Why Microservice Hotel PMS Architecture is the Future
Client-server architecture has long powered hospitality IT, but limits scalability and agility. Microservice-based PMS offers a solution enabling rapid innovation and flexibility, essential for today’s evolving hotel tech needs. In this article, you will explore the microservice hotel PMS architecture world and why it is the future of hotel tech architecture. From Traditional PMS Architecture to Leading-Edge Microservice Architecture Over the last few decades in hospitality technology, Client-Server architecture has been the IT standard across the world. Even though this method served the industry’s basic needs for many years, it has also been responsible for inefficient, hard-to-scale systems that lack
What Advice Would You Offer to Hotels Choosing Their Tech-Stack?
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What advice would you offer to hotels choosing their tech-stack? For example, best practices, features, potential pitfalls, and how to "future-proof". Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Dermot Herlihy - Commercial Director, DUKES LONDON Mariska van Heemskerk - Owner, Revenue Management Works Diego Fernández Pérez De Ponga - Director of Revenue Management, Palladium Hotel Group Fabian Bartnick - Founder, Infinito & Co-Founder, PerfectCheck
5 Strategies to Increase TrevPAR at Your Hotel
From ADR to RevPAR and GOPPAR, lodging operators must track many metrics to assess business performance and make strategic decisions. One of the most powerful but overlooked measures of success for hotels today is TRevPAR, or total revenue per available room. Here we discuss what TRevPAR is and how to increase it at your property. The Rising Importance of Measuring Total Revenue Performance Unlike RevPAR, TRevPAR measures total hotel revenue, not just room revenue. It
Hotel Success Story: How Upsell Expands Guest Satisfaction & Revenue
While hoteliers, in general, are becoming well-versed in the multiple benefits of digital upselling, it’s interesting to note how individual hotels find unique ways of using upselling to boost their business. In this article, Hotel Van der Valk explains what the benefit is of digital upselling and you can download
Tips for Reconsidering Your OTA & Direct Booking Strategy in 2021
When engaging with online travel agencies (OTAs) in this era of uncertainty, hoteliers must properly understand the value and costs associated with all distribution channels. Any relationship weighted in favor of an OTA to the detriment of a hotel’s bottom line needs to be reviewed, and steps should be taken
Pushing Profit Beyond the Guest Room in 2021
Hoteliers are under unforeseen pressure to make magic happen in the new year and get their profitability back on track. Three words: “Total Profit Optimisation.” You’ve likely heard them spoken before in hushed whispers. It’s the ever-elusive and seemingly unattainable holy grail of hotel revenue leadership. Maximising Your Business Revenues