Hospitality Technology to Aid Saudi Arabia’s Growing Hotel Industry

Author: Debiprasad Sarangi

The future of Saudi Arabian tourism and hotel industry looks good. Reason – the kingdom is doing well in both religious and business tourism. Mecca and Medina, two holy cities attract religious travelers. At the same time Riyadh, Jeddah and Al Khobar are known as prominent commercial destinations and attract a major portion of business travelers.

As the number of tourists visiting the country grows year on year, Saudi Arabia has also become a favorite destination for hotel construction. All prominent cities in the country are witnessing a large number of hotel constructions.

Hotel industry in Saudi Arabia

According to SCTA, construction of around 149 hotels will be completed across the country by 2015. Around 77% of hotels will be in Mecca and Medina

Around 16,000 new hotel rooms to be added in Riyadh and Jeddah by 2018

The need for hospitality technology

The development of hospitality technology has been at a persistent pace over last couple of years. Hotels across size and locations are often a confused lot while selecting right hospitality technology for their requirements. However, it has been proved that integrated hotel property management software from a trusted software vendor could help hoteliers in Saudi Arabia in this.

Since 1992, with several operationally imperative technology solutions, IDS Next has emerged as one of the prominent hotel software companies in Saudi Arabia. Our FortuneNEXT 6i Suite of hotel management system is considered as best hotel PMS software for hotels in Saudi Arabia.

As one of the leading hotel software providers in Saudi Arabia, we provide hotel management software to hotels across size and category. For instance, Saudi Arabia hotel market is dominated by a large number of upscale hotels and for them we have FortuneNEXT 6i Enterprise. This is our large hotel property management software with 12 modules that automates maximum work processes.

Similarly, for large hotels, we have FortuneNEXT 6i Professional. This large hotel management software assists users in improving productivity and performance across departments and services. As there are many branded economy hotels in the region, we have FortuneNEXT 6i Express for them, too. This is our smart hotel software for mid-sized hotels and it enables hoteliers to access all vital data pertaining to you property’s operation and performance.

We take care of your data security, too

With our hotel software implemented at the heart of hotel operations, we make sure that our clients don’t have to worry about cyber-attacks and data thefts. That’s why, our FortuneNEXT 6i Suite of Hotel ERP is PA DSS Certified. Through this certification, we assist our hotel software users to protect their guests’ credit card details from getting hacked.

We take care of your business, round the clock

This is where we score over our competitors. It is our priority to provide you uninterrupted tech assistance so that your business is up and running all the time. Should you face any downtime and technology glitch, get in touch with us via our 24/7 Technical Support Center.

Why IDS Next?

Here is why you should select IDS Next, one of the leading hotel software providers in Saudi Arabia –

Automated real-time distribution

Web Booking Engine: Attract more direct bookings via your hotel’s brand website.

Channel Manager: Connects your hotel to over 250 OTAs and GDS channels

SkyRes, Central Reservation System: Provides real-time room inventory at units of chain/group hotels

Revenue Management

Provides you actionable forecast on consumer demand

Helps you to locate sales opportunity in right market segment

Assists you in accurately price rooms

Reputation Management

Helps you to collect reviews from your recently checked out guests in a professional manner

Helps manage your hotel’s online brand value to attract more guests. This leads to enhanced occupancy and increased revenues.

If you are looking for leading hotel software providers in Saudi Arabia, you should consider leveraging IDS Next. To know more about us and to request for a free product demo, get in touch with Dinker Elayadath at dinker.elayadath@idsnext.com | +971-55-6353208.