Empowering the next generation of hoteliers to embrace their greatest asset, technology.
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Each of these trends were inevitable tech enabled shifts in the way we interact and collaborate as a species whose adoption was vastly accelerated by COVID-19.
But while rapidly changing regulation, limited staffing and required physical distancing highlighted the importance of technology to survive in the face of uncertainty, what hoteliers across the world realized is that the benefits of leveraging technology to attract more customers, communicate more seamlessly and improve efficiency stretch far beyond COVID.
👉 Download the 2021 Market Leaders Report
We created this free report packed with data driven insights, product rankings, trend analysis and tons of additional free resources to serve as a primer to all things digital to inspire HTR’s global community of hoteliers as you prepare for the recovery.
Whether you’re looking to adopt contactless checkin to make guests feel more at ease upon arrival, find a channel manager to tap into new distribution channels, upgrade to a modern PMS so you don’t have to kick the hood three times and blow on the steering wheel to check a guest in (joking…kind of) or you're just looking for a resource to share with your team to help them get more familiar with the top tech tools that are available—this report has it all.
Looking for more ways to leverage your Hotel Tech Report reviews throughout your sales and marketing to build trust with prospects? Well today's your lucky day...introducing the new customizable HTR widgets library!
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Is Your Company a Premium Member with a Subsidiary and You Want to Unlock Membership Benefits for Your Subsidiary without Purchasing a New Membership at Full Price? Premium Members can now receive discounted Premium Membership for their subsidiaries to access member features, benefits and exclusive discounts without having to purchase an entirely new membership for the separate company.
It has been brought to our attention that some users may be experiencing a site routing issue. HTR's hosting provider had an issue this morning that overwrote our DNS settings and was quickly resolved but may take up to 24-hours to propagate.
The issue has been resolved but we appreciate your patience as it may take up to 24-hours for some users to be able to access the site without the error message.
With the rollout of Premium 3.0 came lots of new benefits included with membership packages ranging from guest posting to review incentive cards, sponsored articles, advertising, lead credit and more.
One of the requests that we've received from lots of members since is the ability to have a more streamlined and centralized place to track and use their various benefits so today we're excited to rollout the all new ledger and credit system 🧮 🚀
Along with the new ledger and credits system comes a newly redesigned dashboard home page that brings a simplified view to the ways you can leverage HTR to educate buyers, build your brand and grow your install base.
In order to simplify benefit tracking, benefits can now be tracked according to the type of item that they are (eg. advertising credit, content credit, posting credit, lead credit). Credits of each type can be used interchangeably for items that require the same credit type (eg. if you purchase 30 ad credits to run a sponsored retargeting campaign, you can instead decide to use those same ad credits for a different advertising product like an eblast).
Credits will automatically accrue with your membership and be valid for use throughout the duration of your membership the same as they have been.
If you are currently a member or have purchased ala cart credits off platform before you know how much of a pain this was. Now, you can view your credit balances for each type of credit (eg. Advertising credit, Content Credit, Lead Credit) etc right from the settings tab of your vendor dashboard. The new ledger system is also integrated into Membership Plans so when your plan renews, transactions are automatically created logging the benefits that you received with your membership plan and you will see your credit accounts increase respectively in real time.
If your company has post credits available on your account you can use them to post guest posts to build your brand as a thought leader and boost the visibility of your content to reach HTR's audience of 100k+ hoteliers each month by submitting guest posts right through the vendor dashboard.
If your company has starting balances it means that either a) you have purchased items in the past that have been converted 1-to-1 into the new credits system to simplify tracking and usage or (b) you have an active membership plan that is accruing credits automatically according to your plan benefits.
Unfortunately no. The ledger system is setup to track all transactions (credit purchases and usages) on a go forward basis so any past purchases will not be viewable in the ledger. That said, you will have a starting balance transaction that will include your company's current credit balances as of the launch date of the new ledger system. If you have questions about your starting balances or past transactions please feel free to reach out via the on-site live chat and a member of the team will be happy to assist.
No, prices haven't changed. All prices are the same as they were previously, the only difference is that now you will add credits to your account that can be used interchangeably towards various items instead of having to buy a specific item giving you more flexibility.
No, your membership plan is exactly the same and includes the same benefits as always. The only difference is that you can now use use credits accrued from your benefits on other items as well. For example, let's say your plan includes 10 press releases/year which is equal to 10 post credits. If you want, you could now instead choose to use those 10 post credits towards another type of posting like Guest Posting instead.
On the one hand, HTR leads are the most highly qualified, vetted and targeted leads online guaranteeing that all leads:
That said, some clients have requested additional targeting options specifically the ability to exclude certain brands that they do not want to (or cannot) work with.
Today HTR is rolling out a new feature to be able to add additional targeting/filtering to the lead inbox by submitting up to 5 brand exclusions to add to your account so that:
Add brand filters to your account
This new benefit is now available to Premium Members (all plans) at no additional charge and non-members can add additional brand level targeting for a flat annual fee of $2500/year.
Check out the new top rated products announcement page bringing the winners of the annual HotelTechAwards front and center on HTR year round to garner more visibility and leads.
Running a hotel is hard and 2020 was the most challenging year in history.
But with every crisis comes opportunity and here at Hotel Tech Report, we've spent the last 3-months scouring the globe for the best tech products to bring your hotel back stronger than ever in 2021.
During the 3-month 2021 HotelTechAwards period, 318,466 hoteliers across 127 countries visited Hotel Tech Report and spent more than 3,000 hours contributing 10,227 verified hotel software product reviews to help you save time, make better vendor decisions and determine the best hotel tech products of the year.
HTR's community of hoteliers from the world's leading hotel companies surfaced innovative products ranging from contactless check-in solutions and next-gen guest messaging all the way to automated revenue management systems and business intelligence software.
We are excited to share with you the best hotel tech products of 2021!
View the full announcement eblast
On December 15th, the 2021 HotelTechAwards period comes to an end and all companies will have had a full 14-weeks (Sept 1-Dec 15) to earn as many points as possible per the competition scoring rubric. Please note that to ensure a fair competition for all participants, the December 15th deadline is firm and final with NO EXCEPTIONS.
Learn more about what happens on December 15th after the cutoff deadline
Check out the answers to the FAQs