Hilton Amsterdam has announced the replacement of its current digital TV system with Swisscom’s award-winning Connected Hotel TV technology beginning of 2012. Along with its new IPTV system, Swisscom will roll out a comprehensive network management plan, which will further improve the user experience on all connected devices on the hotel’s network. Swisscom has been [...]
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Hotel wireless bandwidth increasing at a breathtaking pace, solution found at Hotel Fouquet’s Barrière Paris
November 18th, 2011
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Superior bandwidth, highest dependability and a pro-actively managed network – Hotel Fouquet’s Barrière Paris is setting new standards in Wireless guest Internet services. Making use of Swisscom’s hospitality expertise and Ruckus Wireless’ smart Wi-Fi technologies, the hotel differentiates its services where today’s guests are most sensitive: on their own personal devices such as their Smartphones, [...]
Cloud Computing for Hospitality – what’s behind it?
October 12th, 2011
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A look at cloud computing for Hospitality and what’s behind it, by Rick Sternitzke, CTO of Swisscom Hospitality Services. In the general IT world, “The Cloud” is often perceived to be a revolutionary concept that moves existing property operations from the physical world into the virtual realm. However, we often oversee how the concept of [...]
Jamie Oliver’s Union Jacks extends relationship with QSR
October 11th, 2011
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Jamie Oliver’s new high profile venture, Union Jacks, has announced that it will be using QSR Automations’ high tech kitchen automation to help deliver the same quality standards of food as customers experience in the Jamie’s Italian chain. The QSR range is marketed and serviced in the UK by Edgware-based hospitality software and communications specialist [...]
Build Facebook reservations and win a 5* Mayfair Weekend
September 28th, 2011
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The Restaurant Show will feature ASP Systems demonstrating how their reservation systems now integrate with social media giant Facebook. With more than 30 Million active Facebook users in the UK, developing a relationship with your restaurant customers through their social media network offers substantial benefits that will feed through to your bottom line. ASP Systems [...]
TouchClean freshens up your service
September 21st, 2011
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Call Systems Technology’s Boomerang pagers with TouchClean® now available for foodservice Call Systems Technology’s (CST) Boomerang pagers are proving a popular way of managing queues at restaurants. When customers arrive, they are handed a pager so they can go to the bar or take a stroll nearby, secure in the knowledge they will be called [...]
IHG introduce website ‘Best Price Guarantee’ for guests
September 20th, 2011
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Guests receive a free night if they find a qualifying lower price on any other website through IHG’s Best Price Guarantee. IHG is also giving away 250 hotel room nights to celebrate the launch of Best Price Guarantee, see full details below. InterContinental Hotels Group today announced a major initiative to better serve guests’ evolving [...]
Integrated marketing technology enables Facebook reservations
September 13th, 2011
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“In your Face-Book!” Say’s ASP Systems All embracing ASP Systems are taking giant leaps and bounds setting the next technological advances within their EPoS solution. In addition to their fully customisable CRM and Stock control function, ASP are taking restaurants and bars to new heights with their integrated marketing technology through Facebook reservations and SMS [...]
