LOOKING FOR WAYS TO BOOST DIRECT BOOKINGS AT YOUR HOTEL?

OTAs help hotels sell more rooms to a wide-range of travelers from across the globe. They connect millions of travelers to hotels via online booking platforms every year, which is good for hotels. But, hoteliers feel the heat while paying out a huge sum of their earnings to them as commission charges. This surely impacts their profit margin. In this case, hotels must consider adopting various ways to get more direct bookings without paying commission to OTAs. Read MoreBy: Nandika UdupihillaPublished in: IDS Next 

Will millennials force hotels to menu price their services?

There’s a lot of buzz around  “unbundling” – from cable packages to financial services – driven by the demands of the notoriously budget-conscious millennials. In fact, one-third of millennials say they would stand on an airplane for a discount.

Indeed, the airline industry has proven that the strategy of unbundling can be hugely successful. Ancillary revenue for airlines almost topped $50 billion in 2014, the result of fees now collected on everything from baggage to extra legroom.

Following the success of unbundling, airlines such as American and Lufthansa have now begun to “re-bundle” their fees into “fare families.” These packages come with a range of benefits and restrictions such as priority boarding, different cancellation policies and opportunities to alter the itinerary. Read More

Published in: Tnooz

By: Gautam Lulla

There’s a lot of buzz around  “unbundling” – from cable packages to financial services – driven by the demands of the notoriously budget-conscious millennials.
NB This is a guest article by Gautam Lulla, president of Travel Tripper.
In fact, one-third of millennials say they would stand on an airplane for a discount.
Indeed, the airline industry has proven that the strategy of unbundling can be hugely successful. Ancillary revenue for airlines almost topped $50 billion in 2014, the result of fees now collected on everything from baggage to extra legroom.
Following the success of unbundling, airlines such as American and Lufthansa have now begun to “re-bundle” their fees into “fare families.” These packages come with a range of benefits and restrictions such as priority boarding, different cancellation policies and opportunities to alter the itinerary.
- See more at: http://www.tnooz.com/article/will-millennials-force-hotels-down-the-menu-pricing-route/#sthash.bSMuO51P.dpuf

There’s a lot of buzz around  “unbundling” – from cable packages to financial services – driven by the demands of the notoriously budget-conscious millennials.
NB This is a guest article by Gautam Lulla, president of Travel Tripper.
In fact, one-third of millennials say they would stand on an airplane for a discount.
Indeed, the airline industry has proven that the strategy of unbundling can be hugely successful. Ancillary revenue for airlines almost topped $50 billion in 2014, the result of fees now collected on everything from baggage to extra legroom.
Following the success of unbundling, airlines such as American and Lufthansa have now begun to “re-bundle” their fees into “fare families.” These packages come with a range of benefits and restrictions such as priority boarding, different cancellation policies and opportunities to alter the itinerary.
- See more at: http://www.tnooz.com/article/will-millennials-force-hotels-down-the-menu-pricing-route/#sthash.bSMuO51P.dpuf

Why Choose Hotel Software from IDS Next?

Hotels, resorts and other hospitality properties undertake numerous complex and diversified operations as part of their day to day activity. All these tasks need to be executed in a synchronized manner to ensure better productivity at the hotel. Ensuring that operations across departments are running in a coordinated manner necessitates a smart and robust Hotel Property Management System (PMS).

IDS Next’s Hotel ERP is one of the best hotel software available globally. Over 3500 hotels in 40 countries use its Hotel ERP. Let us hear it from Mr. Kamatchi Nathan, Regional Sales Manager, South about why hoteliers should adopt IDS Next’s hotel management software to ensure smooth hotel operations.

You might be already using a property management system (PMS) but is that an all-in-one integrated hotel ERP? IDS Next enterprise class solution consists of 12 modules seamlessly integrated so that there is a single look and feel across the hotel departments. Since the software runs on a single database, data is also shared across departments. Making your hotel ERP more robust is a large number of software and hardware interfaces to a host of third party solutions. Read More

Published in: IDS Next Blog 

By: Myra Allen 

Is Your Hotel Safe from Hackers?

The PA DSS Standard is an internationally recognized enforceable set of guidelines that requires all organizations and businesses including hotels, that processes or all type of payment cards. The primary objective of adopting this standard is to protect guests’ or customers’ payment card details from being stolen or compromised by hackers. Interestingly, for hotels, neither the size nor the number of transactions happening through payment card processing can determine whether a hotel should adopt PA DSS Certified ERP Software or not.