Two Hospitality Technology Consulting Firms Create Global Partnership
NOVEMBER 12, 2009 - HACL (Hospitality Automation Consultants Ltd., USA) and Pertlink (Pertlink Ltd., Hong Kong) have more than 100 years combined hospitality and consulting experience covering the major continents and an extensive client mix. HACL and Pertlink play an instrumental role in successfully pioneering the implementation of new technologies and techniques for streamlining operations that also enhance the customer experience.
The new entity brings together industry-leading domain knowledge. Their global reach allows hospitality companies to work with one firm that can fulfill all the technology and hospitality consulting needs of their business.
Lester Spielman - President and CEO of HACL said of the partnership; 'Dave Berkus, my partner at HACL and I are very excited about the synergy behind the partnership which perfectly leverages the infrastructure and telecoms expertise from HACL and merges it into the unique guest-experience expertise from Pertlink thereby providing a one-stop shop for the client.'
Terence Ronson - Managing Director of Pertlink added; 'We live in a global village. The advent of new technologies has made change the only constant in this evolving global hospitality environment. This partnership helps our partner hospitality groups to make sense of it all and apply these efficiently and cost-effectively. Our goal is to work with clients on a global basis and we are confident this partnership provides the correct platform to do just that.'
The two firms grew from opposite sides of the world with HACL in the U.S. and Europe, and Pertlink in Asia. By combining their global insights of the industry, the partnership can help businesses avoid unnecessary time-consuming analysis, starting projects with an understanding of what works among emerging products and technological systems designed for the hospitality industry. .
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