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

1/3/2023
Service Robots: A Helping Hand for the Hotel Labor Shortage
With the implementation of service robots, the pain points caused by the hotel labor shortage are mitigated by robotics taking on cleaning and hotel food services, allowing employees to focus more of their time catering to the needs of guests.

Michal Christine Escobar
1/3/2023
Succeeding Together: Why Your Hotel’s Technology Integrations are Helping – Or Hindering – Your Hotel’s Ability to Compete
The best way to remain competitive today is through reliable partnerships with trusted technology companies who share your property’s common goals.

Michal Christine Escobar
1/3/2023
RateGain Enters into an Agreement to Acquire Adara
The acquisition will help organizations access the most-comprehensive travel-intent, pricing and inventory data to achieve higher ROI.

Michal Christine Escobar
1/3/2023
Six Hospitality Technology Trends to Watch During 2023

Michal Christine Escobar
1/3/2023
How IHG Created a New Mobile App that Is Outperforming Pre-Pandemic Metrics
This exclusive interview with Josh Weiss, IHG’s VP, Guest Digital Products, provides a behind-the-scenes look into the brand’s recent development and implementation of its new mobile app.

Michal Christine Escobar
1/2/2023
Coming to a Restaurant Near You: Robotic Help
During a labor shortage, robotic help is more likely to become a reality.

Michal Christine Escobar
1/2/2023
eviivo Reveals Top Hospitality and Booking Tech Trends for 2023
From APIs to direct booking, leading hospitality tech company reveals most significant hospitality technology trends emerging in 2023 and beyond.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/27/2022
The Pros and Cons of Using Robots in Hotels
Robots can handle mundane tasks, improve service speed and accuracy, and allow human employees to focus on relationship building, but they aren’t a perfect solution.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/27/2022
Cross-Border Payments: The Customer Experience Differentiator for Hospitality
Streamlining payments can be challenging, but it isn’t impossible.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/26/2022
Sandpiper Hospitality Partners with ProfitSword to Offer Its Hotels Dynamic Business Intelligence Capabilities
Each of Sandpiper Hospitality’s 60 managed properties nationwide will have access to ProfitSword’s suite of advanced budgeting and performance forecasting tools.

Michal Christine Escobar