CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. It is the brains of everything — our core system.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Garden City Hotel managing director Grady Colin said that if they vacuum every floor with a robot, it saves one entire shift. That translates to one person each day that can be reassigned to do other tasks or in this environment, one less employee they have to struggle to hire.

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CTOvision

JULY 20, 2015

The first hotel to be completely run by robots opened Friday, July 17th in Japan. The Weird Hotel in Japan where the front desk is staffed by ROBOTS opens (dailymail.co.uk). Japanese equips hotel with dinobots to greet foreigners (vr-zone.com). Japan's robot hotel is for you (pcworld.com). Related articles. Japan's $1.4M

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Forrester IT

APRIL 16, 2024

With some 30,000 people jammed into a Las Vegas hotel and convention center, expectations were clearly high — and Google gave them plenty to consider. Google conjured a Christmas-in-July atmosphere by scheduling Google Cloud Next April 9-11, some four months earlier than usual to present its AI offerings ASAP and upstage its rivals.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Bill Gates’ Cascade Investment LLC is acquiring a controlling stake in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts , the company announced Wednesday. Gates and Cascade first invested in Four Seasons in 1997 when the hotel was public. The Four Seasons in Seattle. Four Seasons Photo). Cascade is purchasing half of the 47.5%

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Wi-Fi networks in hotels typically favor guest convenience over strong security practices, says the FBI.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 4, 2024

After countless flights and hotel check-ins, I’m pleased to share what I observed from Forrester’s roundtable events covering generative AI (genAI) in marketing, held in four cities: Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Bangalore. What an amazing two weeks it was!

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Using a hotel key stored in Apple Wallet | Photo by Hyatt. Apple is partnering with Hyatt to give some hotel guests the ability to store their room keys in their Apple Wallets, as announced in a post on Hyatt’s newsroom. Your Apple Watch can unlock your hotel room at participating Hyatt hotels. Photo by Hyatt.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While hotel Wi-Fi is convenient, security is not the priority, federal government says.

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Hotels Government Security 155

Computer Weekly

AUGUST 11, 2017

A Russian cyber espionage group is targeting hotel Wi-Fi networks to carry out malware infections and potentially steal credentials, researchers warn

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 4, 2021

Tilting Point will become the exclusive publisher for Hidden Hotel: Miami Mystery while the developer WhaleApp focuses on updates. Read More.

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Venture Beast

MAY 21, 2020

Google is introducing a new feature that shows which hotels have special rates and policies for frontline workers dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. Read More.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 5, 2021

Disney's long-awaited Star Wars hotel experience has a new name and grand opening window. Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, as it is called, makes its debut next Spring, according to a teaser Disney Parks posted Wednesday (below).

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Atari CEO Fred Chesnais has partnered with companies on cryptocurrencies, Atari hotels, and the VCS home console. Read More.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 3, 2021

Will people actually be staying in space hotels by 2027? But there are plenty of skeptics that space hotels could become a reality for Americans who are still waiting on universal healthcare. That’s the promise of Orbital Assembly and Voyager Station , space startups that got a lot of headlines this week. Read more.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

OTA Insight, a market intelligence platform that gives hotels the data and analytics to increase their revenues, has raised $80 million. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Imagine booking a room at a small, charming, off-the-beaten-path hotel on the Hawaiian island of Kauai using a popular mobile travel app, only to discover that the room is… haunted! But what is not commonly known is that this family-owned hotel once thrived as a busy brothel during the City’s wild Barbary Coast days. Then, at 3 A.M.,

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Gizmodo

MARCH 9, 2021

The hotel, a gaudy building in downtown Syracuse, New York, housed child stars and politicians in the decades after it opened in 1924. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Carter stayed there, as did Charles Lindbergh, on tour to celebrate his trans-Atlantic flight. The stairs leading to a cavernous lobby are covered… Read more.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“Who’d spend $6,000 to stay at Disney’s Star Wars hotel for and LARP for two nights?” we all asked , ready to be cut down by our hubris like Anakin Skywalker slicing his way through younglings. Turns out the answer is a lot of people. Read more.

