The best steaks in NZ

Want to know who makes the best cutoff steak in the country? Check out this hospitality business.co.nz article to find out.

The BranderyMay 18, 2015Hospitality NewsComment

$8 billion resort closer to reality

Check out this great hotel management.com.au article on the Aquis Resort. All $8 billion worth of it!

Dougall LoveMay 15, 2015HotelComment

A night in the bush at Waitakere Estate

Check out this NZ Herald article about one of our clients - The Waitakere Estate in Auckland.

Dougall LoveMay 13, 2015Clarity Client, Clarity Hospitality Software Solutions, Waitakere EstateComment

Australian influencers tell their own South Island story

Six Australian social media influencers were given the chance to tell their own South Island story when Tourism New Zealand hosted them on a journey through two of the South's 'Great Journeys' in March. Supporting the ' Every day a different journey' campaign, which was launched in February, the popular Australian influencers got to experience two of the five itineraries featured on newzealand.com, sharing their stories with a combined total of more than 700,000 fans along the way. "We want Australians to know that New Zealand is easy to get around and offers plenty of travel experiences that they won't get at home, and which are quite unique to New Zealand."

Dougall LoveMay 8, 2015New Zealand TourismComment

Clarity Hotel Manager - Processing manual charges to a guest bill

If you often find yourself entering a stack of manual charges to guest bill you will be happy to know that ‘Quick Post’ will do the same job in less than half the time.

Dougall LoveApril 29, 2015Clarity Hotel ManagerComment

Infographical tourism goodness

Check out this infographic for an update on the increase in International visitors from the same period last year.

Dougall LoveApril 28, 2015Comment

Accomnews Article - Impressive growth in Maori tourism, by Pania Tyson-Nathan

Not so long ago Māori tourism experiences were measured by a category called 'culture' along with museums and the like. In a satisfaction survey one of the questions asked was 'have you rowed a waka?'

Of course we know you don't row a waka, you paddle! One of the responses was (I) thought Māori lived in grass huts and wore grass skirts, so our images and the narrative used did little to feed the curiosity of potential manuhiri (visitors).

Dougall LoveApril 28, 2015 Comment

Clarity and Orca - Accounting for Apartment owners

ORCA’s Hospitality module includes full Owners Accounting. It uses the revenues generated from Clarity Hotel Manager’s guest billing, via the unique Caché multi-instance capacity, to make the accounting nightmare a thing of the past. Clarity Hospitality is proud to team with Time Cost Solutions to bring this solution to the Hospitality industry.

Dougall LoveApril 24, 2015Clarity Hotel Manager, Clarity Hospitality Software SolutionsComment

Royal NZ Yacht Squadron chooses Clarity Event Manager

In 2014 the club decided to implement more focus on making the facilities available to corporates, organisations and people needing a quality venue for events, conferences and meetings.One of the early steps was to implement Clarity Event Manager.

The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is enjoying unprecedented use of its excellent facilities and location. It is now common to see weddings, corporate events, meetings and functions happening on most days of the week. Clarity Hospitality Software Solutions is proud to be part of the Royal NZ Yacht Squadrons success story.

Dougall LoveApril 17, 2015Clarity Event Manager, Clarity Hospitality Software SolutionsComment

NZ Herald Article - Golden summer for visitors sees record hotel occupancy

Occupancy at Auckland hotels reached a record high in what has been described as a golden summer for tourism.

Figures released today by Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (Ateed) show hotel occupancy reached new levels with domestic and international visitors increasing the occupancy rate to 83 per cent for the year ending February.

An additional 77,000 hotel rooms were sold in the year ending February compared with the previous 12 months. These additional rooms, coupled with an increase in room rates, resulted in $27.9 million more spent on Auckland hotel rooms compared with the previous year.

Dougall LoveApril 14, 2015Hospitality, Hospitality NewsComment

Article - Queenstown voted top destination in NZ and South Pacific

Queenstown has been named the number one destination in both New Zealand and the South Pacific in TripAdvisor’s 2015 Travellers’ Choice Awards. As well as taking out the top spot in the South Pacific and New Zealand, Queenstown has also been rated as one of the world’s top 25 destinations.

This is the third consecutive year Queenstown has won New Zealand’s top destination but it is the first time the four season lake and alpine resort has taken the title of best South Pacific region.

Dougall LoveApril 7, 2015Queenstown, Hospitality News Comment

Apple Accepts Clarity Housekeeping Mobile App

The Clarity Housekeeping Mobile App is installed on an i-phone or i-pad and interfaces to the revised Housekeeping module of Clarity Hotel Manager. It gives Room Attendants their individual room cleaning schedule as well as providing Supervisors with overall views and tools.