Importance of Smart Hospitality Technology for Hotels in India

Technology no doubt has impacted the hospitality industry in a positive way. Right hotel management system can help hotel business grow manifold. Adoption of right fit technology solution allows hoteliers to ensure enhanced operational capabilities. Users can also leverage hotel software to save on operational costs and towards providing better services to their guests.

Indian hotel sector is doing well and current trends represent a positive outlook in coming years. Currently, over 29,000 premium hotel rooms are under construction and they will be added to the country’s inventory over next six years. Many believe that today’s advanced hotel management system is one of the key factors driving the industry growth.

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In today’s highly competitive market, hoteliers should not look at the investment on hotel management system or Hotel PMS as an added operational cost. Plus, they should do a thorough comparison between various products available in the market. They should review products from a market leader with unmatched domain expertise and look at what operational efficiencies the technology can bring in. For hoteliers, they should evaluate and adopt products and solutions including Hotel Software and other value added solutions from a trusted hospitality technology provider like IDS Next to gain competitive advantage.

Integrated Hotel ERP

Today’s smart hoteliers are no longer looking at a hotel property management system that comes with disparate modules. So, we have now Hotel ERP that is highly integrated and comes with 13 operationally essential modules running on a single data base. It helps users to manage data effectively with less effort. It also makes the process of information sharing easier across all departments.

Our Hotel ERP or hotel management system is the most user-friendly hotel software available in the market. Users can perform multiple operations in a single window. Our FortuneNEXT 6i Suite of Hotel ERP also provides user-definable reports across modules. This allows users to define their own formats for reports using their own permutation and combination.

We have integrated our Hotel Software with a smart Channel Manager Solution. This integration helps our Hotel ERP users to better distribute their inventory across multiple channels. It aids them sell more rooms and increase occupancy which leads to increased revenue.

Save Cost

With our integrated Hotel ERP in place, hoteliers don’t have to invest more to buy additional software. Moreover, Food & Beverage Costing and Materials Management module of the Hotel ERP helps users tally total cost of consumption against F&B revenue. This will help them reduce raw material costs.

Enhanced Operational Capabilities

Our Hotel ERP comes with FortuneNEXT iAlert, which lets the users enhance operational capabilities. The solution sends alerts managers and staff on events on events like VIP Check-in, complaints and high bills etc. It also allows hotels communicate and stay in touch with their guests by sending out SMS alerts.

Serve Guests Efficiently

FortuneNEXT 6i Hotel ERP users can significantly enhance guest experience at their properties by leveraging our mobility solutions like Easy Check-in and Easy Dine. While Easy Check-in helps hotels reduce the guest check-in time to a great extent, Easy Dine, the e-menu app provides ultimate dining experience to their guests.

Receive bookings from across the globe via SkyRes

For chain hotels operating in India, SkyRes, our cloud based central reservation system provides the ultimate platform to receive bookings from across the globe. SkyRes allows the chain hotel’s central reservation office to assign travel agents (including OTAs) separate log-ins to receive booking from a growing number of audiences. Even the hotel’s CRO can assign log-ins to Corporate Organizations and empower them to book rooms as per their requirements.

As the Indian hotel industry moves towards a more competitive business environment, it is vital that hoteliers adopt the precise hospitality technology infrastructure. They must invest on technology to ensure seamless process automation.

Debi Prasad Sarangi handles Corporate Communications at Ids Next Business Solutions, a global leader in the domain of hospitality technology solutions.