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...
When most of us think of conferences in the past, we tend to think of dry, bland meeting rooms and bad coffee. The Dolce Group has set about reinventing this concept, with...
Hotels are requiring increasingly more complex solutions and are looking at converged technologies, as an example, to help provide viable and cost- effective services. We...
Previously “on the other side of the fence”, Blake Rampmaier recently took on the role as the new “captain at the helm” of FCS Computer Systems. We spoke to Blake at the...
Electronic distribution is an ever- changing platform including constantly differing players, from small-sized online travel providers to global players. On these pages,...
On these pages, we have gathered together some of the most pertinent and important statements from our (EHL and Cleverdis) talks with Paul Dubrule, co-founder of the Accor...
The EHL has long been behind the establishment of new initiatives towards the growth of the industry. We asked INTEHL Director, Ray Iunius how the idea came about......
How can a hotel make major economies and save almost 2,000,000 kg of carbon dioxide emissions per year? Through one simple decision: changing the lighting systems! This...
RateTiger has been steadily pushing into the Middle East market through an educational approach. Here, we speak with Keith Povah, VP Sales International, on how and what...
With around 70 hotels under management or in the pipeline, the Rotana Group, based in the UAE, is currently the biggest in the region, and is expanding rapidly. Cleverdis...
