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💾 Ira Vouk, hospitality consultant and HITEC Advisory Council member, advises renaming "revenue management" to "profit and revenue optimization." Enzo Aita, VP of Business Development at HyperGuest, emphasizes high-quality data as essential for AI to improve revenue management systems. Ryan Tuckerman, Director at Ovolo Hotels, highlights the need for integrated systems over the next five years. Diego De Ponga, CEO of Port Hotels, suggests revenue managers must adapt to the evolving environment or risk obsolescence within two years. The article underscores the increasingly strategic role of revenue managers in hospitality.

💻 Cloudbeds, a leading hotel management technology firm in San Diego, CA, hires AI pioneers Amit Popat and Nikhil Shah, both Cambridge-educated mathematicians with years of industry experience. Popat's background includes roles at Valtech, London Town Group, and founding an AI software consultancy, while Shah holds a Ph.D. from Imperial College London, co-founded S-Cube, and worked with Chevron, Woodside, and Petrobras. Together, they founded Hotel Cloud in 2020. Cloudbeds aims to leverage their expertise in causal inference and machine learning to innovate and integrate AI into hotel management technology.

📌 Cloudbeds, a global leader in hotel management software, pioneers by offering the first Property Management System (PMS) with a native Business Intelligence (BI) solution specifically designed for the hotel industry, enhancing data analysis, decision-making, and operational efficiency. Based in San Diego, CA, Cloudbeds Insights reduces hotels' reliance on generic BI tools by providing real-time data access and unparalleled flexibility within the PMS. CEO Adam Harris highlights that the native data intelligence solution unlocks new possibilities for hoteliers, allowing comprehensive decision-making and improved property management. The tool offers real-time performance optimization across hotel operations, personalized reporting, attractive graphics and dashboards, and the ability to integrate with preferred software via an API. Cloudbeds reinforces its market-leading position through continuous innovation, sustaining its commitment to the growth of the hotel sector.