Hoteliers have long understood the benefits of making a green commitment. It enhances their hotel’s reputation and attracts an additional clientele. Suppliers, too, must...
Sponsorship of the EHMA annual meetings has been at the heart of concerns for Michel Fernet - 1st VicePresident Europe – National Delegate France and Monaco - EHMA for the...
Revered as a venue for celebrities, tycoons, the titled and the sophisticated insider alike, the Hotel Principe di Savoia has stood as Milan’s symbol for gracious urban...
On a recent visit of the new W hotel on Sentosa Island in Singapore, we met one of the heads of its design team – Chuck Wood – managing director of Rockwell Group Europe....
The cost of integrating Innovative Technologies into Hotel Operations is often a major point of debate for potential owners and group CIOs. What is expected today and how...
The French economist and writer Jacques Attali, former advisor to President François Mitterrand, founder and first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
In the previous edition of the Cleverdis SMARTreport, we looked at some of the pros and cons of franchising and management contracts, and how to “sort the wheat from the...
While one works with one of the biggest hospitality groups in the world, and the other for an “exclusive” high end chain, both David Esseryk – VP Consumer Technology –...
On April 2nd TP Vision was born & the company changed from a solely owned Philips entity to a joint venture between Philips and TPV. Since then, Scott Housley, leading...
Locatel and Hoist Technology recently announced the creation of a business alliance to form Europe’s “ largest technology and service provider for the hospitality sector...
Nordic Choice Hotel group has begun utilising the OpenWays "Mobile Key" system in a number of properties. The group went live with Mobile Key in the summer of 2011 in its...
At numerous hotel technology events in the past, hosted telephony has been a key point of discussion. The future of hotel communication is definitely “in the cloud” as a...
Cleverdis is delighted to be a part of the 9th annual International Hotel Technology Forum (IHTF) 2012, one of the leading face-to-face events for the hotel technology...
Now in its 37th year, the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference (HITEC) has become the world’s largest hospitality technology event, a place where...
In the SMARTreport in March 2011, we talked to Jeremy Ward, Senior VP of IT, about the migration of their email to a cloud-based system. Kempinski started with a pilot in...
Kempinski Hotels closed 2010 with a 14% revenue increase over 2009; the outlook for the luxury hotel management company, which plans to double its portfolio by 2015, is...
When most of us think of the luxury hotel of the past, we tend to imagine an enormous marbled bathroom, a sumptuous lobby, butler service, limousines, Rolex showcases, the...
Today, more than ever, business transformation is the key to success in the hospitality industry. Launched in 2010 and built around one single comprehensive database and...
In the run-up to the release of our Asia-Pacific Hotel Innovations and Technology SMARTreport, we will be bringing you various reports from the region. Here is a...
Mr. Peter Bierwirth has been President of EHMA for a year now. We caught up with him to ask about his tenure, the upcoming EHMA General Meeting, and what the future holds...
Over the past year, hotels in France have been faced with the onset of new rules and regulations that are for many a “double edged sword”. This said, there are other zones...
In 2006, the EU established Directive 2006/123/EC, calling for more transparency on services in the internal market in relation to classification. HOTREC then started the...
With service industries accounting for 70% of GDP and employment in the European Union, the EU Parliament issued in 2006 the 2006/123/EC Directive, calling for more...
We recently spoke with Fabian Specht, Regional Managing Director, EMEA of IDeaS, on how the revenue management game has changed. He talks about the increasing revenue...
