Industry must ally with academia

Ronnie Sarkar, Senior Vice President, Sales, IDS NEXT Business Solutions Pvt Ltd, talks about the need to strengthen the hotel management education in the best interests of the industry.
Growth and future of hotel management education in India
The future of hotel management education looks quite bright and promising and there are several factors behind it playing big roles. The Government policy aiming to boost the level of technical education is one of the main reasons as hotel management education falls under this category.
Additionally, another main reason is that tourism in India is poised to grow and as per the World Trade Organization, India is set to receive 25 million foreign tourists by 2015. In proportion to this, the country is also gearing up to have more hotels to accommodate the growing number of tourists. It has been observed that many more hotel brands are coming to India to tap the vast market and they will all need skilled manpower who can add value to their operations. This is where exactly the need for quality hotel management education draws attention.
Besides, the good news is that property management system is now a part of the curriculum and hoteliers; the market leaders, especially, want people trained on property management software as they get a ready resource.Read more

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Previous IDS NEXT: Redefining the Hotel Management Education in India

Tourism in India is set to grow and as per the World Travel Organization, the country is getting ready to receive 125 million tourists by 2015. In proportionate to this, India is also gearing up to have more hotels at all categories to accommodate the ever growing number of tourists.

Take a look at the below mentioned statistics:

• India has over 200,000 hotels rooms across categories and is expected to have more 114,000 hotel rooms in next five years.

Now, the next big question is – Does the ever growing Indian Hotel Industry have access to extremely talented pool of personnel to run the show at various levels? No doubt, the growth in tourism and hotel hospitality business has led to a sharp increase in the number of institutions providing quality education in the field of hotel management.

Some of the reputed institutions are always a step ahead than their competitors in terms of introducing several new elements to their curriculum. Apart from teaching the regular stuff, some of them have also introduced technical education in order to provide their students a high class training session. The motive – these institutions take every possible step to make sure that their students get recruited by big hotels as soon as they finish their course. Read more


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By: Ronnie Sarkar

Press Release - Binu Mathews takes over as Chief Executive Officer of IDS NEXT Business Solutions

Binu Mathews, Promoted to the post of CEO OF IDS NEXT Business Solutions

Bangalore, August 2, 2013 - IDS NEXT, global leader in ERP and total technology solutions for the hospitality and leisure industries, announces the promotion of Binu Mathews to Chief Executive Officer of IDS NEXT. This promotion comes after his three year stint with IDS NEXT where he led the effort to significantly grow the company’s revenue, steered the business to newer geographies, and deepen its presence in existing markets. IDS NEXT has also grown significantly in employee strength, and product offering.

Some of the major achievements of Binu Mathews leading up to his promotion have been his active role leadership in helping launch start-ups RezNext and RoomsTonite. He also leveraged his decades of experience to forge a host of strategic partnerships with international players like, global cloud computing company- Salesforce, revenue management software provider for the hospitality industry - Maxim, online reputation Management Company - TrustYou, and the single largest processor of electronic hotel transactions - Pegasus Solutions, and leader in innovative Business Intelligence solutions - arcplan. Read more

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Right Property Management System is Key to Your Hotel’s Success.

Exclusive Feature: Ask any hotelier and they will all agree that a hotel management system plays a key role in their hotel’s success. 

 Good hotel software enables its users to store information about guests, retrieve it to personalize the guest experience, and on the whole, ensure the guest has a wonderful stay.

At the back-end, hotel software is even more important. The front office module, point of sale, accounts receivable, banquets and conferences, restaurant module, housekeeping, inventory, HR and Payroll, along with a host of other modules and apps in a hotel software must work in an interconnected and smooth manner.

Information stored in these modules helps the management of a hotel generate important reports that facilitate planning and decision-making. Read More

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By: Jacob K.I

IDS NEXT, India's #1 Hospitality Technology Company - Hotelier India, Product Finder 2013

IDS NEXT Advantage Academy Trains Brigade Hospitality Personnel on FortuneNEXT 6i Enterprise Property Management System

IDS NEXT, global leader in ERP and total technology solutions for the hospitality and leisure industries announce the successful completion of a customized training program for personnel of Brigade Hospitality Services Ltd.

