Is your business struggling when it comes to managing those important events? What is it that’s keeping some businesses ahead in this never ending rat race? With today’s meetings and events becoming more and more complex and demanding, its easy to get caught with your pants down.
Lucky for you there is a hypothetical belt. It’s a software, and it’s called Clarity Event Manager.
Read MoreIt seems to have been a good month for Clarity Hospitality Software clients. This is the second big announcement this month regarding hospitality awards. Earlier this month we congratulated the CQ Quality Hotel Wellington and Quality Hotel Parnell, both of whom received the 2015 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award. Now again we congratulate two further hotels with Clarity Hospitality Software in use for becoming finalists in the 2015 Hospitality New Zealand Awards for Excellence in the 'Best Accommodation' category.
Read MoreAs large as the hotel industry has become and as steady as it has grown over the years, the technology powering it has not kept pace. Innovation has come from companies focusing on the consumer side of travel.
Read MoreOn behalf of Clarity we would like to congratulate two clients on their recent successes.
Read MoreAlthough OTAs ranked higher than hotels when it came to "influence of interaction on satisfaction with a brand" as well as "using/buying the brand", the hotel sector came on top when consumers were asked which organisations they trust.
Read MoreIts hard to imagine getting anywhere without some sort of gps now when 10 years ago most of us were using printed maps. They did the job but were definitely lacking the zoom feature. Nowadays smart phones are in the finger tips of every man, woman, and infant. Making it possible to surf the net, sudoku, and make hotel bookings via app from the privacy of your own bathroom...
Read MoreThe hotel industry is urging the U.S. government to reject the proposed merger between Expedia and Orbitz Worldwide, arguing the combined company would control the online booking market and be able to impose higher costs on the industry. The Justice Department is reviewing the $1.3-billion transaction, which was announced in February and came just weeks after Expedia completed a takeover of another online travel site, Travelocity.
Read MoreThe surge in visitors from Tourism New Zealand’s key international markets continues with holiday arrivals the highest ever for the month of June and total annual arrivals peaking, just short of three million international visitors.
Figures released today by Statistics New Zealand show total visitor arrivals for the year up nine per cent and holiday arrivals up 10 per cent, compared with the same period last year.
Read MoreNew Zealand's tourism sector is on track to overtake dairy as New Zealand's biggest export earner and the country will soon crack three million visitors a year.
Tourism has recovered from the hit dealt by the global economic crisis and for the past three years has enjoyed strong growth.
Prime Minister John Key, who is also Tourism Minister, expects this summer to be the country's biggest for the visitor industry.
"It's a growth sector and there's a lot more left in the tank," Key said.
Read MoreRecently I was talking with one of our clients, yes we do that, about bringing guests to their website to book and bringing them back the next time as well. The discussion was around the cost of OTA bookings, but he made a statement that really got my attention.
He said “It’s not so much the cost of the OTA’s as the fact that we don’t hold the Guest relationship, they do.”
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Read MoreThe home-sharing specialist was valued at $25 billion in a recent funding round. Is it really worth that much?
Home-sharing juggernaut Airbnb reached a jaw-dropping valuation of $25 billion in its most recent funding round. That figure left some observers scratching their heads as the company is projected to bring in just $900 million in revenue this year and is still operating at a loss.
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