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There’s no question: the pandemic has ravaged the hospitality industry and thrown unexpected challenges at hotels all over the world. But there’s hope. When lockdowns and travel bans ended, leisure travel saw promising pick-up. Af...
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October 20, 2020
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There’s no question: the pandemic has ravaged the hospitality industry and thrown unexpected challenges at hotels all over the world. But there’s hope. When lockdowns ...
Atomize believes that Revenue Managers are competent and smart people, and their unique competence and valuable time should not be wasted on setting prices - but rather ...
My father is 80 years old. In 2004, he moved from London to the slightly-more-sunny Isle of Wight and opened a 15-room Bed & Breakfast. A few years ago, I was visiting ...
Until recently, the concept of Contactless in the field of hospitality was an unimaginable topic. Due to the recent global pandemic, hoteliers had to start looking for ...
COVID-19 forced many hotels and other operating businesses to change their day-to-day habits and adapt to new standards. The hotel business that we thought always ...
Simplified room inventory enables online sales Commonly, hotels manage their rooms revenue at the base of room types or room categories. Over the past years – and still ...
It's check-in time. After another year, apaleo reached back out to Made In Louise, a charming boutique hotel at the forefront of the hotel technology landscape. Martin ...
Here at apaleo, we’re big fans of Dialoog Hotels, a pioneering Indonesian group offering simple sophistication with smart and uncomplicated accommodation, and also our ...
In apaleo’s 10 Questions series, we take an inside look at how innovative hoteliers are running their businesses, from how they got in to the hotel industry, to facing ...
DE Imagine if every time you wanted to install a new app on your smartphone, you had to call the maker of your phone to ask about it, then schedule a date far in the ...
The hotel PMS has been around for about 50 years. That’s HALF A CENTURY. That’s as old as the Beatle’s last album Let It Be, Walt Disney World, Watergate, and Amtrak. ...
The latest trend in the Nordics is likely to arrive at a destination near you: the staffless hotel. Scandinavian hotel chains such as PLACE TO SLEEP have discovered the ...
Unless you’re living a version of The Truman Show, you’ve seen the word recession floating around the web-o-sphere recently. The Marriotts and Hyatts of the world have ...
DE Opening a new hotel can be a challenge even for the most experienced hoteliers. Location, design, employees, and operations are just the beginning of things to ...
Hiya! Hope you're all safe in these not-so-awesome times. It feels weird writing this (mostly)serious post with so much uncertainty. Here in Germany, we are in ...
New partnership allows hotels to improve the digital guest journey all within their favorite messaging app, without losing any of the data in the PMS Standard check-in ...
DE These days, we tend talk about cybersecurity far less than we talk about melting icebergs or political problems or plastic straws. And, of course. Those are things we ...
We've teamed up with Cendyn to take an in-depth look at where hotels should store guest profile data for optimal personalization, guest services and more Exceptional ...
Tamara Markotic will join the company to run the apaleo app community apaleo, the award-winning technology company that is revolutionizing the hospitality industry, ...
After launching its PMS platform and officially beginning sales at ITB 2019, apaleo, the most open property management system, has announced today that it has reached a ...
AUF DEUTSCH New project with ibis Styles enhances the digital guest journey and improves internal operations Most hoteliers know that getting a new property management ...
What’s Included in the Hotel Relief Package♥? As hotels begin to reopen, staff are being asked to face completely new responsibilities and put themselves on the front ...
apaleo ist die Property Management Plattform hinter Limehome, STAYERY und Stay KooooK - den Shooting Stars auf der SO!APART 2019 – und unterstützt die digitale ...
Our people make apaleo and its culture pretty darn unique. So, here's a chance to get to know them! We chatted with Estivaliz, our onboarding queen. She told us how she ...
Hotel tech lists—Hotel Tech Must-Haves for 2020 and What All Hotels Need in Order to Succeed Next Year—are like the sloganned-out t-shirts everyone’s wearing to the gym ...
Two point five million! Well, nearly 2.5 million. That’s how many apps the Google Play store has. Apple’s store came in second at 1.8 million apps. For perspective, 1.69 ...
