Tapping offbeat locales
Hoteliers need to manage their inventory & cash flow proficiently while riding new trends in tech to evolve rapidly in the post pandemic world.
The cloud has been one of the most emergent hospitality tech trends since the past few years and has now gained even bigger traction since the global lockdown. Lots of hoteliers around the globe are ‘joining the cloud’ with their newest tech innovations and suite of solutions for a sagacious reason. Cloud-based multi-property accommodation management technology is real-time, fail-safe, can integrate with a broad range of other software and hardware solutions, and can be curated to cater to the specific requirements of the community therein offering unparalleled opportunities for expansion and growth.
Both large and small hoteliers who have started shifting to cloud-based solutions are already witnessing a big rise in productivity. All they require is a computer, tablet and a steady internet connection. The centralised dashboard offers a state-of-the-art built-in front-desk management system, channel manager, POS functions, housekeeping supervision, rate shopper, reputation management, website builder, payment gateway, booking engine, reports, analytics and more. Accommodation providers can manage multiple properties, operations, business relations, guests, travel agents and corporate clients from anywhere 24X7.
A new age indigenous entrant who is making waves in the hospitality management technology domain is Streetgooser. Founded in 2019 by three visionaries, Shakthivelu M, John Varghese and Deenath Sharma, the trio collectively bring together decades of rich expertise and diverse experience across the global travel, tourism, airlines, hospitality, entertainment and IT sectors.
Starting out from humble village backgrounds and working their way up into leadership positions in various domains around the world gave them a unique bird’s eye perspective of the potential of Tier-3 towns and small villages in offbeat locales, bursting with potential and opportunity in the accommodation sector but not having the capability to reach out to consumers looking for that rare exotic destination for their M!CE engagement or holiday requirements. This led to the trio designing a unique hotel management software with an interesting ideology ‘We want to change the Neighbourhood into a
Destination’. This hi-tech driven property management system offers hoteliers a suite of products and solutions that are cost-effective and efficient with an aim to ease all their operations by providing them with a platform and intuitive apps that are smart, easy to use, and reliable therein ensuring an increased market reach and seamless streamlining of daily functions via the easy to operate technology backbone.
With more and more travellers keen on visiting unexplored exotic locations and opting for cozy homestay options that minimise the risk of crowds and contraction of the virus, Streetgooser seems to have hit the jackpot with their pioneering bespoke technology platform. Some of the offbeat destinations that have seen an upsurge in bookings since their inception in 2019 and through this lockdown via this platform include Agra, Coorg, Goa, Adimaly, Chikmagalur, Boracay, Chiang Mai, Myanmar and Laos.
In an effort to conjointly fight back the COVID-19 pandemic and give back to the travel fraternity, Streetgooser has also committed free of charge (FOC) technology support to all their clients until the travel and tourism scenario returns back to normalcy.
With the COVID-19 outbreak putting hotels all around the world on halt and technology steadily seeping in to take control of the hospitality industry management, cloud-based technology entrants like Streetgooser seem to be on the right track.
Offering the best of new age technology and a suite of solutions, accommodation providers can now take the next big leap by investing in these cloud-based property management systems to fearlessly enter a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) decade with the best of technology and support to empower them in the journey ahead.
The trio has designed software with an interesting ideology ‘We want to change the Neighbourhood into a Destination’”