Introducing Mobile Rooms Reorder with ALICE Housekeeping

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Hotel housekeepers are expert jugglers. The housekeeping team is responsible for managing and completing room cleaning tasks which change not just daily and hourly – but even by the minute. To uphold the hotel’s service standards, rooms must be cleaned and ready as new guests arrive at the hotel and current guests return after an…

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Use Checklists to Ensure a Hotel Runs Seamlessly Amid Staff Shortages

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Hotel staff complete many tasks and processes every day. And the key to delivering a comfortable stay and excellent guest services depends on all employees following through with each step and finishing each job to the hotel’s standards. But what happens when the person who regularly completes a job isn’t available? Or when tasks come…

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Using Hotel Technology for Easy Staff Training & Onboarding

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Can Operations Software Make Hospitality Hiring Easy? Hospitality has been hit by a staffing shortage worse than almost any other industry during the pandemic. Hotels are forced to operate with a lean staff and, in some cases, hire applicants with little to no previous hospitality experience. While hotel general managers are wearing multiple hats to…

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Hotel Effectiveness launches 2022 Labor Perfection Toolkit

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Hotel Effectiveness has released the 2022 Labor Perfection Toolkit, including its first-ever budget calculator. The toolkit was built to help hoteliers develop and validate 2022 budgets. The 2022 Labor Perfection Toolkit includes a labor success plan with insights from industry operations leaders, access to custom local performance benchmark reports and the flagship labor budget calculator. The…

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[eBook] Labor Perfection Toolkit

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GUIDE Labor Perfection Toolkit Our Easy-to-Follow 4-Step Labor Success Plan Maximize GOP This guide will introduce you to four building blocks, and then help you develop a sample labor budget for specific time periods. Understanding and applying these concepts to your hotels can assist leaders at every level of your business to increase profits —…

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How a Lean Hotel Staff Can Improve Guest Satisfaction With Messaging

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Providing a contactless experience through guest messaging used to be a ‘nice-to-have’ – both for hotels and guests. Today, guest messaging is an essential tool; contactless communication is crucial at a time when teams are understaffed and social distancing regulations are in flux. In fact, we’ve seen huge increases in adoption: in one example, an…

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ProfitSword and Duetto Partner to Provide Hotels With Latest in Time-Saving Revenue and Performance Forecasting Accuracy

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Alpharetta, Ga. and San Francisco, Calif. – (September 21, 2021) – ProfitSword, a premier developer of business intelligence and data integration software, is proud to announce the integration of its BI platform with Duetto, a leading innovator of advanced revenue management technology for the hospitality industry. Properties of any size and market segment type can now take…

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The Importance of Managing the Entire Lifecycle of Your Assets

We all know that a key purpose of an enterprise asset management system is to extend the lives of your assets through proper maintenance, but how does your EAM/CMMS system help when your assets are nearing the end of their useful life? Most maintenance management systems specialize in the operation and maintenance phase of the…

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5 Surprising Things I Didn’t Learn About Hotel Tech in School

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After graduating with a master’s in hotel administration, I assumed that I had learned about every aspect of the hospitality industry. But as much as hotel technology is prevalent and growing in our world today, there are quite a few things that came as a surprise to me when I started working for ALICE. 

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Hotel Effectiveness Dominates ALIS Tech Challenge Winning The Hottest Technology Award for Second Consecutive Year

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Hospitality leaders reward the only fully integrated and complete labor optimization system ATLANTA – (July 28, 2021) Hotel Effectiveness®, the industry leader for hotel labor optimization, earned its second “Hottest Technology” title during the 20th anniversary of the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS), the world’s largest hotel investment conference.  Competing against the most innovative technologies in the industry,…

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The Evolving Role of the Hotel General Manager

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Hotel general managers have always worn many hats – chief problem solver, employee morale booster, head of the complaints department. If something needs to be handled, GMs at properties, regardless of price point and location, are often the first to roll up their sleeves to help. Throughout the pandemic, GMs were at the forefront, guiding…

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Hotels are like Tetris

A hotel is like… Tetris? Do something good, it disappears. The tasks that are completed in full and on time fit seamlessly within the flow of the day. It’s Monday and rush rooms needed by 10 am are ready by 9:30 am. Afternoon check-in time at the front desk runs smoothly with guests never having…

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How Messaging is the Guests Remote Control of Your Hotel

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There is no better feeling than being comfortable and familiar in your own space. You have a sense of control in your home, your town with your go-to restaurants, your favorite tv shows, and – let’s not forget the ultimate comfort feeling – knowing where the light switches are in the middle of the night….

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