Oracle Hospitality: Tech Drives Resurgence | SVP & General Manager Alexander Alt [Sponsored]

The Big Themes:• Operating solutions to hotels, casinos, and cruise ships: It’s been a brutal 18 months for hospitality – the industry did a very good job early on of shoring up liquidity.• We did quite well during COVID: The vast majority of the partner technologies that were deployed I'd say in the first 12 months of the pandemic were largely focused around mobility.• These are huge numbers: We're talking IT staffs that numbered in the thousands pre-pandemic. I don't see those IT organizations returning to pre-pandemic numbers.• It was hard to get a hotel room: I think the industry's going to have a gangbuster holiday season.The Big Quotes:• “I can tell you in the immediate timeframe, because of the staffing shortages, there's a heavy reliance on technology as an intermediary to facilitate that guest experience.”• “I hope you stayed at a property that leverages our Oracle hospitality technology.”• “It's a really great win-win product, because the traveler is always getting a better product and the hotel's getting more money.”--This episode is brought to you by Oracle.