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🏡 Barcelona-based tourist rental agency Click&Flat partners with Minut in January 2025 to tackle noise complaints, aiming for better community relations. Minut's privacy-safe sensors alert managers to excessive noise, enhancing guest relations and potentially increasing local business revenue. Click&Flat, founded in 2009, integrates Minut with Airbnb and Icnea for real-time property insights, reducing onsite visits and improving service efficiency. This collaboration supports community quality of life and combats potential rental bans by 2028.

🏨 Boom, an AI Property Management Software, announced on 17 December 2024, in Miami, FL, that it is expanding into the boutique hotel sector. The platform offers far-reaching automation allowing small to medium-sized hotels to compete with larger chains by streamlining operations and focusing on guest experience. Features include 24-hour guest messaging, negotiations by an AI sales agent, maintenance scheduling, AI-powered reporting, and review management. Founded by Shahar Goldboim, Boom aims to revolutionize hospitality using AI. Press contact: Madeleine Parkin (+34 684 218 737) and Stewart Paterson (+44 7387 314249). For more info, visit www.boomnow.com.

🏗 Hostaway, a vacation rental software platform, announced a strategic growth investment of $365 million led by General Atlantic and PSG Equity on December 17, 2024. With properties across 90 countries, the investment follows Hostaway's $175 million fundraise in 2023, marking the segment's largest capital raise. The company, founded in 2015 and managing over 230 employees in 44 countries, aims to use the investment for international expansion, product development, and AI initiatives. Hostaway has also secured high partnership designations with Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking.com, and offers a fully remote workforce. The short-term rental sector is valued at $133 billion GMV and has grown at a 12% CAGR over the last decade.

🏨 Düsseldorf's Zipper Hotel & Apartments, operational since November 2023 with only six staff members, leverages the "Like Magic" tool for efficiency. Despite the lean team, the hotel boasts ratings of 4.6 on Google and 8.8 on Booking.com. The platform, which consolidates operations and guest services into one system, helped rapidly train staff within one and a half days. Co-founders Lindner and Oberdieck claim an 80% smaller workforce with no compromise on service quality.

🏠 In London, on 4 December, 2024, eviivo, a property management system, partnered with Jervis Systems to offer automated property control for short-term rentals, vacation homes, and hotels, saving property managers up to 10 hours weekly per listing. The integration features contactless check-in, smart home automation, and scalable property access via a centralised dashboard, with unique, time-sensitive SET® PIN codes for secure guest entry. The American Hotel and Lodging Association 2024 survey highlighted keyless entry as the second-highest guest priority after WiFi. Jervis Systems' platform also supports smart device automation, which can be controlled through AccessMyProperty.com or its mobile app. Eviivo serves over 28,000 hospitality businesses, and Jervis Systems automates access for various property types.

💲 On December 3, 2024, in London, RMS Cloud, a leader in hospitality property management software, appointed Sandrine Zechbauer as Chief Marketing Officer. With over 16 years of experience, including roles at British Airways, Etihad, Air France, and Sabre, Zechbauer will lead marketing strategies across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas. This appointment is part of RMS Cloud's strategic global growth and brand awareness plans, following investment from Advent Partners. RMS Cloud services over 7,000 properties in 70 countries.

📈 IDeaS, a SAS company, released "5 Predictions That Will Shape Hospitality in 2025" on 25 November 2024. The report predicts: generational shifts in travel demand, experiential travel opportunities, increased focus on ancillary revenue and events, investment in AI for revenue management, and accelerated cloud migration. Insights were gathered from industry leaders like Amadeus and Sabre Hospitality, aiming to help hoteliers adapt to evolving technology and guest expectations. 📊