Latest news of the protel hotelsoftware GmbH

March 2010 - Skillful decision making will always balance experience & intuition and facts & figures. While experience and intuition are there at your fingertips, it's the facts and figures and all the gritty details of a business that are often buried deep within a company's databases. All that information is essentially wasted if it can't somehow be gathered and presented in readily understandable formats. protel Business Intelligence extracts...

March 2010 - Everyone in marketing and PR seems to be talking about "Social Media" these days. This is true not only for publicly listed companies but also for smaller businesses and across all types of industries. How the tourism and hospitality industry in particular can profit from this marketing trend, was discussed by the participants of the latest "Hospitality@Work" round in Berlin, second of a series of events initialized by protel...

February 2010 - There´s no sign of a decline in growth for the Gold Inn AG: In 2009 alone the Berliner hotel chain acquired three hotels. And the acquisition of five more are planned this year to more than double the existing portfolio. Always working hand in hand with the Gold Inn hotels: Dortmund´s protel hotelsoftware GmbH, supporting the three- and four-star hotels with the hotel management system protel MPE since 2002.

February 2010 - The five-star hotel Lapa Palace in Lisbon is one of the most renowned hotels of the Olissippo Group. Shortly after the change of management just six months ago, the executive board agreed it is also time for a change of technology. Thus, the hotel management software used until now, will be replaced in all four hotels of the Olissippo group by the end of the year. The property management system will be implemented by the protel...

January 2010 - Pricing decisions are based on numerous internal and external factors of a business. They are generally made quickly and need to be acted upon immediately. Thus, it is not surprising that finding the right pricing strategy on a day to day basis to meet daily demands, is one of the most difficult subfields of hotel marketing. With protel Daily Rates you can conveniently change your pricing structure - and its all in one place.

January 2010 - bookatonce, the web-based hotel management system from Dortmund´s protel hotelsoftware GmbH is now available in a Spanish language version, just in time for the first tourism trade fair, the FITUR on January 20th, 2010 in Madrid. The Spanish language version opens a new market for bookatonce: With 329 million native speakers worldwide, Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world, ranking even higher than English.

January 2010 - protel hotelsoftware, Germany, and Dublin-based hotel technology and online strategy firm Bookassist announce the successful integration of the award-winning Bookassist online booking engine with the protel hotel property management system (PMS). The OTA/XML-based integration of the two systems has already been deployed across all hotels in the ARCOTEL Hotel group in Austria, Germany and Croatia.

January 2010 - One of the greatest challenges for a hotelier is making the guest feel special and valued - even on a busy day. The individual service you offer expresses your appreciation for your guests. The more guests are visiting, however, the harder it is to offer individual and personalized service and to give each guest the amount of attention they deserve.

December 2009 - Another successful deal in India by protel partner XN Hotel Systems: Red Fox Hotels, the newest Indian hotel chain, has chosen protel and Xn globalRES for its upcoming rollout of select service, economy hotels across India. Only recently Xn announced that one of the most successful hotel companies for business and leisure travellers in India, Lemon Tree Hotels, are now implementing protel MPE.

November 2009 - The 42 GmbH, protel´s long-standing partner in the north of Germany celebrates its 20th anniversary. Since 1989, the 42 GmbH combines future-oriented IT products for the hotel industry and gastronomy with a superior service concept. Managing Director Thomas Hoffspiegel and his team thereby pursue the same philosophy as protel. Thus, it is not surprising that 42 and protel have been successfully cooperating for 14 years now.

November - protel would like to congratulate A-ROSA Travemünde for their nomination as "Most Beautiful Wellness Resort Worldwide". Readers of the travel magazine VIP International Traveller chose the Grand Spa Resort out of 5780 exclusive hotels to be the most beautiful one. At the same time the A-ROSA Travemünde also received the Service Award ISA 2009 from the tourist office Lübeck und Travemünde Marketing GmbH.

November - Lemon Tree Hotels is India's fastest growing hotel group. To match up technology with the fast expansion, Lemon Tree Hotels are now implementing protel MPE companywide. The property management system for the Indian Hotel Chain will be implemented by the protel partner Xn Hotel Systems.