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Computer Weekly

APRIL 20, 2017

Hotel group InterContinental (IHG) reveals that malware attempting to glean payment card details sat undetected on its network in the US for three months

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A married couple that had tested positive for COVID-19 was apprehended by Dutch police this weekend after they managed to sneak out of the local quarantine hotel. According to a local report from Dutch newspaper Het Parool, the pair were arrested onboard just moments before their plane was set to head to Spain from… Read more.

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Computer Weekly

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

InterContinental Hotel Group’s European marketing manager, Charlie Aspey, tells Computer Weekly how the firm has deployed dynamic email marketing across all its hotel brands

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The company, which raised about $20 million to launch a national network of women-oriented co-working spaces prior to the pandemic, will partner with high-end hotels to give its members access to underutilized lobbies, conference rooms and other amenities under a new “Riveter Spaces” initiative.

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TechSpot

JULY 14, 2020

million people who stayed at MGM Resorts hotels had been published on a hacking forum. Back in February, it was reported that the personal details of more than 10.6 But it’s been discovered that the actual figure is much higher after an ad appeared on the dark web offering details.

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IT Toolbox

APRIL 11, 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has advised users to refrain from using free electric charging plugs at airports, bus stops, shopping centers, and hotels due to the increasing risk of juice-jackin.

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IT Toolbox

APRIL 19, 2017

The many moving parts of hotels and resorts must work in sync every day to ensure that the business operates at its optimum level. In the hospitality industry, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a vital tool for ensuring the best possible experience for guests.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 6, 2014

Amerimar Enterprises and Abrams Capital have acquired 401 North Broad Street, the major data center and carrier hotel in Philadelphia, and will partner with telecom industry veteran Hunter Newby to operate the property. Featured'

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

The San Francisco-based startup, which is part hotel and part apartment-style vacation rental, is now offering units at Solis , a modern development located at 1300 E. A Sonder unit in Solis, a building in Seattle’s Capitol Hill. Sonder Photo). Sonder , a tech-enabled hospitality company, is moving into Seattle.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

From the makers of Star Wars: The Theme Park: The Comic Book , now comes Star Wars: The Theme Park: The Hotel: The Comic Book ! Read more.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the new canon, everyone will somehow be connected to the Halcyon, aka the Galactic Starcruiser, aka Walt Disney World’s ludicrously expensive hotel / Star Wars LARP zone. In the old Star Wars Expanded Universe , it seemed like every character, no matter how minor, had had a run-in with Han Solo. Or at least they will… Read more.

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Computer Weekly

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Hotel chain has enlisted London mobility startup GoInStore to offer visitors to its website virtual facility tours

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Hotels Virtualization Mobile 100

Gizmodo

APRIL 26, 2021

This summer, you might want to add “unplugging Google” after checking for bedbugs to the list of tasks to complete when you settle into a hotel room. Read more.

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Computer Weekly

JULY 12, 2016

Hotel group implements centralised security management to proactively protect endpoints and achieve accurate security information

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CTOvision

APRIL 2, 2020

The hotel giant said Tuesday it discovered in late February the breach of an unspecified property system at a franchise hotel. The hackers obtained the login details of two employees, a hotel statement said, and […]. million guests.

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 22, 2016

In addition, this week it is launching a specialist VoIP division for the hotel industry, Phonesuite DIRECT. PhoneSuite, which specializes in telecoms solutions for the US hospitality industry, has introduced a new VoIP PBX offering, Managed VOICE.

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Computer Weekly

AUGUST 16, 2016

Ongoing data breaches through point of sale malware highlights the need for security standards and central support for franchisees in the hotel industry, say security experts

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. Moreover, IHG’s cloud backbone enables it to take advantage of emerging SaaS offerings, such as Speakeasy AI conversational chatbots, and deliver its own IHG Voice Cloud AI service to help guests and reception desk clerks at hundreds of hotels.

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