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August 20, 20194 min read

Case Study: AKA, the Global Leader in Luxury Hotel Residences, Provides A Personalized Resident Experience Using Maestro Multi-Property Cloud PMS

Case Study: AKA, the Global Leader in Luxury Hotel Residences, Provides A Personalized Resident Experience Using Maestro Multi-Property Cloud PMS — Photo by NORTHWIND-Maestro
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Reena George, Director of IT for AKA said, "Each AKA property is unique and caters to varied clientele seeking luxury accommodations for stays of a week, a month, or longer. To manage our 11 US properties, we needed a property management system that would support our flexible stay options, deliver multiple ownership and management reports, provide powerful data analytics, interface with many 3rd party systems, have professional North American 24/7 support, and manage it all on a single database system in the Cloud. We also wanted a remotely hosted system that required minimum property infrastructure. The Maestro Web PMS Multi-Property System was the perfect software solution for the AKA Collection."

Solution: The Multi-Property Maestro PMS Cloud Hosted System

Multi-Property Front Office and Housekeeping Management
Guest CRM and Central Reservations Management
GEM - Guest Experience Measurement Survey
Analytics Business Intelligence, Data Mining and Reporting
Online pre check-in and registration
Mobile Check In, Digital Reg Card & Signature Capture
Yield Management Rate Optimization

The Benefit

One of the main reasons AKA Collection decided to implement Maestro Multi-Property was the systems flexibility and its team's ability to understand AKA's requirements and meet them. AKA's business model is a hybrid, geared towards longer stays and different than a traditional transient hotel. This impacts many operational areas. Housekeeping is one example. There are many packages offered based on many factors one of which is length of stay. Maestro handles all these requirements. Another example is AKA's reporting which requires specialized financial and performance reports that may be different for each property. Maestro's Analytics Business Intelligence data mining delivers great transparency into performance at portfolio, property and resident levels. AKA's Team leverages operational, financial and ancillary data in Maestro for business-wide insight.

George noted that Maestro's flexibility extends to 3rd party system integration. "Our properties each have different 3rd party systems that must communicate with our front office system. Maestro's platform provides an open API capability that makes it very easy for our other system vendors to interface with the PMS. This saves us time and development costs."

Maestro also provides guest-facing functionality that personalizes the guest journey. AKA Collection residents are experienced travelers; they expect to be recognized and their preferences known. Maestro's single image guest database tracks and records all past stay requests and experiences and presents them to AKA's staff before check-in so they are prepared for their arrival with their favorite amenities. AKA uses Maestro's Guest Experience Measurement, GEM.

AKA Collection offers residents seamless check-in experience. Maestro's iPad Mobile Check-in and Signature Capture lets AKA's front office teams meet the customer expectations, provision resident interaction and offers quick check-in. Maestro support was also important to AKA's decision. Maestro's support is 24/7 based in North America and its team members are hospitality professionals that understand AKA Collection's business and its unique processes.

The Maestro Property Management System delivers flexible and scalable deployment options with an identical full-featured web browser or windows solution available in the cloud or on premise. Maestro's revenue-generating hotel management software tools and services increase profitability, drive direct bookings, centralize operations and provide personalized and mobile guest service tools to enhance the guest experience. Click here for more information on how to engage and socialize with Maestro PMS.

About Maestro PMS

Maestro is the preferred cloud and on-premises PMS solution for independent hotels, luxury resorts, conference centers, vacation rentals, and multi-property groups. Maestro's PCI certified and EMV ready enterprise system offers 20+ integrated modules on a single database including web and mobile apps to increase profitability, drive direct bookings, centralize operations, and enable operators to engage guests with a personalized experience. For over 40 years Maestro's Diamond Plus Service has provided unparalleled 24/7 North American based support and education services to keep hospitality groups operational and productive. Click here for more information on Maestro.

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