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2012 Hotel Visionary Award Winners
This past April, Hospitality Technology magazine announced the winners of the 2012 Hotel Visionary Awards at the Hotel Technology Forum. Four forward-thinking hotels were awarded the honor in two categories: Infrastructure Innovator and Guest-Facing Innovator. This year's honorees are Flamingo Las Vegas, Gaylord Entertainment, Hilton Worldwide and La Quinta Inns & Suites. The executives behind the technology initiatives share the award-winning hotels' stories.
Cloud Tech is the Today and Tomorrow of Hosted Hospitality
The hospitality industry as a whole should embrace the benefits of cloud technologies as services ranging from human resources to business intelligence all have cloud-based options.

Harnessing & Profiting From Social Media Intelligence

The next wave in customer engagement is social customer relations management. As more formal tools emerge to build brand awareness and identify influential customers, many leading companies are taking a more proactive approach to utilize social media by customizing offers based on activity in order to increase loyalty and sales.
Feds Offer Best Practices for Customer Privacy

As hospitality industry operators collect information from an increasing number of touch points, the Federal Trade Commission is calling on companies to self-regulate use of customer data in order to protect privacy.
Service Offers Help for Hotels with Interest in Pinterest

Lodging Interactive and CoMMingle are helping hotels increase their visibility on the online bulletin board.
Travel Tripper Moves Web Services to the Cloud

Travel Tripper teams with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to make web-scale computing easier.
HTNG Releases Specs to Enhance CRS

Hotel Technology Next Generation has released standards to steel systems against PCI issues and sets its sights on standardizing interfaces between POS and PMS.
Philips Media Suite Honored for Innovation by HTNG

HTNG hotelier members have voted Philips Media Suite the winner of the third annual Innovation Award Competition.
PCI Council Releases Tip Sheet for Tablet POS

The PCI Security Standards Council has released a customized fact sheet offering tips for leveraging PCI Standards to securely accept mobile payments via smartphone or tablet.
Two South Pacific Resorts Benefit from MTech Service Technology

MTech has rolled out property management and Android solutions to streamline operations in two South Pacific properties.

2012 Hotel Visionary Award Winners

Cloud Tech is the Today and Tomorrow of Hosted Hospitality

Harnessing & Profiting From Social Media Intelligence

Feds Offer Best Practices for Customer Privacy

Service Offers Help for Hotels with Interest in Pinterest

Travel Tripper Moves Web Services to the Cloud

HTNG Releases Specs to Enhance CRS

Philips Media Suite Honored for Innovation by HTNG

PCI Council Releases Tip Sheet for Tablet POS

Two South Pacific Resorts Benefit from MTech Service Technology