You're never better served than by yourself. Used to managing holidays on behalf of the millions of users of its application, the Kayak enters the hotel business. The world's leading travel search engine, part of the Booking Holdingsannounced the opening next April of an establishment in Miami Beach. This boutique hotel, housed in an Art Deco building dating from the 1930s, will offer travellers 52 rooms with connected televisions and Marshall speakers, as well as a rooftop terrace with a bar and restaurant with a Middle Eastern flavour, and a swimming pool.
Above all, the hotel will be used by Kayak to laboratory for its technology, developed in partnership with Life House, designed to help independent hotels manage and welcome their guests. Through the Kayak app, guests will be able to take advantage of a contactless check in/check out complemented by a digital kiosk in the hotel lobby, 24/7 digital communication with hotel staff, alerts when the room is ready and notifications of events organised in the hotel, as well as being able to call on the cleaning service via the app.
With this solution, hotel managers will be able to manage access and offer their guests digital room keysand also optimise their online distribution by integrating with Kayak's systems. " Our mission is to create value for independent lifestyle hotels and their owners" said Rami Zeidan, founder and CEO of Life House.
" Kayak Miami Beach is a playground for both our guests and our teams developmentsaid Steve Hafner, CEO of KAYAK. We see a great opportunity to extend our audience and technology to the accommodation sector, to make it easier for independent hotels to compete. "
First hotel developed by the website, the Kayak Miami Beach " will perhaps not the last" The press release goes on to say that this leading player in online travel will be exploring other ways of refining the quality of its software and adapting it to establishments of different sizes and types.
