STAAH hosted its most anticipated conference The Big Connect in Kolkata & Udaipur along with leading tech partners from the Hospitality space – Webbeds, OTA Insight, and Airpay. The events were extremely successful with over 150 participants which included Owners, General Managers and Departmental Heads of Hotels and Hotel Groups.  The Big Connect in Kolkata was a day-long conference, starting with Interactive KeyNote Sessions, & an informative Panel Discussion on 2023 & Road Ahead with the leaders from Hospitality Space in India: Akanksha Garg – Founder Director, Waxpol Ho ..read more

Download this free e-Book to drive more revenue Are you looking for ways to optimise your property’s revenue? Whilst OTAs and travel agents play their role in increasing awareness and occupancy, direct bookings are prized for possessing the lowermost costs when it comes to acquiring guests. Yet, a good direct booking strategy is not about eliminating OTAs, but building a distribution strategy that is balanced between direct bookings and OTA bookings. Akanksha Garg, Founder Director of Waxpoi Hotels and Resorts receiving our New EBook from Rajesh Ghanshani, Director Business Development Indi ..read more

Born & brought up in the Hospitality industry, Meet Jai Motihar, Head of Sales, STAAH UAE who brings with him a bagful experience in Revenue Management, Sales, Business Development, and Business Excellence. Tell us a bit about your career in hospitality/ technology and the journey to STAAH Professionally born and brought up in Hospitality Industry, my love for travel and meeting new people across boundaries is what I like the best about this profession. I started my journey in 1998, with a Leading Hotel Chain, the Taj Group of Hotels, worked in several departments including Human Resourc ..read more

In compliance with the Tourism Tax Act 2017 and the Tourism Tax Regulations 2017 to the local tax regulations, starting on January 1st 2023, Hotel Operators now need to collect, report, and remit the Tourism Tax of MYR10 per room per night from all foreign guests and/or tourists. We have made this easy for STAAH Customers in Malaysia. Hotel operators can insert the notice into their STAAH Booking Engine. How to insert the notice-: Login to STAAH > Setting Icon >  Profile > Terms You can also insert the notice into every package Login to STAAH > Setting Icon > Package > ..read more

It was a great year where we had amazing webinars, BLAAH BLAAH sessions, and hotel technology-related video blogs. Bringing together some of the most watched videos from this year here are our top 5 videos. Hotel Technology Trends – What To Expect In 2022 Best practices to drive Direct bookings STAAH Webinar Sell More Rooms with Google Free Listing Indian Sub-Continent & Europe Product Masterclass Series: 1 How to Set up Packages STAAH Max BLAAH BLAAH @STAAH with Dia Mirza We hope you enjoyed this year’s top videos. We look forward to publishing more educational videos about all the ..read more

Amanda brings more than 20 years of experience leading sales across Xero, CCH Software and as Chief Revenue Officer at Vend December 15th, 2022, Auckland: A leading cloud-based hospitality software provider, STAAH has announced Amanda Armstrong as an independent director to its Board of Directors effective 1st September 2022. Amanda joins STAAH to help guide the company’s vision and mission to become the technology partner of choice for hoteliers via its channel manager, website booking engine, online review management system and gift voucher system. Amanda has more than 20 years of experien ..read more

Shawn brings with him more than 20 years of technology and software product leadership experience in this non-executive STAAH appointment. December 7th, 2022, Auckland:  Cloud-based hospitality software specialist, STAAH, has appointed Shawn Hamman as an independent director to its Board of Directors, effective 1st September 2022. Following the appointment of Shawn, the board will comprise 5 directors, two of whom are independent. As an established leader in technology, Shawn is currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Vector Technology Solutions Ltd, a New Zealand company t ..read more

STAAH properties using Expedia as a channel can now manage, create and modify all their Expedia listing directly from STAAH channel manager. What does this mean? With the new Expedia content update, you can now Manage and create all Expedia content within the STAAH Extranet. Map to an existing room type or rate plan setup on Expedia Manage room/rate plan content information on Expedia Create a new rate plan and link to an existing Expedia room type Create a new room type on Expedia Benefits of Managing Expedia content from STAAH are: Gives you direct access from the extranet which means m ..read more

In his new role as the Chief Executive Officer, Tony will be responsible for overall leadership, strategy and business management, driving STAAH’s vision of continued rapid growth of its business and 13,000+ customer base. The appointment came into effect from 1 September 2022. Tony steps up to this position from the Chief Operating Officer of STAAH, a role he held for more than three years. Tony offers more than 20 years of industry experience, including strategic roles at Auckland Conventions Venues & Events (Auckland Unlimited) and the Heritage Hotel Group. “The hospitality landscape ..read more

Continuing the trend of bringing you the best, here is a quick list of the latest product updates, enhancements, and features, that you should take note of. STAAH MAX – Confirm Pending Bookings Properties can confirm pending CRS and Booking engine bookings with this feature. Confirm booking button is now available in the Advanced booking search tab. This option is useful when for example a payment was declined while a guest was making a booking The property can contact the guest, and make the payment manually (cash or bank transfer by the guest) Then the property can mark the pending booki ..read more