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Restore the Rhythm
Your business may be back up and running, but understandably, it may not be quite back to normal just yet. Playing music is one way in which you could help get your business back to its best. Even small changes could make a big difference, and music could help enhance the atmosphere, lift the mood and create a more positive environment. If you are going to introduce music, or if you are already using music in your business, you’ll usually need a music licence. TheMusicLicence covers virtually all commercially released music available – millions of songs & recordings, including the most popular & well-loved music, not just from the UK, but globally. So while you are making all of the arrangements to get your business back to its best, now is the perfect time to turn the music back on and ensure you that you are appropriately licensed, and set up TheMusicLicence for your business.
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CENTRALISE YOUR RESERVATIONS
With leading property management platform, Guesty, hospitality operators can save time and resources so they can focus on maximising occupancy, ensuring a great guest experience and growing their business and we’ve got all the detail on how.
Guesty is the world’s leading property management platform. Hospitality brands, professional hosts and property management companies utilise our platform to centralise their reservations, guest communication, operational tasks, cleaning management and more across all the major booking OTA channels, including Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Tripadvisor, Expedia, Agoda, Trip.com, Hotels.com, Trivago, Plum Guide, Despegar.com, Google, direct booking websites and more. • Centralise reservations and listings across the major booking OTA channels from Airbnb to Vrbo, Booking.com, Tripadvisor, Expedia, Agoda, Trip.com, Hotels.com, Trivago, Plum Guide, Despegar.com, Google, and more. • Branded booking website and booking engine to own your guests’ direct booking experience and improve the brand’s value • Revenue Management to balance rates and availability to enable you set the right price at the right time • Central Reservation System tools with flexible rules and rates balances rates and availability to enable you to set the right price at the right time for maximum revenue.
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• Multi-Unit Management, Multi-Property Type Management + Flexible Length of Stay Management
How can the software be specifi c to a hotel setup?
Guesty’s suite of features provides a tech stack for independent hotel management, allowing aparthotels and boutique hotels to streamline operations, increase revenue and provide high-quality guest experiences.
Guesty’s Channel Manager simplifi es channel onboarding and maintenance, providing a unifi ed overview of distribution performance. Maximise channel capabilities while increasing exposure & bookings— all without ever having to juggle between multiple dashboards. Seamlessly integrate with industry-leading hotel channels along with direct booking websites and instantly access hundreds of additional distribution channels. Guesty simplifi es many aspects of hotel management operations, and additionally allows short-term rental operators to group multi-unit rentals and single units into a hotel complex structure, streamlining the creation of identical listings and grouping interchangeable properties under one umbrella.
Manage and automate rates and availability from a single dashboard to boost revenues. Integrate with dynamic pricing tools to adjust base rates according to real-time market performance and leverage automated pricing rules to fi ll occupancy gaps and adjust seasonal pricing. Additionally, generate accurate and detailed fi nancial reports to gain insight into your business’s performance and track KPIs like Average Daily Rate (ADR), occupancy, response time and more with our powerful advanced analytics dashboards.
Automate pre-stay, in-stay, and post-stay guest communication using our Unifi ed Inbox. With our Unifi ed Inbox, centralise all your guest communications from email, OTA inboxes, SMS, WhatsApp, and more into one place. With this beloved tool you can also leverage automated messages to respond quickly and provide a higher quality of service.
Manage reservations from all sources using our centralised Multi-Calendar. Avoid double bookings, optimise occupancy and maximise revenue by prioritising room allocation and creating space for more reservations, and see upcoming availability of all units in a user-friendly calendar and make smarter pricing decisions.
“The main product we started out needing was the inbox, and being able to sync all of our different Airbnb accounts, Booking.com accounts and Tripadvisor accounts into one inbox for our team to manage. When you get to push from one hundred to one thousand listings, you need solid systems in place and Guesty’s defi nitely provided us the platform to get there. Without a system like Guesty, it’s just impossible” - Fran Milsom, Co-Founder of Nestor, a London based short-term rental provider, specialising in central London apartments and hotels.
