Top 10 Hotel Checklists to Efficiently Operate Your Hotel

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As hotels respond to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by partially or completely shutting down their operations to guests, proper steps need to be followed to make sure that the shutdown is effective, well-documented, and is easily reversible when travel starts to return.

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How to Reopen Your Hotel Post COVID-19

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A Guideline for Hotels to Welcome Guests Again Using Proper Social Distancing Measures By Sam Evers, Chief Strategy Officer at Alice Over the next few months, we believe hotels will begin to reopen. With COVID-19 still looming, the question on everyone’s minds is how hotels will do so in a way that is safer than…

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Hotel Checklists: The Ultimate Library of Hotel SOP To-Do’s

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Hotel checklists detail multi-step standard operating procedures, both complicated and mundane. Going to the grocery store with a checklist yields dramatically different results than going to the grocery store without one. In one scenario, you have grocery bags filled with a week’s worth of ingredients for well-balanced meals and healthy snacks. In the other scenario,…

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Hotel Effectiveness Named Hotel Tech Report’s Top-rated 2020 Labor Management Software

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HotelTechAwards, ‘Grammys of Hotel Tech,’ Crowns 2020 Winners The 2020 HotelTechAwards, produced by Hotel Tech Report and often labeled the “Grammys of Hotel Tech,” recently crowned winners across a variety of categories. The competition runs the gamut from marketing and revenue solutions to those oriented toward guest experiences and operations. 2020 Voting included participation from…

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Hotel Guest Room Deep Clean Checklist

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Improve the Guest Experience by Creating a Healthy Environment with this Deep Clean Checklist You know that deep cleaning guest rooms is important — and even more so during this challenging time. So, what are the steps to go about it in a productive, efficient way? Here at Hotel Effectiveness, we created a detailed Guest…

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Choosing the Right Operations CMMS | 5 Key Criteria

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The Right Facility Operations Management System will Improve Director Level Visibility and Improve a Technicians Work Order Accuracy. Implementing the right asset and maintenance management system will prove to be one of the best operational decisions you can make to improve your bottom line. Today roughly 50% businesses and local governments are currently using a…

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Alice Lanza Software Gratuito: Lista de Verificacion para Recuperacion de COVID-19

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Alice lanz√≥ un nuevo producto gratuito para ayudar a los hoteleros a operar de manera m√°s eficiente durante COVID-19. El Software Lista de Verificaci√≥n para Recuperaci√≥n de COVID-19 de Alice est√° disponible ahora y es gratuito para ayudar a los hoteles a gestionar las operaciones en tiempos de baja ocupaci√≥n o cierre, enfrentar tiempos de…

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The Importance of Housekeeping Software in Hotel Management

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The housekeeping department plays a vital role in every hotel. Housekeeping staff is responsible for ensuring that guest areas are trim and spruce, and without housekeeping, the state of a hotel would quickly deteriorate. The housekeeping department is the backbone of any hotel and it plays a crucial role in keeping guests satisfied.

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Hotel Effectiveness Wins ALIS Tech Challenge and Named Hottest Technology in 2020

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ATLANTA, GA – Hotel Effectiveness®, the leading innovator in labor management software, was named the “Hottest Hotel Technology of 2020” at the America’s Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS). ALIS is the world’s largest hotel investment conference. Hotel Effectiveness was one of ten innovative hotel technology companies to showcase their products. Other participants included myDigitalOffice, Tripleseat, Beekeeper, and Revinate.…

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The Impact of Wage Increases and a Tightening Labor Market on the Hotel Industry

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The unemployment rate in the U.S. dipped down to 3.7% in 2018—the lowest it’s been since the 1970s. And, just last month, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate reached a historically low 3.5%. Further, wage growth continues to outpace inflation, with average hourly earnings rising 3.1% year-over-year in November. In addition, as many as…

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