Hoteliers können den kompletten Check-in-Prozess nun endlich rechtssicher digital abbilden. Cloud-PMS-Anbieter apaleo hat seinen Kunden schon früh die digitale ...
apaleo’s intuitive and open property management system allows for self-setup, onboarding and ultimate connectivity UK-based Nestor, a hospitality business delivering ...
Samuel Braun, die mit drei Häusern in Berlin vertreten sind, gab heute bekannt, dass es sein zentrales Property Management System (PMS) von einem geschlossenen ...
When Volkswagen introduced the Beetle to the United States in the 1950s, it did it with a revolutionary and wildly successful ad campaign: “Think Small.” Original “Think ...
Well, here we are with a widespread global emergency on our hands (no hand washing pun intended). While an economic downturn was predicted for this year, an abrupt shut ...
Our people make apaleo and its culture pretty darn unique. So, here's a chance to get to know them! We chatted with Gabriel, our Digital Marketing Superman. He told us ...
DE New partnership with apaleo enables STAYERY to connect all systems for the ultimate guest experience Berlin-based boutique apartment brand, STAYERY, announced today ...
Our people make apaleo and its culture pretty darn unique. So, here's a chance to get to know them! We chatted with Stephan, our CTO and co-founder of apaleo. He told us ...
apaleo, das weltweit offenste Property Management System, hat nach der Einführung seiner Property Management Plattform und dem offiziellen Verkaufsstart auf der ITB 2019 ...
Our people make apaleo and its culture pretty darn unique. So, here's a chance to get to know them! We chatted with Antonios, our hotelier gone tech guy! He told us ...
Munich, 12. August 2020 – Digital revolution in the shortest possible time: Munich-based technology company hotelbird and open platform provider apaleo have put together ...
Die Hotelkette Signature Hotels ist seit 2010 im deutschen Markt aktiv. Mit heute fünf Häusern in Norddeutschland, davon zwei im lebendigen Szeneviertel St. Georg in ...
Samuel Braun, with three properties in Berlin, announced today that it is switching its core property management system (PMS) from a closed legacy system to apaleo, the ...
Mit einem Rollout in Rekordzeit rüstet sich Moin! Hotel mit apaleo für die Zukunft Moin! Hotels - eine Gruppe mit Vier-Sterne-Hotels und -Wohnungen in Norddeutschland - ...
MUNICH 9 June 2020: Launched by apaleo, the Hotel Relief Package is a joint pledge from 30+ hotel technology providers to combat hotels’ urgent need to use digital ...
We think it’s cool that lots of tech providers are talking about support. It’s about time, considering that support is the number one gripe among hotels when it comes to ...
Das intuitive und offene Property Management System von apaleo erlaubt das selbständige Aufsetzen, On-Boarding und vollständige Konnektivität. Nestor, ein britisches ...
New feature saves time by incorporating all hotel systems and data directly within apaleo's PMS. One tab, and you’re done. It happens all too often that we start off the ...
Maybe you’re getting sick of hearing about Millennial travelers but sit tight because they still matter — a lot. Millennials take more annual leisure trips than any ...
Our people make apaleo and its culture pretty darn unique. So, here's a chance to get to know them! We chatted with Martin, our COO and co-founder of apaleo. He told us ...
Limehome uses apaleo to manage its properties and connect custom-developed systems Limehome, a collection of 19 properties throughout Germany and Austria, announced ...
DE Partnership with apaleo enables Catrina Experience to smoothly run its properties. Catrina Experience, a brand with four properties, announced today that it has ...
apaleo property management system enables full automation for the first capsule hotel in Switzerland capsule hotel opened its first innovative hotel in Luzern, ...
Three-star hotel group Signature Hotels has been active in the German market since 2010. With five hotels in northern Germany, located in the lively and trendy districts ...
Our people make apaleo and its culture pretty darn unique. So, here's a chance to get to know them! We chatted with Gabriel, our Design guy! He told us about his love ...
DE apaleo PMS enables automation, flexibility and provides more time for hotel staff to focus on delivering outstanding guest’s experience The process of selecting and ...
