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Volara Brings Holiday Music to Hotel Rooms with iHeartRadio on Voice Command
New York - It's predicted that 115.6 million Americans will be traveling from Saturday, Dec. 21, through Wednesday, Jan. 1, for the 2019 holiday season. Whether they arrive at your hotel by car (104 million are expected to drive) or plane, Volara will be ready to...
Quantifying the Guest Experience
Hospitality is a numbers game. Supply and its elasticity is limited. Demand is finicky and price conscious. Amorphous terms like "guest experience" are challenging to quantify, yet most argue critical to filling guest rooms at premium rates in competitive markets. As...
Is Your Hotel Budgeting for Voice Technology?
New revenue opportunities and operational efficiencies derived from a well implemented guestroom voice assistant are measurable Seventy-nine percent of hoteliers and 45 percent of travel brands reported voice-enabled technology investment plans this year. Devices from...
Locale Grand Cayman Voice-enables Every Guestroom with Volara-powered Alexa Solution
When Locale, Grand Cayman opened its doors in March, it became the first hotel in the Cayman Islands to feature Amazon Alexa voice assistants powered by Volara in every guestroom. As an independent boutique hotel, it was important to management that the new hotel...
JA Lake View Hotel Dubai is the First Hotel in the Middle East to Voice-Enable Every Guestroom with Volara-Powered Alexa Solution
Dubai — With its Grand Opening this week, JA Lake View Hotel Dubai becomes the first hotel in the Middle East to feature Amazon Alexa voice assistants powered by Volara in every guestroom. The solution, powered by Volara's conversation management software and...
Hotel Zetta Now Featuring Volara-Powered Alexa Technology in Every Guest Room
New York and San Francisco — Hotel Zetta, managed by Viceroy Hotels and Resorts and boasting ultra-modern guest rooms, innovative health and wellness programming and cutting-edge tech experiences in the heart of San Francisco's bustling SoMa district, is giving its...
The Westin Buffalo is first hotel worldwide to give guests access to personal playlists from their hotel rooms
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Global hospitality company Delaware North today announced that the company-operated Westin Buffalo has become the first hotel in the world to allow its guests to connect their personal Amazon accounts to the Echo devices in each of its 115 guest...
Volara Teams with CIRQ+ to Power its New, Multimodal, Voice-Based Guestroom Device
Minneapolis, Minn. — Today at HITEC Minneapolis, Volara is partnering with CIRQ+ to augment the company's new multimodal interface system that includes an unprecedented guest Opt-in capability that takes voice privacy and security in the guestroom to new levels....
8 Critical Questions to Ask When Shopping for Voice Technology at HITEC Minneapolis
New York — The rate of smart speaker adoption in the United States does not appear to be slowing, with 57.8 million adults owning at least one smart speaker according to a recent Voicebot.ai survey. Perhaps that's why 79% of hoteliers named voice-enabled technology as...
Engagement technology leader, Uniguest acquires hospitality division of CPI Global
New York — Volara will unveil new enhancements to its voice-based conversation-management software during HITEC Minneapolis next week. Volara's software turns popular voice assistants (Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, IBM Watson, Smartbeings WooHoo®) into a hotel...
Volara Now Powering the WooHoo® Enterprise AI Assistant for Hotels
New York and Menlo Park, Calif. — Volara is now powering the independent WooHoo® Enterprise AI Assistant for hotels from SmartBeings. Through a technical integration and exclusive distribution arrangement, hotel guests can now speak or touch a screen to command the...
Bittel’s MODA Smart Guestroom Device Now Working Seamlessly with Volara
New York and San Jose, Calif — Volara - the voice hub for the hotel industry - is now powering the voice module of Bittel's modern, modular MODA smart device. By speaking simple commands, such as "Alexa, call the front desk" or "Hey Google, bring me more towels,"...