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Hirum Property Management Newsletter - July 2010

Feel Free to browse through our latest Newsletter for July 2010.

Special Features: HiRUM FREE Training seminar and Wine & Cheese social event.

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Management Rights article - HiRUM's Blog

  • Chinese Tourism - Are you ready for it?

Chinese Tourism is forecast to grow rapidly in the coming few years - is your property visible via the Internet for Chinese Tourist to see and book?

  • What's happening in your Street?

Local councils and Government - Are they helping to build tourism through your area? Do you have a community which works together to generate business?

  • Social Media - What is it and should you use it?: - interesting statistics and thoughts on whether you should join this social frenzy.

96% of Generation Y has joined a Social Media network! Such numbers in such a short period of time are incredible when you consider other medians took years!
Radio 38 Years
TV 13 Years
Internet 4 Years
Facebook added 100 Million users in less than 9 months!
There are over 200,000,000 Blogs!

  • Why more people choose HiRUM - Customer care and a total business solution:

If your business deserves a business solution as opposed to a simple owners accounting solution, then it needs Hirum. However, if your business deserves less than the best or if you’ve invested your life savings in a job, rather than a business, then please disregard this.

  • Buying Management Rights - what about your Domain Name and Website:

There have been many occasions where the ownership of a domain name has become the target of hostility between companies, third parties, and the hotel that believes it naturally owns it by association.............

Our thoughts on what to look out for when buying Management Rights - your Website and Domain Name may go un-noticed!

 

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HiRUM Newsletter June 2010

The latest edition of the HiRUM eNewsletter is now available, please CLICK HERE to download our pdf.

 

Evolution Profile - Accom News

Please visit the Accom News profile of Evolution

.......Today, the Rae family still own Macarther Chambers and have since purchased Central Brunswick in Fortitude Valley but their newest vanture is Evolution Apartments. As a result they have on-sold their investments in Noosa to focus their combined energies on their three Brisbane based properties. Aaron, as the group general manager has operational responsibility across the properties...........

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HIRUM Accom News eNEWSLETTER

HIRUM - A Total Business Solution; PMS & built in Channel Manager, HISITE

Our Accommodation Management Software solutions and Property Management systems cater for all size properties; no property is too big or small.

Our development of software specifically for this industry makes us unique and has led to HiRUM emerging as the market leader in Reservations, Channel Management, Trust Accounting software and Reporting solutions.

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Stella Announcement - 3 August 2009

Australia-based travel and hospitality company Stella Group today announced it has completed a comprehensive corporate restructure and recapitalisation to position its businesses for future performance, long-term stability and growth.

Stella Group Chairman, Andrew Cummins said "We have reached a significant milestone in our long-term plan to strengthen the Stella Group of companies. We have completed the restructuring and recapitalisation of the group, ensuring each of Stella Hospitality Group and the Stella Travel Services Group has a solid balance sheet, access to substantial liquidity and more importantly, a solid and stable platform to grow as the hospitality and travel market recover, following challenging market conditions over the past 12 months.

Hirum Training - Sunshine Coast TAFE

Guest Services / Office Skills Short Course

 
Delivery Package No.  224070

Short Course Description

This course will provide participants with the necessary skills and knowledge required in both Reservations and Reception to work in this growth area such as serviced apartments, hotels, motels and resorts. Skills and knowledge are complimented with training using two of the most popular computerised front office reservation systems (Fidelio and Hirum). These software programs are currently used in many leading hotels and resorts in order to operate their accommodation services.

NetPos

NetPOS Front Office Interface  (Room Charging from the POS)

NetPOS software links the Property Management Software to the POS Terminals so that Guests can swipe their cards at the Bar or Restaurant and the Property Management System will return their Booked in Name, Credit Limit and Account Balance. Room Charges from the POS will update the Property Management System immediately the sale is completed. It is suitable for most Property Management Software packages on the market. Custom interfaces can also be developed to link directly to specific Property Management Software.

Existing Property Management interfaces are available for

Secure File Link

Running a backup as a service

As more and more customers move to a client/ server environment there has been a growing need to have Secure-ISS Explorer work when nobody is logged into the machine. With the next version of Secure-ISS Explorer, users will be able to setup the backup process so that it runs as a service, meaning there is no longer a need for you to check if your server is logged-in and your backups running! (Although there is still the need to check your backup runs!)