DE apaleo’s open property management system provides the ultimate flexibility, automation, and ability for the hotel to focus on delivering outstanding guest experiences ...
apaleo expands to Asia after signing new hotel chain. Full service Indonesian chain Dialoog Hotels has announced that it will be moving away from its current property ...
AUF DEUTSCH With a lightning-fast rollout, Hiisi Homes introduces apaleo’s property management system as the core of its entire technology stack Finland based serviced ...
Laut Bericht vom 24. September 2019 hat das Kabinett grünes Licht für den digitalen Meldeschein gegeben. Digitaler Meldeschein verspricht Entlastung in Millionenhöhe "Es ...
Patrick Fisher of Thomson Reuters notes that, “As technologies become more and more pervasive across industries and functions, companies as varied as Goldman Sachs, ...
Our people make apaleo and its culture pretty darn unique. So, here's a chance to get to know them! We chatted with Alan, co-founder and business developer of apaleo. He ...
AUF DEUTSCH apaleo PMS replaces core system at SV Hotel’s own branded property, connecting its entire software stack SV Hotel, a selection of 10 hotels throughout ...
Markus Veikkolainen, Partner at Hiisi Homes, is an innovator. He's taken a bold, technology-first approach to running his collection of 11 (and counting...) serviced ...
Heutzutage sprechen wir viel über schmelzende Eisberge und Plastikstrohhalme – aber nicht über Cybersicherheit. Klar, zur Bekämpfung von Umweltproblemen kann jeder ...
Our people make apaleo and its culture pretty darn unique. So, here's a chance to get to know them! We chatted with our Marketing Manager, Katarina. She told us a little ...
AUF DEUTSCH Munich, Germany – apaleo, the world’s most open and connected property management system (PMS), has partnered with SiteMinder, the global hotel industry’s ...
When it launched in 2007, the iPhone was a derivative of the iPod, designed to “mimic the features of the iPod while allowing for increased functionality” like phone ...
Partnership with apaleo enables Mirabilis Group to smoothly implement its vision UK based property management company, Mirabilis Group announced today that it has ...
apaleo + CODE2ORDER whitepaper explores how updating digital processes can transform the guest experience Digitalization is changing guests’ expectations rapidly. If ...
...and we all...agree? To leave a legacy was once considered something rich, something good. A legacy might be an endowment, an heirloom, a bequest, or a history of ...
apaleo’s treat-a-day giveaway is full of surprises from the most innovative companies in hospitality apaleo, the ultra-connected and simplest-to-use property management ...
We like to learn from the best! That’s why we sat down with Thibault Catala, managing director of Catala Consulting who knows a thing or two about hospitality industry, ...
As part of apaleo’s founder circle, Ady will be responsible for brand positioning and strategic marketing apaleo, the award-winning technology startup that is ...
Why monolithic architecture faces extinction and the lean, micro-service model that will replace it If you had a pulse in the '90s, you most definitely saw Jurassic ...
Alan O’Riordan joins the company as a shareholder and will be responsible for business development in the UK and beyond apaleo, the award-winning technology startup ...
Our people make apaleo and its culture pretty darn unique. So, here's a chance to get to know them! We chatted with Peter, our software architect, product owner and one ...
For hotels, switching to a new system isn't always easy, especially when it comes to the hotel's property management system (PMS), the core system at any hotel. Here's ...
We’re all supposed to have a budget, no doubt. But it isn’t always easy. Living expenses aside, there’s Netflix and Spotify and Audible and Hulu and Strava and so on and ...
The shift away from out-of-the-box hotel management solutions Until recently, hotels - and most enterprise businesses, for that matter - had been stuck with one singular ...
We work fine on our own, but think we’re better together. That’s why apaleo integrates with all kinds of rockin’ technology. In apaleo’s app stars series, we talk with ...
Originally published on HospitalityNet here. Most hoteliers agree that the cloud is the way to go. This is not new. They believed in the cloud for five to ten years ...
The last time you vetted a tech company, you surely received evidence of the company’s commitment to customer service. Likely in the form of stats like downtime and ...
