The Mews Blog

Industry trends 24 Oct 2018

Mews 2018 Summit Expert Panel: The Future of Payments

The problem of payment bottlenecking in hotels was one of the reasons why Richard Valtr founded Mews, and he invited two industry experts, Edward Hallett (Managing Director at...

Company 15 Oct 2018

Mews 2018 Summit Expert Panel: Tech vs Tech

Ultra-connected hotels already exist, thanks to the IOT. We invited some key hospitality figures to our recent Back To The Hospitality Future summit...

Industry trends 6 Sep 2018

Why Oracle Must Hate Oracle Hospitality

Richard Valtr, Founder of Mews Systems, writes about why he feels that software giant Oracle’s hospitality division contradicts its technology...

3 Sep 2018

"Mews knows the difference between beds and rooms" | Wombat's Hostels..

Practically located in five of Europe’s most vibrant cities, Wombat's Hostels pride themselves on offering the ultimate hostel experience in Berlin,...

31 Aug 2018

"We can't stop using the task feature"

Tucked away in a quiet road behind the shimmering towers of London’s Canary Wharf lies a hotel oft frequented by business travellers and...

Industry trends 20 Aug 2018

The pointless stuff hotels still do

We’ve seen plenty of hotels, hostels and apartments in our time and we often find ourselves wondering why so many still hold on so adamantly...

11 Jul 2018

“Mews helps make us more than a hostel”

AccorHotels have just rolled out their most innovative hostel brand to date and it goes by the name of JO & JOE. But the properties are no...

5 Jun 2018

"The future looks like a hometel"

The Lamington Group have just rolled out their latest innovative room2 concept on the southern coast of the UK and the place is armed to the...

Company 5 Jun 2018

Mews Raises €6 million to take Hospitality into the Future

We just closed our largest fundraise yet and we aren’t just spending that cash on more sales people. We’re over-investing in the two areas we...

Industry trends 22 May 2018

Who's Afraid of Payment Automation?

Manually hotel processing payments is the single biggest drain on time and manpower for any hospitality operation so we decided to do a...

Industry trends 7 May 2018

No More Manual Reporting

Quick read - Reports shouldn’t have to be produced manually nor should you have to wait to be able to access them. It’s 2018 and with a...

Industry trends 13 Apr 2018

How to Embrace Negative Feedback at your Hotel

Quick read - Research shows the effect of reviews on hotel conversion rates and pricing is massive with travellers four times more likely to...

Technology 28 Mar 2018

Why Open Platforms Do It Better

Quick read - A closed one-stop-shop PMS is fundamentally limited, doomed to inefficiency and, ultimately, more costly (hidden interface fees...

Product 2 Mar 2018

The New Mews Operator: your reception kiosk on steroids!

At Mews we have long been obsessed with ensuring hotel guests never have to wait and, with the launch of the Mews Operator, we are taking a...

Industry trends 1 Mar 2018

An Open Letter to the OTAs : are you the dinosaurs now?

Dear OTAs, As ex-hoteliers that first used your platforms when you were young startups much like we are today, we recognise that you once...

Product 22 Feb 2018

Boosting Yield with Mews and Hotel Scienz

We are excited to announce that Mews Systems and Xotels are collaborating to make revenue management great again! Xotel’s Hotel Scienz ...

Industry trends 2 Feb 2018

GDPR - a Blessing in Disguise

What is GDPR? In a nutshell, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is all about your guests’ privacy rights. Importantly, it is not...

Guest experience 5 Jan 2018

Hotel Trends Transforming the Guest Experience in 2018

Every year, the colour experts at the Pantone Colour Institute read the proverbial tea leaves and proclaim a colour of the year. For those...

Company 2 Jan 2018

Ruben Westmeijer Joins Mews as Director of Partnerships

Mews Systems has expanded its core team with the appointment of Ruben Westmeijer as Director of Partnerships. Working closely with the senior...

Industry trends 21 Dec 2017

Modern Accounting for Modern Hotels

In the hospitality industry, accounting is often one of the most technologically antiquated departments. Stacks of invoices and labour...

Company 13 Dec 2017

The Best of 2017

As 2017 comes to a close we wanted to look back and reflect on our fifth year at Mews and how far we have come in our mission to change the...

Industry trends 4 Dec 2017

How to Find the Right Price

90 percent of the world’s properties still don’t use a proper hotel rate management software despite the potential revenue uplift it could...

Technology 17 Nov 2017

All you need to know about hotel door locks

Key integrations Door locks are some of the oldest - and worst - technologies used in the hotel industry today. Furthermore, the hardware can be...

Technology 6 Nov 2017

The future of hotel housekeeping technology

Frictionless internal communication is what creates the “magic” guests feel when entering a well-run hotel. But there are some departments that have...

Technology 1 Nov 2017

Key Takeaways from the Hotel Technology Revolution Forum

Last month, the great and the good of the hotel tech industry gathered in Amsterdam to discuss the future of hospitality technology and the...

Industry trends 11 Sep 2017

How Hotels and Hostels can Supercharge Direct Bookings

The reality within the hotel industry is that online travel agencies (OTAs) are increasingly favoured by travellers who would rather have one...

Industry trends 22 Aug 2017

Personalization: the future of the hotel experience for the on-demand generation

At the recent Hotels.com conference in San Francisco, world renowned futurist Dr James Canton presented his anticipated blue-sky Hotels of the...

Industry trends 27 Jul 2017

Why Saving the Planet with Free Pizza is the Modern Way of Upselling

We have invited Erik from Oaky to write a guest-blog. We have seen a tremendous interest in their product in the last weeks since they went...

Product 17 Jul 2017

Mews and Oaky are Transforming the Way Hotels Serve Millennial Travellers

Today’s travellers are accustomed to receiving a more personalised and on-demand experience. They now expect that their accommodation...

Company 3 Feb 2017

Designing a Modern PMS for the Modern Hotelier

We have a bit of a joke in the office as one of the first videos that we ever produced started with my droning voice and the above phrase. We...