking portal, available at www.hiltontravelagents.com. ...more

Pelican System powers-up TTG Travel Club in Online Hotel Reservation System
With Pelican Online Reservation System, the launch of ONLINE-Reservation TTG Travel Club in April 2006 is set to improve the club's appeal, effectiveness and value of investment for both its members and participating partners (suppliers of travel products and services). ...more

TIG Global Receives Two Webby Awards for Website Design
LXR and the Boulders Resort Recognized as Top International Websites ...more

Lodging Interactive Launches Hotelmashups - Interactive Maps
Location, location and location that is what sells hotel rooms and often at the best possible rate. Lodging Interactive, a leading hospitality Internet sales & marketing company, launched HotelMashups today. ...more

UNWTO And Tralliance Corporation Agree To .travel Place Name Priority Right Extension Through 2006
Tralliance Corporation, the .travel Registry, announced an agreement with the UNWTO to continue the extension of the .travel Place Name Priority Right through December 31, 2006. ...more

Online Channels to Generate 60% of U.S. Travel Bookings by 2008
The trends in the U.S. travel market are clear: Online channels are projected to generate 60% of all U.S. travel gross bookings by 2008, moving into a dominant position relative to offline channels. ...more

Nine Tips to Create a Dominant Hotel Web Site - By Neil Salerno
Many hoteliers today agree that the only way to really measure the effectiveness a hotel web site is to track the number of reservations being generated from it. ...more

Great leap forward as Chinese tourists head for the internet
Online travel websites are expanding rapidly, Andrew Yeh writes from Beijing ...more

First Quarter Worldwide Hotel Revenue Up 12.9% from Electronic Channels
TravelCLICK's eMonitor results for the first quarter of 2006 show that worldwide electronic hotel revenue from the Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and key Internet sites combined was up 12.9%. ...more

JupiterResearch Finds That Online Travel Package Purchases Have Risen Over 40 Percent Among Consumers Requiring Multiple Products
This Shift in Online Travel Purchase Behavior Comes after Two Years of Little Change ...more

Online Sales Grow by Double Digits
Online sales will top $200 billion this year, up 20 percent from 2005, according to the National Retail Federation's online division, Shop.org. ...more

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Technology

Hospitality Safe Corporation Installs 8,500 Challenger Series Safes in Casino and Hotel Guest Rooms in 1Q'06
Flamingo Las Vegas, Tropicana Tap Market Leader for Reliability, Uptime, Security for Guest Valuables ...more

Debbie Leander, Former VP of Product Management For Daylight Software, Forms Turning Stone Software
Turning Stone provides software and analysis contract services to technology vendors and consumers ...more

MICROS and VeriFone Form Alliance to Fight Credit Card Fraud in Restaurants
MICROS Will Resell VeriFone Secure Payment Solutions; VeriFone's New Vx 670 Mobile Payment System Fully Integrated with MICROS RES 4.0 ...more

Pineapple Lights Up Hotels' Bottom Lines
Hospitality Properties Reap Significant, Sustained Economic Benefits By Embracing Environmentally-Friendly, Energy-Efficient Bulbs; Lighting Retrofits Reduce Costs & Bolster Guest Satisfaction ...more

New Maestro 'GEM' Guest Experience Management Drives Repeat Business, Captures Comments Online
Automated Response Analysis Boosts Guest Loyalty ...more

Technology for the Hotel Room of the Future - By Chris Hartmann
This PowerPoint Presentation (as PDF) covers future technology for the guestroom. Future is defined as 'from this moment on', but most covers the next 1-3 years (2007-2009). ...more

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