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Articles tagged “Oracle Hospitality”

Online Travel

What Legacy Travel Companies Could Learn From Oracle Hospitality’s Weeklong Tech Push

A desperate urge to help get the travel sector back on its feet could give some companies a singular purpose, spurring innovation despite the pandemic's hit to revenues.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

What Legacy Travel Companies Could Learn From Oracle Hospitality’s Weeklong Tech Push

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Skift Hotels Summit Video: Building a Strategy for a Successful Hotel Recovery

Thanks to Covid-19, the hospitality sector now faces a steep uphill road to business recovery. In this video conversation from Skift’s recent online hospitality summit, we learn about some of the steps owners and operators are taking to get their properties ready to re-open safely.

Skift | 4 years ago

Skift Hotels Summit Video: Building a Strategy for a Successful Hotel Recovery

Online Travel

Oracle Hospitality Takes Hotel and Vendor Gripes Seriously At Last

For too long, Oracle Hospitality, a giant in the hotel tech space, has prioritized internal needs. Now it's changed its tune. It says it's making hotels the boss. The long overdue customer-first approach is laudable. But there's still work to do.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

Oracle Hospitality Takes Hotel and Vendor Gripes Seriously At Last

Online Travel

Oracle Hospitality’s New Boss Sees Gaps in Its Hotel Tech Portfolio

Oracle Hospitality's Alex Alt sees two gaps in his company's suite: distribution services and customer relationship management tools. Yet the opportunities with both are dynamic, not static, because of fast shifts in hotel company priorities and traveler behaviors. That will require Alt to be one very adaptable executive.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

Oracle Hospitality’s New Boss Sees Gaps in Its Hotel Tech Portfolio

Hotels

How New Entrants Are Shaking Up the Hotel Property Management Space: New Skift Research

Legacy property management systems (PMS) missed the boat when tech innovation started ramping up. Now they are playing catch-up. Cloud computing, open APIs, marketplaces, and middleware layers are shaking up this stale corner of hotel tech, and it’s crazy exciting.

Wouter Geerts, Skift Research | 4 years ago

How New Entrants Are Shaking Up the Hotel Property Management Space: New Skift Research

Online Travel

Hotels Are Finding Cheaper Ways to Connect to Tech Vendors

Hotel tech innovation has been partly hampered by high tolls that property management systems charge for accessing critical data. Impala, Hapi, and other companies hope to bring that connectivity cost down, which could be a windfall for vendors.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

Hotels Are Finding Cheaper Ways to Connect to Tech Vendors

Online Travel

Mews Raises $33 Million to Challenge Oracle Hospitality in Hotel Tech

Game on, Oracle. But like everything in the hotel sector, the battle between next-generation hotel tech players and established titans will take years to play out.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

Mews Raises $33 Million to Challenge Oracle Hospitality in Hotel Tech

Online Travel

Alibaba-Backed Shiji Expands to Hotels Outside of China

Beijing-based Shiji serves more than 47,000 hotels outside of China. This is the first time it has spoken candidly with independent English-language media about its acquisition strategy. This year its subsidiaries have won deals with MGM Resorts, Radisson, and other major brands. Reading between the lines, it has big plans in the works.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Alibaba-Backed Shiji Expands to Hotels Outside of China

Online Travel

Why Hotels Envy Airlines When It Comes to Managing Revenue

The revenue management industry picked an odd time to have an identity crisis, given the opportunity for additional profit that new rate-setting and distribution software could bring.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Why Hotels Envy Airlines When It Comes to Managing Revenue

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Melia Tests Oracle’s Wearable Tech at Its Resorts and Nearby Merchants

Meliá has followed the path of Disney and Carnival to introduce wearable tech. But it has taken the concept further, enabling nearby merchants like Starbucks to also accept payments made by guests via its new smart wristbands.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Melia Tests Oracle’s Wearable Tech at Its Resorts and Nearby Merchants