HOSPITALITY TRENDS
Optii Solutions | May 05, 2022
Optii Solutions announced its partnership with Rodd Hotels & Resorts. Rodd Hotels & Resorts will adopt Optii Solutions technology across all seven properties throughout Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
As is the case with many other hospitality organizations experiencing labor shortages, Rodd Hotels engaged in technology to assist optimize its existing staff and provide them with the tools necessary to accomplish more with less. Rodd Hotels will be able to enable its personnel to effectively manage, automate, optimize, and simplify hotel operations via the use of intuitive technology with the comprehensive Optii Solution.
Optii Service will enable Rodd Hotels to optimize labor in order to increase response times, decrease downtime, and maintain a balanced workload, all of which will assist in overcoming the obstacles associated with working with lean teams. Optii Chat enables employees to interact efficiently across departments and properties, enabling the front and back of house to form a dynamic link.
“In today’s operating environment, where hospitality continues to recover from the pandemic and is faced with labor shortages and continuing challenges around unpredictable occupancies, it is so important that hotels have full visibility over the productivity of their teams, from housekeeping through to service and front of house.”
-Katherine Grass, CEO, Optii Solutions,
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TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY
Mindtree | November 01, 2021
Mindtree, a global technology services and digital transformation company, launched Digital Health Passport for Travel, a solution that provides a smarter, safer and smoother experience to global travelers in navigating frequently changing travel regulations and restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The solution offers travelers an easy, quick and secure way to comply with country-specific entry requirements and protocols. It enables them to locate COVID-19 testing providers, schedule tests and make sure that test results meet their destination's criteria. It also facilitates swifter approvals by allowing travelers to digitally store, manage, validate and share test results, vaccine certifications, self-attestations, travel authorization forms and other travel documents.
"Amid a wide range of rapidly evolving travel health standards because of the pandemic with no single authority to harmonize them, travelers worldwide are dealing with a high degree of confusion and ambiguity,Mindtree's digital health passport for travel is a comprehensive and long-term solution that addresses multiple aspects of travel-readiness and drives seamless, contactless and paperless travel health workflows. This makes it easier for travelers as well as authorities to make informed decisions, speed up processes and minimize health risks."
-Venu Lambu, Executive Director and President, Global Markets, at Mindtree
Built using Hyperledger Fabric blockchain technology, this platform-based white label offering can work in tandem with the existing apps of travel suppliers, saving them the time, cost and effort required to engage with new partners for every change. The real-time, adaptive solution can be readily integrated with boarding gate readers, check-in kiosks, border management systems, e-gates and standalone identity desktops. It can also be easily plugged into Evernym's verifiable credentials platform, Sherpa's visa and travel rules API, International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Timatic passenger verification database, and Smartvel's AI-powered travel solutions.
Mindtree's Digital Health Passport for Travel has enormous potential to boost travel safety as well as traveler confidence in the new normal," said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director at Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager, Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity for the Linux Foundation. "We are pleased that Mindtree has chosen Hyperledger Fabric's modular, plug-and-play and versatile design for the solution to deliver speed, efficiency and performance at scale. As an industry-wide open-source initiative, Hyperledger Fabric also enables the solution to harness the latest innovation in blockchain technology. It is great to see Hyperledger technology being put to work to provide travelers with easy movements and uninterrupted flows, and help airlines, airports and authorities better meet regulatory safety requirements.
In addition to airlines, hotels, cruise lines, airports, government agencies and car rental firms, the solution can also be used by companies to monitor and manage workplace safety when offices reopen.
About Mindtree
Mindtree [NSE: MINDTREE] is a global technology consulting and services company, helping enterprises marry scale with agility to achieve competitive advantage. "Born digital," in 1999 and now a Larsen & Toubro Group Company, Mindtree applies its deep domain knowledge to more than 260 enterprise client engagements to break down silos, make sense of digital complexity and bring new initiatives to market faster. We enable IT to move at the speed of business, leveraging emerging technologies and the efficiencies of Continuous Delivery to spur business innovation. Operating in 24 countries across the world, we're consistently regarded as one of the best places to work, embodied every day by our winning culture made up of over 29,700 entrepreneurial, collaborative and dedicated "Mindtree Minds".
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DESTINATION AND TOURISM
Terranea Resort | May 30, 2022
Terranea Resort invites guests to enjoy its rich natural habitat that spans over 102 acres. It is perched atop oceanfront coastal bluffs on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The resort has a variety of special offerings designed to entertain, educate, and explore the surrounding marine protected environment to celebrate World Oceans Day.
World Oceans Day is an annual event and presents an opportunity to unite the community to support for the sustainable management of the world’s oceans. It also raises awareness of the impact of individual actions on the ocean. Guests can be a part of eco-driven initiatives in partnership with Marine Mammal Care Center and International Bird Rescue. These organizations bring awareness to the importance of safeguarding and protecting the ocean for everyone to enjoy throughout June.
Guests can support the Marine Mammal Care Center while booking their stay at www.Terranea.com. Guests can go kayaking on the Californian coastline with marine biologist and Chief Operations and Education Officer of Marine Mammal Care Center, Dave Bader. He will provide the guests with invaluable knowledge on endangered cetaceans and the conservation of the local marine life. A portion of the proceeds from each tour will be donated to the Marine Mammal Care Center. Guests aged 8 and up can enjoy this activity on June 4 | 7:30am – 10:30am | $250 per person donated directly to Marine Mammal Care Center. Tour needs to be booked in advance and is weather dependent. All equipment is provided.
Guests, ages 8 and up can go on a forest clean-up kayak tour to help maintain the coastline by collecting litter along the pristine Marine Protected Area of the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Tour details: June 11 | 9:30am & 11:30am | $100 per person.
Here is a list of other activities that the guests can enjoy:
Educational ocean activities- June 11 | 11:00am – 2:00pm
Nelson'sSea Harvest Workshop- Ages 21 and up. Advance reservations are required at www.terranea.com/experiences. June 11 | 10:00am | Sea Salt Conservatory | $80 per person
Self-guided Nature Walk and Scavenger Hunt June 1-30 | Map available at pointe discovery
Captain Gray Whale Cookies June 1 – 30
Visit Terranea’s website (terranea.com/celebrate) for more details.
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