Hotel Management

Morgans Hotel Group has agreed to purchase the interest in The Light Group, which supplies beverages and food to venues for MGM Resorts International. The acquisition is expected to close sometime this year.

Guests staying in Room 3120 at Novotel Hotels are in for a treat because guests will have the opportunity to utilize a room which is a bit of a break from the norm.

TravelClick has just acquired EZYield. The merger is said to improve hotels' ability to grow distribution as well as reach and manage electronic reservations.

As a growing number of applications are moved into the cloud, CIOs must ensure that their customers' transactional data is still safe. HT provides insight into the PCI Council's latest guidelines for protecting payments in a virtual environment.

Workforce-Velocity has recently entered the limited services market and aims to streamline operations and improve responsiveness by applying its labor management solutions to enhance the cross-functionality of smaller workforces

evolution now offers the buuteeq DMS as a key component of its evolution hotel reservation platform.

As hotels compete for revenue, the speed and availability of their websites is critical. Consumers expect a website to load in two seconds or less, but the average hotel homepage takes an eternity at 6.4 seconds. HT shares insight into balancing functionality with speed to capture more bookings.

OpenWays simplifies hotel master key management by harnessing mobile technologies to make all locks “on line” without costly infrastructure.