Hotel Brand Technology Mandates vs Owner Preferences: The Security Decisions You Make Before Opening Day

Thursday, 28 May 2026 by
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When you secure a franchise with a major hotel brand, you sign up to an enormous number of operational and technology requirements. That’s a given. These shape integration complexity and support costs, but their impact on security and other IT architecture is often overlooked. If you focus only on brand compliance, PMS choice and WiFi performance, you
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What passwordless really means for hotel IT

Thursday, 07 May 2026 by
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If you walk into modern hotels in major global cities you can already see where authentication is going. Staff move between shared workstations, tablets and back-office systems using physical tokens or their phones, not passwords, and the result is a faster, cleaner and more defensible operation. We recently worked with a newly-opened 216-room extended-stay property
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Design your hotel network at the blueprint stage

Thursday, 07 May 2026 by
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When a new hotel is close to sign-off, most of the attention goes to what guests will see. The rooms, the public areas, the finishes and the brand standards get picked apart in detail, while the network that will carry your guest Wi‑Fi, payments, front desk systems, room tech and building controls is too often
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Designing your hotel IT support model before you lock in the technology stack

Monday, 27 April 2026 by
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You would never sign a long‑term management agreement or flag deal without understanding operational implications, yet many hotel groups still lock in multimillion‑pound technology stacks before deciding who will keep the PMS, POS, Wi‑Fi, building systems, and guest‑facing technology running.  The right mix of in‑house, managed IT services, and hybrid support has to be defined
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Hotel WiFi Problems Are Costing You Guests 

Friday, 10 April 2026 by
Hotel wifi problems are costing you guests
Your hotel is fully booked this weekend – and by Saturday morning, you could have three one-star reviews because your WiFi sucks.  Don’t blame your provider. Hotel WiFi failures are almost never caused by slow broadband. Rather, blame your design team – failures are usually the result of a network infrastructure that wasn’t designed to handle 150 simultaneous guests streaming, working, and video calling at the same
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Hotel IT: The Pre-Opening Technology Checklist 

Friday, 10 April 2026 by
Pre-Opening Hotel Checklist
Good hotel IT design starts with the architecture, not the fit-out. The decisions you make at the beginning – network infrastructure, cabling, and systems – will determine technology performance and costs for decades, so it’s worth investing in them upfront.  I’ve been doing this for more than 25 years and I keep seeing the same thing. The building is nearly finished. The furniture is
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