AUF DEUTSCH Here's a terrifying fun fact: some insects have superpowers. Take scorpions, for example. They can flatten their bodies to the size of a small coin, ...
Following rigorous competition, EyeforTravel Europe has awarded apaleo its 2018 Startup Award during its conference in London. The leading innovators in travel ...
We work fine on our own, but think we’re better together. That’s why apaleo integrates with all kinds of rockin’ technology. In apaleo’s app stars series, we talk with ...
Rolling out in record time, Moin! Hotel upgrades to apaleo’s future-facing technology Moin! A collection of four-star hotels and apartments in Northern Germany, ...
The industry has been buzzing about the challenges of becoming GDPR compliant for some time now. The deadline came and went on May 25, and so far, our inboxes were the ...
apaleo Launches Cloud PMS In Record Time apaleo, the creators of the Open Hospitality Cloud, announced the completion of multiple milestones. Not only did they complete ...
It's true. Below is a sneak peek of the email that our a-listers received this morning, as well as a tip to get on the list. What. A. Weekend. We're trying to contain ...
It's pretty terrible when a guest runs off without paying for their room. It’s also not very enjoyable or time efficient (for your guests or for your staff) to manually ...
Is it possible for a hotel to find and connect all the right technology to really nail the digital guest journey within a couple of weeks? Sounds complicated, but it ...
How One Hotel Set Up a New PMS and Fully Integrated Revenue Management Tool in A Matter Of Minutes Ask many hoteliers about their biggest technology headaches, and they ...
An ecosystem for the hotel industry that integrates a true cloud PMS and an extensive API apaleo today announced the introduction of the Open Hospitality Cloud — the ...
Technology has changed guest expectations, making it more difficult than ever for hotels to understand how to best cater to their guests. This pick your adventure style ...
apaleo, the company creating the Open Hotel Management Platform and Eco System has announced the completion of its first round of funding. Founder and chairman Martin ...
How selecting the right PMS can save hotels time and reduce unnecessary costs Someone recently told me that humans spend approximately six months of their lives waiting ...
Let’s face it hotel technology isn’t a supporting player in the guest experience anymore. It is an essential part of every guest journey, an integral aspect of each step ...
apaleo, the innovative Munich based company developing a flexible and scalable cloud PMS fully equipped with a 2-way API and a store that delivers pre-integrated apps ...
How hotels can reduce employee turnover by upping their technology game Every hotelier knows that there’s not enough love to go around, what with all different kinds of ...
In-room, distribution, messaging, reservations, revenue management, chat, operational… the list of technologies that occupy hoteliers these days could go on and on. ...
How to improve the guest journey by removing barriers in hospitality tech While it is an obvious over-exaggeration to compare Ronald Reagan's famous "Tear Down This ...
Kevin considers himself a pretty smart guy. Last Sunday, he stayed up late watching Game of Thrones. Tired but amped up from the action, he got on Amazon. One weird ...
How to build a tech stack based on what your guests need (instead of just what’s available) Don’t lie; you know you’ve done it. I sure have. The hotel breakfast buffet. ...
Baby-proofing is big biz. But why? The truth is that not that many children stick their fingers in sockets and get burned. Sticking those covers in outlets is insurance ...
Facebook’s old motto to “move fast and break things” became a mantra for many of today’s fast-growing startups. While moving fast is crucial for technology startups to ...
It isn't always easy building a product from scratch. Before going to work on apaleo, we discussed in great detail how we wanted to build our product. Join this meetup ...
With technology, there is “what it does”—the functionality—and then there’s “how it does it,” as in how fast, how accurate, what the interface looks like, and so forth. ...
Are you taking the right actions to make sure that your hotel’s data is secure? There are security measures and standards in place to ensure that you and your guests ...
“The most successful technological innovation should feel so natural to the user that it’s almost completely invisible. We only notice things when the user experience is ...
You know what’s pretty terrible? When a guest runs off without paying for their room. It’s also not very enjoyable or time efficient (for your guests or for your staff) ...
The cost and time invested in interfaces between legacy PMS and third-party systems have plagued the hospitality industry for years. It’s time to demand a better way.Ask ...