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Volara Partners with Butler Hospitality and Synergy Global Housing to Bring Roomservice to Guests at Synergy Chelsea NYC
New York - Accessing roomservice just got a lot easier for corporate housing guests staying at the Synergy Chelsea in New York. Through a new strategic partnership between Volara and Butler Hospitality, guests staying at 232 7th Avenue can now scan a QR code on a...
Volara Doubles-Down on its Commitment to Supporting the Hotel Industry
NEW YORK - Committed to being part of the solution for hoteliers in the post-pandemic era, Volara is growing its team. Sarah Kozlowski joins the secure voice assistant solutions provider as Account Executive. She brings to Volara a knack for developing excellent...
Volara Named a ‘Hot 25 Startup’ for 2021 by PhocusWire
Volara, the voice hub for the hotel industry, has been selected as one of PhocusWire's "Hot 25 Startups" for 2021 and has been invited to present their innovative solutions during the Innovation Summit at Phocuswright 2020 on November 12, 2020. The third annual event,...
Hotel Zena, a Groundbreaking Hotel Dedicated to Female Empowerment, Opens with Volara + Google in Every Guestroom
New York and Washington D.C. — When Hotel Zena opened its doors this month in downtown Washington, D.C., Volara was there to get guests talking via Google Nest Hubs in each of its 191 guestrooms. Implementation of Volara's contactless guest engagement and touchless...
Innovative Ideas for Keeping Guests Safe During the Pandemic
From flying guests private and hosting balcony concerts to leveraging robotics and partnering with local tourism bureaus, hoteliers are finding new ways to help guests stay responsibly With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact occupancy rates of hotels across...
Google + Volara Enabling Voice Based Contactless Guest Engagement and Touchless Room Controls
5 Reasons Guests Matter More Than Ever
Providing a quality guest experience is more important than ever for hoteliers seeking to compete in the post-COVID-19 world. Much has been said over the past six months about social distancing, mask etiquette, and the need for greater vigilance in protecting public...
Routier Joins Volara’s Voice Hub to Expedite Two-Way Contactless Guest Communications
NEW YORK — Routier, an omni-channel hotel guest engagement solution that uses messaging channels such as SMS/text messaging, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook, Line, etc. to seamlessly connect guests to staff, has joined Volara's secure voice integration...
Voice Is Here to Stay: Embrace it
Why Viceroy Hotels & Resorts is ‘All In’ with Volara By Darren Clark Vice President of Technology Viceroy Hotels & Resorts It's a new decade — a time when hoteliers are looking at artificial intelligence and voice technologies not as disruptors, but as...
Reducing Friction in Hotel Guest Service: A Recap of ‘Voice’ at CES 2020
New York - More than 170,000 people descended on Las Vegas last week to see the most transformative technology products on the planet during the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show. New this year was a "Travel & Tourism" educational track that highlighted how smarter...
Volara Named ‘Best Voice Activated Tech Product’ of 2020 by HotelTechReport
New York - "The Grammy's of Hotel Tech" - also known as The HotelTechAwards - were announced this week by HotelTechReport, a technology-driven media platform that helps entrepreneurial hoteliers find the best technology tools to solve problems and grow their...
Viceroy Hotels & Resorts Goes ‘All In’ with Volara
New York — With voice technology disrupting hotel guest engagement and redefining how services are requested, Viceroy Hotels & Resorts is expanding its relationship with Volara to power in-room smart speakers and enable automated voice services at its luxury...