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Introducing Mobile Rooms Reorder with ALICE Housekeeping
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…
Read MoreUse Checklists to Ensure a Hotel Runs Seamlessly Amid Staff Shortages
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…
Read More2022 Hotel Labor Perfection Toolkit — Achieve 100% Perfect Labor Costs
Thousands of hoteliers across the country are not feeling confident about their hotel’s 2022 labor plan and budget. Are you? Look, developing a budgeting plan for 2022 will be like never before. We can no longer look at like-for-like days last week, last month, or last year. And, we have to address a much shorter…
Read MoreProfitSword and Tripleseat Partner to Provide Hotels With Seamless Data Intelligence Over Catering and Group Sales
Innovators of business intelligence and sales and catering technology ensure instant visibility into sales strategy performance as industry experiences return for event-based bookings.
Read MoreUsing Hotel Technology for Easy Staff Training & Onboarding
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…
Read MoreHotel Effectiveness launches 2022 Labor Perfection Toolkit
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…
Read More[eBook] Labor Perfection Toolkit
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 —…
Read MoreHow a Lean Hotel Staff Can Improve Guest Satisfaction With Messaging
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…
Read MoreProfitSword Takes Hotel Financial Performance Visibility Global With Instant and Fully Automated Currency Conversion
Leading business intelligence provider for hospitality implements advanced currency conversion capabilities for its full suite of hotel performance management and forecasting solutions.
Read MoreProfitSword and Duetto Partner to Provide Hotels With Latest in Time-Saving Revenue and Performance Forecasting Accuracy
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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read More5 Surprising Things I Didn’t Learn About Hotel Tech in School
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.
Read MoreHow Guest Messaging Brings Agility to a Lean Hotel Staff
Before the pandemic, guest messaging in hospitality was a choice – both for hotels and guests.
Read MoreHotel Effectiveness Dominates ALIS Tech Challenge Winning The Hottest Technology Award for Second Consecutive Year
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,…
Read MoreThe Evolving Role of the Hotel General Manager
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…
Read MoreHotels 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…
Read MoreHow Transcendent’s CMMS Can Minimize Risk and Reduce Liability at Your Hotels
A great EAM/CMMS system can help individual hotels as well as entire portfolios of hotels better manage their risk and reduce liability. Some of the potential risks that pose a real threat to hotels, their reputations, and their bottom lines include things like critical equipment failure, catastrophic failure leading to lost business or closure, poor…
Read MoreHow Messaging is the Guests Remote Control of Your Hotel
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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