This week’s Partner News is highlighted by Mumford Company adding Gaurang Patel as a sales associate in its Dallas office; IDeaS implementing its revenue management system (RMS) at the Lily Country Club in Oslo, Norway; and Reside expanding its rollout of Virdee’s Virtual Reception mobile app across its entire portfolio. Read about all that and more below.
Mumford Company adds Gaurang Patel to its Dallas office
Mumford Company has expanded its Dallas office with the appointment of Gaurang Patel as sales associate. Patel brings considerable experience to Mumford Company from both his business career and experience as a hotel owner.
“Gaurang will be a great addition to our team as we continue to expand across the country,” said Ed James, managing principal in Mumford Company’s Virginia headquarters. “The Texas hotel market is very active, and we expect Gaurang’s presence there to enhance our continued growth and success in the region.”
As a hotelier, Patel has been involved with real estate acquisitions, debt financing, hotel operations and hotel sales spanning more than a decade. He is also an accomplished electronics engineer. For more than 15 years, he has worked for large technology corporations such as Infosys, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Genpact managing customer relationships and sales for customers such as JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, Royal Bank of Scotland and Robert Half International.
For more from Ed James, look for the Brokers Report in the March issue of Hotel Business.
Lily Country Club to implement IDeaS RMS
The Lily Country Club will implement IDeaS Revenue Management System (RMS) at its 507-room Norwegian golf resort, the third-largest hotel in the Oslo area, according to the company.
The property (pictured above) will rely on the data-driven intelligence and operational efficiencies its modern technology stack will deliver, selecting only best-in-class systems with seamless integrations and high-quality support.
IDeaS’ advanced automation will enable Lily Hospitality Group to save time in its centralized revenue management approach and distribute more strategic pricing decisions (e.g., room-type pricing, overbooking decision management, etc.). The property will also leverage IDeaS’ group pricing evaluation functionality to ensure the most optimal guest segment mix.
Reside expands Virdee rollout portfolio-wide
Reside, a prop-tech and alternative accommodations firm with operations in more than 19,000 cities and 60 countries, has expanded its partnership with Virdee, an Austin-based SaaS provider serving the hospitality, short-term rental, multi-family and commercial real estate industries. Reside’s subsidiary Reside 3Sixty, a marketplace for extended-stay corporate housing accommodations, has implemented the Virdee Virtual Reception mobile app for guest communications, upsells and check-in and checkout across its entire property portfolio, enabling seamless guest experiences for the company’s flexible inventory.
Reside 3Sixty is Reside’s innovative technology platform designed to provide an end-to-end relocation and business travel management solution to partners, clients and guests on a global scale. Reside 3Sixty offers direct access to more than 650,000 high-quality, fully-vetted alternative accommodation options spanning traditional corporate housing, hotels, short- and long-term apartments, student housing and single-family homes. Its clients benefit from a globally compliant and real-time booking tool curated to each client’s needs and a customer advocacy model centered on consistency, communication and 100% transparency.
“With the diversity of our product as a true alternative accommodations provider and the growing demand for locations across the globe, we needed to continue to drive a tech solution that allowed us to adapt quickly and provide a quality and consistent guest experience,” said Robyn Joliat, chief technology officer, Reside. “We deployed Virdee Virtual Reception Mobile and Kiosks in initial Seattle locations and have expanded into our New York City properties. Customers and guests find the tech easy to use and are impressed with the services they have at their fingertips and the seamless arrival experience that the Virdee solution has provided.”
OTH Hotels Resorts partners with ProfitSword
ProfitSword, a hospitality business intelligence and data integration platform, has formed a new partnership with OTH Hotels Resorts. A hotel management company experiencing rapid growth with a portfolio consisting of high-end properties throughout the East Coast, OTH Hotels Resorts is set to leverage ProfitSword’s technology at each of its locations to improve visibility into their data, support real-time, data-driven decision-making, help their employees be experts at their trade and maximize their top and bottom-line performance.
By automatically integrating with the range of systems utilized across OTH Hotels Resorts’ portfolio, ProfitSword helps to normalize disparate data into a single database for valuable analytics, dashboarding and planning. This includes combining financial data from accounting, PMS, POS, procurement and labor systems with benchmarking data from STR, transient and group data from sales systems and much more. As a result, the hotel management company is able to equip employees with easy-to-use web-based tools and custom-tailored reports consisting of analytics relevant to their areas of responsibility for swift decision-making capabilities. ProfitSword works with its partners to ensure their data is complete and accurate, and that they have the management tools and reports to meet their business needs.
Relay partners with Kinseth Hospitality Companies
Relay has revealed it will deploy its wearable and highly adaptable associate alert devices across 101 Kinseth Hospitality Company (KHC)-managed properties with 2000+ employees throughout the Midwest and Southern regions.
The partnership establishes Relay as Kinseth’s exclusive alert device partner, deploying the tech company’s next-generation, voice-first technology in Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The pocket-size device will be readily available for Kinseth employees working in management, guest services, housekeeping, maintenance and restaurant front-of and back-of-house staff.
