Hotel Technology Predictions for 2021

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December is the time of year when experts across all industries come out and make their predictions for the next year. They look at trends and performance from the previous year, five years and decade, to make data-driven projections about the future, and depending on who these predictions come from, they can carry a lot…

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What is the ROI for Hotel Housekeeping Software?

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Housekeeping is one of the most expensive departments in a hotel. But, it is also one of the departments which completes some of the most impactful work in a hotel. Guests immediately notice when rooms aren’t clean, and they aren’t shy about letting hoteliers know. 

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Hotel Preventative Maintenance Checklists

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Hotel Preventative Maintenance Checklists 15+ Must-Have Preventative Maintenance Checklists As hotels operate with low occupancy, saving money is just as important as maintaining your hotel’s physical property and responding to guest requests. Preventative maintenance for equipment and hotel facilities is one of the best ways to reduce capital expenditures. Every dollar spent on preventative maintenance…

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Ultimate Hotel Housekeeping Checklists

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The Ultimate Hotel Housekeeping Checklists 15+ Checklists to Help Your Housekeeping Department Keep Your Hotel Clean & Safe As occupancy increases, there will be intense scrutiny for housekeeping departments to not only clean, but also sanitize every inch of each guest room – and prove it. Departments will also need to implement new SOPs that…

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[Infographic] Why Hotel Housekeeping Software is Essential

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INFOGRAPHIC Why Hotel Housekeeping Software is Essential The work of a hotel employee is never done. With enhanced cleaning and sanitization protocols, the daily housekeeping tasks have gone from important to essential. Hotel housekeeping software can help your department maintain records, earn and keep guests’ trust, be proactive, gain transparency and accountability, and reduce face-to-face contact….

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Top Reasons Hotel Technology is Essential

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As the hotel industry continues to operate under the extraordinary circumstances of 2020, many hotel employees have proved themselves to be not only hospitality heroes, but in some cases, essential workers, as defined by their state. From hosting medical personnel and first responders (like many New York City hotels in April did), to hosting COVID…

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Why the Time to Buy Hotel Software is Now

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2020 has been a challenge for the hotel industry; a lesson in facing adversity. There’s no need to list the myriad of ways in which hotel teams around the world, and the hospitality industry in general, have suffered; we’ve all lived it. Part of what was hard about 2020 was that so many of the…

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How to Buy Hotel Software: The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide

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As 2021 approaches, hoteliers are putting together their budgets and thinking about the improvements and upgrades that they can make in their tech stacks for the upcoming year. Just like buying a car, choosing a college, or deciding where to live, there are a lot of considerations that go into purchasing hotel software.

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How Checklists Can Improve Hotel Operations

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Happy National Checklist Day! Yes, there is such a thing, and yes, we are celebrating! There seems to be a national day for everything. Some days we can get on board with, like National Donut Day, some that are just odd (National Awkward Moments Day, National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day, the list goes on…),…

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ProfitSword Recognized by Golden Bridge Business & Innovation Awards as a Leading Developer of Next Generation Business Intelligence Technology

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ORLANDO, Fla. – (October 26, 2020) – ProfitSword, the leading developer of hotel business intelligence and data integration software for the hospitality senior living industries, has been named a Silver winner by the 12th Annual Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards for its role in enhancing business intelligence capabilities with the recently launched ProfitAbility solution. An…

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