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Avoiding a Stay at a Haunted Hotel And Why We Need a Travel App for That

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Tilting Point acquires publishing rights for WhaleApp’s Hidden Hotel: Miami Mystery

Venture Beast

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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Google highlights hotels that cater to COVID-19 responders

Venture Beast

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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Marriott Hotels offers virtual site tours

Computer Weekly

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

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Publicly-traded manufacturer Brady Corporation invests in Seattle startup React Mobile

GeekWire

React Mobile CEO Robb Monkman. React Mobile Photo). Seattle startup React Mobile today announced a $6 million investment from Brady Corporation , a Milwaukee, Wisc.-based Founded in 2013, React Mobile sells safety software and “panic button” devices, mainly targeting hotels across the U.S.

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO Business Intelligence

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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IoT Hotel Room of the Future

IT Toolbox

” Thanks to IP-based communications and the adoption of mobile VoIP technologies, we are more connected than ever. Frost & Sullivan recently predicted that, “…every person globally will be impacted by IoT; its emergence will disrupt traditional business models across every industry.”

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