All articles by Amit Thadani
Amit Thadani
Percipient Sits Down with Hotel Management International
Chris Stock, Managing Director at Percipient, sits down with Hotel Management International to discuss the importance of technology in the hospitality industry.
Sage Intacct: A Multi-Entity Solution
Laurie Stanwick looks at the benefits of Sage Intacct in managing financials across multi-entity hotel businesses, and highlights the importance of seamless consolidation in a post lockdown era.
Axiom Hospitality Drives Performance with Percipient
Percipient uses Sage X3 to instil agility and flexibility, expedite decision-making and deliver scale at Axiom Hospitality.
USALI: Raising the Standard
Jo Fuller, Percipient, looks at the importance of accounting standards in the hospitality sector, and explains how it has incorporated USALI into Sage Intacct and Sage X3 to drive best practice and create a common framework across the industry.
LGH Turns to Percipient for Sage X3 Support
Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Best Western Hotel owner puts Sage X3 at the centre of managed cloud strategy.
Treat with care
With a recent study estimating that over two million adults in England may have had long Covid, efforts to improve the understanding of the condition are ongoing. To help patients recover, a number of wellness resorts are marketing treatments and therapies to long Covid sufferers, promising to combat the lingering effects of the virus. Abi Millar speaks to Nils Behrens, chief marketing officer at Lanserhof Resorts and the managing team at SHA Wellness clinics about the role hospitality venues can play in helping patients overcome long Covid.
Better times ahead
The European Hotel Managers Association (EHMA) continues to support hoteliers, as it has done throughout the pandemic. Now, however, with vaccination campaigns in full swing and green passes awarded to specific European countries, there is hope that hotels can begin to return to normal. EHMA president Ezio A Indiani shares the latest news from the organisation and reflects on the recent recruitment issues hampering the hospitality industry.
Ghost in the kitchen
The past few years have been difficult for hotels, and arguably even worse for their kitchens. Without guests in dining rooms and even fewer ordering room service, the tight margins that hotel F&B had long relied on have shrunk. But with the pandemic closing in, hotel owners have at least been forced to think creatively, offering empty facilities to third parties. Andrea Valentino talks to Richie Karaburun, a professor in hospitality at NYU, and Fred DeMicco, a professor at Northern Arizona university, to understand the allure of ghost kitchens in the time of Covid-19, how outsourcing hospitality can be good for both hotels and their guests, and how the ghost kitchen phenomenon seems likely to continue even as the current crisis subsides.
Take the lead
After joining Marriott as a night auditor in 1988, Satya Anand has risen through the ranks at Marriott International during an impressive 33-year career. Now, as the newly appointed president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Anand faces his biggest task yet: helping Marriott recover from the damage inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic; overseeing 948 hotels spread across 75 countries. Will Moffitt speaks to him about his prestigious career, his strategy in the wake of Covid-19 and his long-term vision for post-Covid recovery.
Into the fold
It’s no secret that staff shortages are causing problems in many industries, not just hospitality. But is it just the pandemic? In the UK, many of us suspect that Brexit has added to our staffing issues. Either way, we must do more to help sell and recognise hospitality as a viable profession, writes Jane Pendlebury, chief executive at HOSPA.