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Influence Society Expands in Europe with New Paris Office Led by Former Aman Hotels Executive

📍 Influence Society, a creative agency, opened a new office in Paris at 28 Cours Albert 1er in the 8th Arrondissement. Eve-Marie Steenman, with experience from Aman Hotels, leads the Paris office, focusing on high-touch digital storytelling for hotel brands. The Paris location was chosen for strategic growth and cultural alignment, highlighting Influence Society's design-centric approach in the hospitality industry since 2016. The agency services include performance marketing, custom websites, branding, and content creation, catering to hotels across Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Visit their website at www.influence-society.com.
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Nearly 80% of STR hosts are saying ‘no’ to traditional property managers – Hospitable

🏡 In San Francisco, April 15, 2025, Hospitable's research indicates 79.7% of independent short-term rental (STR) hosts prefer not hiring property management companies (PMCs) for the next year. High PMC costs (82.2%) and the desire for direct control (58.4%) are major reasons. Over one in eight hosts returned to self-management due to dissatisfaction, aiming for greater guest interaction control (63.7%) and higher profitability (54.7%). Technology is a key enabler, with 96.8% of hosts considering it essential. Hospitable, founded in 2016, empowers hosts with tools for automation, including AI-powered messaging, team notifications, and synchronized calendars. The survey for 'The Evolving STR Landscape' report included 566 hosts and managers and was conducted in Q1 2025.
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RobosizeME Launches OTA Payment & Routing Suite for Hotels Using Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP)

💳 On 15 April 2025, Prague-based RobosizeME, a hospitality automation provider, launched its OTA Payment & Routing Suite for hotels using the Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP) for Opera Cloud. The suite automates OTA bookings and virtual credit card handling, aiming to reduce manual errors, enhance billing accuracy, and improve guest services. Co-founders Stephen Burke and Linda Girrbach emphasize the suite's potential to eliminate high-risk manual steps and ensure consistent OTA billing rule implementation. RobosizeME also offers a broad range of AI-enabled automation solutions for the hotel industry, stressing security with ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance.
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Influence Society Becomes First Digital Marketing Agency in Hospitality to Earn Webflow Enterprise Certification

📈 Influence Society, specializing in lifestyle and luxury hospitality brands, became the first in its sector to earn Webflow Enterprise Certified and Premium Partner status, highlighting its proficiency in developing scalable, high-performing websites for premium hotel and hospitality brands. Webflow’s no-code platform enables the agency to maintain design integrity while meeting high aesthetic standards. They have successfully deployed projects across Europe, North America, and the GCC, improving brand experience and direct bookings. Influence Society plans to further expand its Webflow-based services in 2025, focusing on multilingual sites, mobile-first design, and custom API integrations.
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SuiteOp raises $3 million in funding to transform lodging operations through next-gen automation

💸 SuiteOp, a Guest Operations Platform, announced a $3 million seed funding round on April 7, 2025, in New York. The investment, led by ScOp with Dream Capital and strategic angels, will be used for product innovation, team expansion, and market growth. Co-founders Jean-Emmanuel Losi and Simon Seroussi created SuiteOp to address operational challenges in hospitality, such as high costs and labor shortages. The platform connects hospitality teams and guests, integrates IoT, guest portals, and analytics, and has seen a 5x increase in run rate and 15% monthly growth with zero customer churn. SuiteOp, founded in 2023, targets efficiency and premium guest experiences for property managers.
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PSNI Global Alliance Introduces Exclusive Quality Assurance Certification to Elevate Industry Standards

💻 PSNI Global Alliance, a global network in over 200 cities, has launched its Quality Assurance Certification (QAC) on April 2, 2025, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The QAC, co-developed with AQAV, offers a two-day workshop for CSPs in technical field operations, system design, service management, and installation, concluding with a Q&A assessment. It incorporates AV9000 quality principles for standardizing excellence in AV projects. The first QAC course was held March 31 – April 1 in Atlanta prior to PSNI’s Supersummit.
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IDeaS and Medialog Announce Technology Integration Partnership

💾 — In Paris on 2 April 2025, IDeaS and Medialog PMS announced a technology integration partnership to boost productivity and profitability for French hotels, targeting Medialog's network of 1400 properties. The collaboration promises to maximize occupancy, increase ADR, enable real-time data exchange, eliminate errors, and optimize revenue across various hotel types. Medialog's President, Cyrille Bellefaix, emphasizes the integration's capacity to simplify operations and enhance profitability, while IDeaS' Global Alliances Director, Olga Tolle-Rodrigues, highlights the strategic benefits for hoteliers in the region.
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Bob W appoints JLL hotels and hospitality chief to board as operator ramps up EU expansion

🏦 On 26th March, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland, Bob W, a tech-powered hospitality operator, announced that Philip Ward, former CEO of JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group for EMEA, joined their Board of Directors. Ward has 35 years of experience, recently overseeing a team of 130 hotel experts across 10 countries. His appointment aligns with Bob W's European expansion, including a new building in Athens. The company, with over €70 million in funding, has grown to over 5000 units across 17 cities.
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SHR unveils AI Assistant to solve hotels’ costly content inefficiencies

💾 SHR launched AI Assistant for hotels on 24 March 2025 in Houston, TX to automate multilingual content creation in CRS and CRM systems, enhancing guest experience and streamlining operations. The AI Assistant tackles outdated content workflows, instantly generates optimized descriptions and messaging, and ensures consistency and accessibility compliance. It's integrated directly into SHR's platforms, reducing manual workload. SHR, founded in 2004, services over 2,000 global hoteliers and is part of the Access Company.
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