The training was organized by IDS NEXT Advantage Academy and was designed to focus on features introduced in the newest version of the enterprise class solution, FortuneNEXT 6i.

The software training was organized at IDS NEXT’s global headquarters in Bangalore and offered instruction on FortuneNEXT 6i Enterprise, with focus on Membership module and MIS Reports. Product experts from IDS NEXT walked participants through the features of each module, how these features can be used, report generation, short cuts, tip and tricks of extracting information, navigation and more.  Over 50 staff of Brigade Hospitality attended the training, which was followed by an online test, evaluation and certification.

Speaking on the training program, Varadharajan Athmanathan, Vice President, Global Customer Engagement Group of IDS NEXT Business Solutions said, “The Brigade Group likes to be ahead of the competitive curve, and we were delighted to train their staff to optimally use IDS NEXT Software. Our comprehensive and large ERP offers numerous opportunities to automate processes, store information in an accessible manner, ensure greater visibility into hotel functioning and thus enhance top management planning. This training program for the hospitality team of Brigade Group was geared to do all this and more.”

“The week long training on IDS NEXT Software was a good learning for us. We now know how we can leverage numerous reports the software offers to access a drilled down view of the club functioning. We learnt how to access over 50 reports and we can already see the difference in faster decision-making” said Gurmeet Singh, General Manager – Banquets, Brigade Hospitality. 

Said Charu Ramaiah, Woodrose Club Manager, “I found the training on the membership module most interesting, as the membership module is feature rich and allows us to better connect with our guests. We are now using a host of features that we were unaware of, and this has enhanced member satisfaction”.

IDS NEXT’S Advantage Academy was set up in 2011 as part of our Customer Engagement initiative. “We are a market leader in Hotel ERP and empowering hotel/club staff to efficiently use every feature of our range of enterprise class software is our aim. We plan to continue training our customers to ensure, we have highly equipped software users, who leverage the software to the maximum and deliver value to both the hotel and guests.” said Mr Athmanathan.

About IDS NEXT

IDS NEXT, is a global leader in providing ERP and total technology solutions for the Hospitality and Leisure industries. With a track record that spans 25+ years, we has earned the trust of

over 3200 customers globally, and have with a strong presence in 40 countries across South Asia, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa. IDS NEXT’s clients include Ramada Hotels, ETA Star, Ramee, Choice Hotels International, Swissôtel, Aitkens Spence, John Keells Group, Sarovar Hotels & Resorts, ITC Fortune Group, Royal Orchid Hotels, Pride Hotels, and many more.

Our portfolio of  capabilities include, Software Development, Mobility Solutions, Total Technology Solutions and a range of next generation software products that  address every segment of the hospitality industry, including independent hotels, chain hotels, business hotels, resorts, clubs, service apartments, limited service, spas, cruise liners and restaurants.

For more information about us visit http://idsnext.com/

About Brigade Hospitality

Brigade Hospitality Services Limited (BHSL) is a subsidiary of Brigade Group. It was established in June 2004 to focus on the hospitality industry. BHSL’s range of operations currently encompass professionally managed serviced residences, clubs, convention centres, hotels & resorts

Brigade Homestead Serviced Residences are located in prime locations across Bangalore city offering "a home away from home" experience with fully furnished service apartments. The lifestyle clubs - Woodrose, Regent, Galaxy and Augusta - are part of large residential enclaves, created to provide relaxing and rejuvenating facilities for all its members. The MLR Convention Centres, located in J.P. Nagar and Whitefield are ideal venues to host corporate, social and cultural events. The Grand Mercure and Sheraton brands have been launched in India for the first time by the Brigade Group. The company has also tied up with other world-class international hotel operators for its business hotels, luxury resorts and spas.

For more information, visit http://www.brigadehospitality.com/index.html

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