Dubai ended the year with more than 60 new hotels, which represent almost 10% increase in one year only. It’s true that increase of guests is expected for Expo 2020, but for hotels to survive on the long run, they need to compete with more and more competition. The result…

How will current trends in hospitality affect our digital future In the year of 2020, it’s very likely that almost all industries will be impacted by new waves of digital innovation in some way, shape or form and as current trends in the hospitality industry suggest the industry is looking…

5 highlights of 5G and IPTV With a promising increase of bandwidth, 5G becomes an alternative to cable data networks in hotels IPTV systems. Normally, expert network design, cabling and network gear installation are required to allow digital data in hotels. 5G in the IPTV hospitality industry reduce those expenses…

How to use ancillary revenue and end the struggle for survival and significantly increase your income – in hospitality, airline, maritime, healthcare and other industries. A few days ago, IATA presented an interesting report showing that airlines average of just over $6 of profit per passenger. One of the most…

The cruise industry remains buoyant, with no signs of slowing down. The number of passengers grew by almost seven percent in 2018, the chief executives reported at Seatrade in Miami Beach. The optimism lies with the fact that “both millennials and retirees are cruising,” according to Arnold Donald, CEO of…

EVERYTHING you need to consider before making a decision. Selection Buying or replacing iTV is a huge deal for any company, so you better do it right, as the consequences can be enormous. Unfortunately, it is also quite different from hospitality solutions, so not every hospitality solution will fit. Let’s…

Technology for Hotel Guests: How to Help Them Have the Memorable Experience Panelist at HOW Festival 2018 in Porec, Peter Lösch[1], Director of Maistra Luxury Division[2], said that hotels are playing it safe, meaning that they use technology only when it’s widely accepted by majority. Based on our experience, we…

Are you interested to enhance the guest experience with technology? Technology is a powerful tool, but hotels still don’t use it to its full potential. Hotels must put their best foot forward in providing the best guest experience, and nowadays this requires a personalized approach that can be easily achieved…

What is Internet protocol Television or IPTV? – Nevron Blog Internet protocol Television or IPTV is a video broadcast technology that delivers video content over computer networks. Instead of using medium like cable or satellite radio to deliver content, IPTV uses converged IP networks, allowing other services like VoIP, computer…

IPTV/OTT technology has so much to offer that at some point it may become difficult to gather everything in one place so that administrators, editors and users can easily access, manage and monitor everything. Thanks to WEB technology and a variety of iOS and Android UI frameworks used by IPTV…

Android STB? Linux STB? IPTV solutions has seen variety of platforms become the home of their client applications. Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS, Windows, Tizen and even HTML5 are suitable for hosting client apps. But for various reasons, Android is the sure leader among platforms chosen to be the operating system…

There is a variety of different TV system available on the market today. There’s Cable TV, Satellite TV, IPTV, and, last but not least, OTT (over-the-top) streaming as well. And making the right decision about which TV connection is best for your situation can be very difficult. Why IPTV? We…

In recent decades the hotel business experienced increased competition after various hotel booking services started to spread. It is now far easier for a guest to compare booking prices in an area and select the optimal option, leaving more expensive offers behind. As a result, some hotels may show a decline in revenue. It might be your hotel and you will only notice that something is wrong when quarterly and yearly financial reports show such disparity with previous results. So, you need to plan some countermeasures in advance. One way to patch up such holes in the budget of your hotel is to offer additional revenue-generating services to guests who stay on your premises. In this article, you will find out how to upgrade your Hotel TV system with IPTV technology and generate extra revenue from it.

IPTV set-top box vs. Smart TV? Once a luxury, TV sets have been a part of standard equipment in practically every hotel room for quite a while now. However, only recently has the advancing technology enabled TV sets to become more than just a costly entertainment service for the guests. As ever-increasing broadband internet connectivity is firmly making the Internet the prevailing channel of TV content delivery, TV sets now don’t offer just a whole new level of experience for the guests, but also an amazing new opportunity for the hotels to directly reach and communicate their services to their clients.

The original reason why TV manufacturers started to offer SMART TV models is because they faced competition from more intelligent devices like smartphones, laptops, tablets, etc. Having a media device which can play your favourite videos from YouTube channels or NetFlix movies would draw the customer’s attention away from regular TV, capable of only showing local, live TV channels, which might not be relevant to the viewer’s current mood or preferences. This is important if you are starting a Hospitality TV project.