Today is the start of  VDA WEEK, an event dedicated to the internal community, that celebrates a prestigious anniversary, namely 40 years of our own brand’s history. With live streaming connecting all the VDA offices that will participate in the event (UK, APAC, MEA and HQ), we wish you all to tune in on the 17th, 18th, and 19th November.From the launch of the new product to VDA Tales, it will be a week dedicated to internally retracing the entire growth process that has allowed VDA to become the market leader that we know today. There has been 40 years of constant commitment, demanding challenges, difficulties to overcome but also great satisfaction and many successes. We would like to think of this anniversary as a stage in the path that we have undertaken, a goal that is above all, a new starting point made up of new reflections, and new perspectives. In recent years we have understood that to achieve one's business expectations it is necessary to build one's own independent path, albeit with all the uncertainties, throwing our hearts in to get over the obstacles, whilst keeping steady the aim of the goal, that transforms one's vision into reality. [...]

Hotel In-Room Technology plays a fundamental role in pursuing responsible choices for energy saving and the protection of the environment, whilst at the same time guaranteeing the best hotel guest experience.   With rising awareness of environmental changes and ever growing eco-tourism, the challenge for hotel technology to approach new directions for energy savings, optimising management costs whilst improving profitability is becoming even more necessary and is seen as an integral part of any project development. With its 3,000 hotels, and 250,000 Smart Rooms, VDA Group moves easily within this evolving context providing guests a truly unique experience, being fully aware of environmental issues and energy consumption, managing a mix of clientele in terms of age group, differing cultural backgrounds, and varying recreational and leisure needs. VDA Room Management Systems are conceived in order to micro-manage energy consumption, and related features, from a central control system, minimising infrastructure costs, maximising energy savings, comfort, and security. The room climate and its environment settings are precisely controlled within hotel defined energy consumption models, which can easily be modified on a global or individual room basis, as and when required. This provides the property with complete ability to keep the room temperatures at [...]

Digital and artificial intelligence are really changing the approach to tourism, especially in hotels and the hospitality sector. With the sector experiencing a slow restart in this post-covid phase, it will now, more than ever, rely on an important and constantly evolving ally, namely technology. Making the guest's stay smarter, whilst helping to facilitate the work of hoteliers, are the most common requests in the world of hotels today. VDA, which has been providing hotel automation solutions for 40 years, also this time has not held back in this area. Through a collaboration with Volara Voice Hub, VDA has implemented the first integration between room automation systems in the Middle East, Micromaster, VDA's Guest Room Management System, and voice control of Amazon Alexa. The activation of voice control inside the hotel room allows guests to interact with the amenities available inside the room, by turning lights on and off, opening and closing curtains, changing the air conditioning settings, or contacting Reception in order to request specific services. In addition, the high levels of security implemented ensure that personal information, guest conversations, and proprietary data, are protected. Bringing this solution into this accommodation means that helping to simplify the approach of guests to [...]

Phase 2 has just begun, and operators throughout tourism, those that have suffered the most from the consequences of the pandemic, are preparing to face the summer season, whilst living with this health emergency. According to CNA estimates, the tourism sector representing 12% of Italian GDP will experience a 73% contraction, with a 44.1% drop in turnover, when compared to 2019. These forecasts led many hoteliers to quickly seek solutions, with many ideas coming from technology. In an historical moment, in which man has been forced into social distancing, automation and IOT prove to be important allies, because they allow hoteliers to welcome their guests safely. In this context, VDA Group, a leading Italian company in the home automation sector for hotels, with offices in Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, has collected the multiple requests received from hoteliers, and has thus grouped them into the main areas for intervention: reducing contact with surfaces of usually high contact (i.e. remote controls, telephones, thermostats, switches, and keys), avoiding gatherings in the Reception area during Check-in and Check-out, encouraging room service, and also managing access control. "We are aware that the reopening of the accommodation facilities is a very delicate moment," says [...]

VDA Group is attending the third edition of HospitalitySud, the hospitality and hotel trade show in Naples, Italy. HospitalitySud is the only appointment in the Center South dedicated to supplies, services, training for operators in the world of Hospitality. We look forward to seeing you at Stand 61 Sala Galatea. Find out more