Thursday, 31 January 2013

INNSEND, A new tool focused on the fine hospitality sector




What does it do and how can it help hotels and resorts? Instant communication is the main advantage of this new tool. It creates a high efficiency internal network among the hotel employees. This tool is used for connecting departments and tracking issues. Eventually it will help to increase guest satisfaction.
It is an application working on PCs or Mac. The real added value is that it now works on smart phones or tablets and allows portability. This is definitely a key feature for departments such as Housekeeping, Maintenance or Minibar. All departments are provided with tablets preloading the InnSend application where they could linked to each other by instant messages (icons based), and communicate the needs of the customers or the basics solving of the day to day problems.

There is a toilette broken?  An important guest has arrived? A room must be cleaned immediately? In little steps the correct departments are informed by one message and they can react really fast.

Why it is different? It is easy to use. The employees do not need complicate IT training so that it can be easily implemented. With the portability, it helps to be more efficient. As we know, shorten customers’ waiting time will lead to their higher satisfaction and that means more revenue!

The company It was founded on 2009 in California, United States of America, and as they put them themselves:
innSend was founded by hoteliers to serve hoteliers. Like you, we struggled with complicated hospitality systems that are difficult to learn and use. Consequently, internal communications would often break down and service quality suffered.” (www.innsend.com)

Companies that are using this app:
 - Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts, Paris, St. Louis, San Francisco, Costa Rica, Sharm El Sheikh, Marrakech
-     - The Peninsula Hotel Beverly Hills
-     - L’Ermitage Beverly Hills
-     - Hotel Martinez Cannes

For more information:

Keywords: hotel, instant communication, customer satisfaction, communication, portability, mobile technology, efficiency, app

Posted by: Chen LIU & Milena BILLAUD

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