Innovation

📱 Kris Douglas, VP of Technology at Small Sliders, focuses on enhancing the brand's digital roadmap with high-quality cheeseburger sliders. Early this year, the brand launched an integrated digital ordering system, an updated app, and a Thanx-powered loyalty program. Since February, the loyalty program is trending towards 40,000 members, despite having only 16 locations. This digital strategy aims to build customer relationships and brand momentum.

📌 SiteMinder, a leading hotel distribution and revenue platform, unveiled 'Dynamic Revenue Plus' for live market intelligence and actionable inventory, pricing, and distribution strategies. Powered by data from 120 million annual hotel reservations, the solution will soon incorporate dynamic pricing recommendations from IDeaS, a SAS company. This unified solution moves hotels away from static revenue management to dynamic, demand-based pricing adjustments accessible via mobile and desktop. Conceived in late 2023 and initially available in Australia and New Zealand, with a global rollout planned for 2025, it's a part of SiteMinder's Smart Platform strategy to make advanced revenue management accessible worldwide. This launch coincides with growing international travel and aims to give hoteliers insights into future demand, enabling them to capitalize on revenue opportunities.

🍴 HOTREC launches a digital campaign to combat food waste, targeting European and national policymakers for awareness. The hospitality industry's innovations are highlighted, emphasizing both current efforts and the need for supportive measures from policymakers to reduce food waste effectively. The campaign aims to influence change and encourage a collective effort against food waste. #EUHospitality #EUFoodWaste #NoMoreFoodWaste #ZeroFoodWaste

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📌 SiteMinder launched "Dynamic Revenue Plus," a revenue management tool for hotels, in late 2023, with availability in Australia and New Zealand first, and a global rollout expected in 2025. It utilizes data from 120 million annual hotel reservations, providing live market intelligence and a dynamic approach to pricing and distribution. This new tool, developed in partnership with IDeaS, offers dynamic pricing recommendations and is designed to be accessible to hotels of all sizes, enabling quicker adjustments to market fluctuations. Fready Goenawan from Ovolo Hotels highlighted the solution's efficiency in providing market insights and saving time for his team.

🏨 SiteMinder, a leading hotel distribution and revenue platform, launched 'Dynamic Revenue Plus' for live market intelligence and immediate action on inventory, pricing, and distribution. The solution leverages 120 million annual reservations data and will soon incorporate IDeaS' dynamic pricing recommendations. Initially available in Australia and New Zealand, with a global rollout expected in 2025, it aims to make revenue management accessible to all hotels. The launch aligns with rising travel and events, helping hotels capitalize on demand surges and market shifts.

💸 SiteMinder, a leading hotel distribution and revenue platform, has launched 'Dynamic Revenue Plus,' a solution offering live market intelligence and immediate action for hotels' inventory, pricing, and distribution. This mobile-first system utilizes data from 120 million annual hotel reservations. It's soon to be enhanced with IDeaS dynamic pricing, providing dynamic, demand-based pricing accessible to hotels of all sizes. Initially available in Australia and New Zealand, with global access expected in 2025, Dynamic Revenue Plus is part of SiteMinder’s Smart Platform strategy. It aims to make advanced revenue management accessible worldwide and supports hotels in adapting to market demand with a comprehensive events database and future demand insights.

💾 SiteMinder unveiled 'Dynamic Revenue Plus,' a new revenue management system for hotels, leveraging 120 million annual hotel reservations data. It offers combined dynamic pricing recommendations from IDeaS and SiteMinder's distribution platform. Initially available in Australia and New Zealand, with a global rollout in 2025, it enables frequent adjustments to revenue strategies, such as bulk room rate updates and marketing promotions, on mobile and desktop. It aims to replace outdated manual revenue management practices and make sophisticated revenue management accessible worldwide.

📌 SH Hotels & Resorts announced the promotion of Shadi Omeish as Vice President of Operations in North America and Milton Sgarbi as Regional Vice President of Operations and Special Projects at 1 Hotel South Beach. Omeish, with over 20 years of experience, previously served as General Manager and Regional Vice President West Coast since joining in 2016. Sgarbi, also with the company since 2016, will oversee 1 Hotel South Beach's 425 rooms, eight dining outlets, and other facilities. The brand is expanding, with new projects in various cities including Seattle, Austin, and San Miguel de Allende, and the Treehouse Hotel Silicon Valley opening this year.

📢 Marta Perez appointed as Senior Director of Sales at Cloudbeds, San Diego, CA, to drive growth in the Americas. With over 15 years’ experience, including at SiteMinder and Triptease, Perez has a successful track record, notably increasing Triptease's sales attainment from 30% to nearly 100% within a year. Cloudbeds, founded in 2012, operates in over 150 countries and has received multiple awards, including Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 in 2023.