Michal Christine Escobar

Senior Editor, Hotels

Author Profile

Michal Christine Escobar is Hospitality Technology’s Senior Editor, with a concentration on the hotel industry. She has a decade of experience as a B2B journalist. She is responsible for the hotel beat at the magazine and often writes about AI, VR, IoT and other emerging technologies affecting hospitality.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

3/24/2022
How Technology Can Help Combat the Labor Shortage and Health Concerns Heading into a Busy Spring Break Travel Season
This spring, hoteliers should continue to leverage their technology and consider taking it a step further with in-room portals, automated alerting, and mobile platforms.

Michal Christine Escobar
3/23/2022
SHR’s Wave RMS Connects with Apaleo PMS
Features of the new connection include updated rates, availability restrictions, and oversell limits from the Wave RMS to the Apaleo PMS.

Michal Christine Escobar
3/23/2022
Ennismore, Lifestyle Division of Accor Hotels, Adopts Quicktext
Accor/Ennismore chose Quicktext for the integration of their Conversational AI, but also to benefit from the derivative features of AI such as enriching the hotels’ CRM, feeding the call centers, optimizing SEO with AI-powered snippets, and more.

Michal Christine Escobar
3/23/2022
AHLA Foundation, Castell Project Announce Merger
Together, the AHLA Foundation and Castell will work to strengthen and accelerate the industry’s commitment to elevate women in hospitality.

Michal Christine Escobar
3/22/2022
Open Platforms Will Power the Future of Lodging Technology
Many providers are passing off a network of patched-together systems as a “platform,” but in many cases, property employees still struggle with technological shortcomings such as data silos, synchronization issues, and weak integrations.

Michal Christine Escobar
3/22/2022
PPDS Adds the Apple TV App to Philips MediaSuite Professional TVs for Hotels
The Apple TV app offers viewers a personalized guide to their favorite movies and TV shows across channels, rentals and purchases in a single app.

Michal Christine Escobar
3/22/2022
INTELITY Introduces 1-Click Mobile Check-in for a Seamless Guest Experience
Hotels can now greatly simplify the guest authentication, mobile key and check-in process.

Michal Christine Escobar
3/22/2022
Talkdesk Implements Contact Center Solution for Iberostar Hotels & Resorts
Talkdesk supports iconic travel and tourism brand on journey to the cloud.

Michal Christine Escobar
3/22/2022
5 Ways Hotels and Resorts Can Use Social Media to Attract New Guests
It takes more than just posting a few times a month to attract the attention of consumers. It requires strategy.

Michal Christine Escobar
3/22/2022
SimplyAnnounce, an Electronic Bulletin Board Application, Advances Cloud Communication Platform
Think Simplicity adds new functionality to provide hoteliers with the ability to post important information for staff quickly and easily.

Michal Christine Escobar