Hotel Information Systems and Active Golf Solutions Team Up
Provide Management Solution for Resort Hotels
LAKE FOREST / SAN DIEGO, CA, June 13, 2006. Hotel Information Systems has partnered with Active Golf Solutions, part of The Active Network, Inc., to provide resort hotels a robust and easy-to-use integrated golf and activity software solution for automating the daily administration needs of the golf resort environment. The new solution will leverage fundamental software functionality and features from both companies' leading software products, enabling hotel resort operators to seamlessly automate golf management and hotel property management using one integrated solution.
"Resorts will have the benefits of one integrated solution to manage everything from guest and golfer data, activities scheduling, tee time reservations, point-of-sale transactions, account receivables, guest billing, room reservations and availability, rate management, and more," said Alex Barnetson, senior vice president, The Active Network, Inc. "Both companies bring a solid history delivering technology automation solutions for the hospitality and community service industry. Working together, we're developing a function and feature-rich solution that will enable resort operators to automate every aspect of their administration while enhancing service for their guests."
Through its epitome Property Management System, Hotel Information Systems has provided thousands of properties complete solutions for the management of guests, reservations, rates, availability and affinity programs for single and multi-property hospitality enterprises. W. Brian Kretzmer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hotel Information Systems, commented, "Many of our clients are resort hotels with luxurious private and semi-private golf courses for which they need a robust solution. Active Golf Solutions is a leading provider of golf course management software, online tee time reservations, activities scheduling and marketing services and offers a complimentary fit with our epitome.NET Internet-native Property Management System. This partnership, along with strong integration, will allow us to provide our resort clients with a complete desktop and Internet solution."
With Active Golf Solution's golf and activity capabilities embedded into the epitome system, hotel reservationists using the epitome Property Management System will be able to book golf and other activities while handling administrative needs such as making a room or package reservation. Scheduled activity - tee times and resort activities - could be added to a guest's itinerary and e-mailed directly to the guest. The new integrated software could also be used to notify reservationists of room cancellations associated with scheduled activities so scheduling adjustments can be made.
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