How a PMS is Important for Hotels?
- Tarun Gulati

- Feb 21, 2019
- 2 min read
In this era of fierce competition and by the rapid growth of tourism there are new emerging hotels coming in and the numbers are increasing every year, one can find hotels fitting to their need and budget with utmost luxury and facilities some even beyond imagination this spiral competition sets higher expectation of service standards and hotels continuously thrive in to meet the guest expectation along with the daily operational workload. This makes the entire process a very complex matrix and it becomes very difficult to run the show manually. Thus, a PMS is required by the hotels which can help in synchronize the entire process and enables to break it down to its simplest form.

The Major Advantages of a PMS Hotel which Supports a Hotel to Perform Better are as Follows:
Maintains a Bridge with the Online World:
A PMS helps a hotel to regulate its inventory with all the online sales channels automatically and helps the hotel to maintain its presence to all the OTA’s in order to increase its business horizons and revenue generation.
Interdepartmental Co-ordination:
As a hotel has various operational departments which are in direct contact with the guest and it is very necessary to have a better co-ordination among these departments for a better service experience as it is done by a PMS which enables to float or share even the smallest guest information or if any special request made by the guest with all the concerned departments, which helps the hotel in delivering higher service standards creating a “WOW” moment for the guest.
Facilitates Room Inventory Control:
A good PMS helps to in better room inventory control as it enables to maintain all booking under one dashboard which gives clear picture of occupied and vacant rooms and gives a clear picture to the reservation team and helps them in forecasting inventory distribution.
Centralised Monitoring:
The basic advantage of a PMS is that it facilitates central monitoring in a hotel that enables its management to have a better control over the entire operation and helps in better forecasting and laying adequate pathway for the future in order to achieve the desired plan.
Thus, it shows how a PMS has helped the hotels to improve on their efficiency on service delivery standards which enhance the market goodwill and thriving for excellence in this competitive era.


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