New Age Hospitality Technology Solutions for Tanzania’s Flourishing Hotel Industry

With several new age hospitality technology solutions in place, both hotels and their guests can witness many benefits. Hospitality Technology solutions in the form of integrated Hotel ERP / Hotel PMS, distribution platform and central reservation system etc have the ability to transform the hotel business in many ways and provide users the most required competitive edge.

Hotel industry in Tanzania is certainly on the right track. With many national parks and gorgeous coastal islands, Tanzania has the right potential to attract record number of tourists in coming years. Similarly, to provide them ultimate travel experience, the Tanzanian government is planning to add several quality hotels to its existing inventory. Tanzania has recognized the tourism sector as ‘Lead Sector’ and Tanzanian Investment Centre offers incentives for the development of new hotels.

According to recent JLL report, with around 26 quality hotels supplying nearly 2430 rooms, Dar-es-Salaam has around 35% of the country’s current room supply. Between 2000 to 2015, the city recorded an average 6% per annum growth in hotel room supply. During the same period, upscale segment registered a growth rate of 10% per annum. It is expected that, Dar-es-Salaam will see around 8% per annum growth in its room supply between 2016 to 2020 with nearly 1421 keys already in pipeline. The report also suggests that with 6 new hotels scheduled to open, the branded hotel supply will make up around 68% by 2020.

Importance of Hospitality Technology Solutions

For hoteliers operating in Tanzania, it is utmost important to increase revenue, reduce costs & improve operations to offer enhanced guest experience. No hotel business will survive without attaining the above criterions. And, achieving all the above conditions becomes easy only when a hotel adopts the right set of hospitality technology solutions.

Always Look for Integrated Hotel ERP

Integrated Hotel ERP or Hotel PMS is a single application with all operationally required modules that runs on a single database. Information sharing process among departments and modules becomes quite easy as all the modules are tightly integrated with each other. Truly integrated hotel software can reduce data entry, ensure information consistency and simplified operations across hotel departments.

Another significant advantage with integrated Hotel ERP is that your hotel’s IT Manager is interacting with just one software vendor to ensure the hotel software is up and running at all times. With seamless integration between one module and the next, it is easier for your IT manager to locate issues if and when they arise, and fix them almost immediately. This apart, a Hotel ERP should allow users to view information like quick balances of guests, statistical information and hotel position at a glance. Moreover, it should provide users Hot Keys for easy and quick access of frequently used options such as room status, ledger balances, occupancy statistics, pending purchase orders etc. A smart and highly integrated Hotel ERP should be secured, scalable, and flexible so that it can easily simplify your hotel processes.