Le Bijou, a Swiss luxury hospitality company has begun offering a coronavirus-themed package. Luckily for this company, becoming a quarantine hotel was not a difficult transition. Le Bijou has always offered a fully automated experience, with no human interaction, even during check in. Guests control their experience through a private app which offers a remote concierge service that can be used to order meals, groceries, and cabs, or schedule private chefs or massages. Their luxury suites are complete with amenities like kitchens, private gyms, saunas, and fireplaces. <

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Certain calamities seem unduly well-suited to particular industries. It’s hard to make the season’s catch of tuna during a bad year for hurricanes. Humvees and Limousines are a tough sell during periods of chronic, global fuel shortages. Locusts and drought can ruin a year’s crop. But nothing could have wiped out a major sector of the economy more thoroughly than the Coronavirus-19 did for hotels and travel.<

Renters need their landlord’s savvy as much as their compassion during the coronavirus health crisis. As of last week, rent was due for the first time for millions of frightened Americans, who now find themselves out of work during the coronavirus pandemic. Many renters are in a difficult position because the $2 trillion dollars economic rescue package provides far more to homeowners. These homeowners who have lost work are entitled to deferred mortgage payments, enabling them to continue to pay their regular payments again when they are able, by adding additional months on to the back end of their mortgage to make up for deferments. Landlords, property managers and residential building owners are all afforded these same benefits.<

Small business owners, especially those in the hospitality industries, have been some of the hardest hit by the coronavirus. Bars and nightclubs were some of the first ordered to close by the government, with restaurants following soon after. Many of these small business owners were thrilled to hear the government was working on a $2 trillion-dollar economic stimulus package, which has since been approved and put into law as of last week.<

With the rapid spread of coronavirus, the coworking industry has been forced to make difficult decisions in response. With many states implementing stay at home orders, which call for the closing of all non-essential businesses, coworking during the coronavirus has become largely impossible. Remote workers in other states are also making the decision to stay home in an effort to practice social distancing and help slow the spread of the virus. The negative effects of the virus are being felt everywhere, including in the coworking sphere. There is no doubt our world will be changed when we are able to return to “normal,” and coworking facilities will have to adapt in order to survive a post-corona world.<

Numbers for restaurant worker layoffs and furloughs are at an all-time high, with the U.S. Department of Labor reporting the industry lost 417,000 employees in the first 2 weeks of March alone. This staggering number is equivalent to two years of industry growth. Before March, the restaurant business had been consistently thriving for years. Due to the rising sickness and death count from COVID-19, states severely restricted dine-in services at restaurants to slow the spread. This change forced restaurants to protect their business by letting people go, consequently representing 60% of the total job losses for the month.<

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The Coronavirus Pandemic hit New York especially hard. In scenes straight out of the Hollywood apocalypse genre, the city’s wealthiest citizens mostly fled for the hinterlands. This scenario is, in fact, as old as time. Romans running from the bubonic plague, ante-bellum southerners moving to higher ground to avoid yellow fever, the British Raj in India dodging malaria-ridden mosquitos during the monsoon season – if one can find commodious accommodation in times of peril, one takes to one’s heels.<

You’ve worked hard to create the perfect vacation getaway for guests. Whether it’s a single apartment in the city, a multi-unit beach complex, or a country setting bed and breakfast inn, you need a reliable residential property management system to help your operation run smoothly.

That’s where Booking Ninjas can help. With our property software, you won’t have to worry about missing a single detail when it comes to taking care of your property or your guests. Best of all, you can handle it all from your smartphone or computer, because our PMS System lives on a mobile platform. That means you can track data, make reservation changes, process payments, and more from a single app on your iphone or other mobile device.


The Future Train Has Arrived; Got Your Ticket?

With digital technology, the travel industry has undergone the biggest revolution it has seen since the invention of the steam engine. Gone are the days when vacationers relied on their neighborhood travel agent to find the hot spots and book their passage. Today’s explorers are largely made up of millenials who compromise 71% of the world’s population. This is a generation who grew up on cutting edge technology. It’s estimated that they check their phones at least 43 times a day. They expect to be able to access information about the world wherever they’re standing. In fact, 66% of travelers now say that Instagram posts influence their own travel plans. With the most reliable, sophisticated, up-to-the minute residential property management software your future guests can view your property photos, book their stay and order their gluten-free breakfast all on your website. And if they can’t, you’re losing their business. 
With the Booking Ninjas seamless pms system, your property will remain plugged in to all of the relevant social media platforms. Moreover, because you’ll be operating on a mobile platform yourself, you can update your property’s postings...from a thousand miles away.


What Does A Property Management System Do?

At Booking Ninja, we have partnered with leading online technology experts to bring you the widest variety of efficient, reliable applications for your property’s unique software needs. Based on your property’s data, we will tailor booking and availability pages, housekeeping and maintenance logs, guest self-check in and secure access codes, payment processing platforms, policy stay requirements, customer profile data gathering and more. If your business needs an online tool to run more competitively, we will find the app to solve your problem or create one for you. Plus, we keep it simple: all of your businesses and online platforms will live in one PMS System App. Whenever you need something, you’ll have one place to look – on any mobile device. And when you make a change on one platform, say, an update on your reservations page, for instance, that change will go into effect across all of your property’s social media platforms and third-party travel booking sites. Booking Ninjas saves you from having to jump from Facebook to Instagram to your company website to travel sites around the web constantly updating information. Using our residential property management software, all of your property’s information will remain streamlined and up-to-the-minute.


Sounds Complicated. Is It?

Many property managers find the idea of layering in complex, cloud based technology into their business operations a daunting task. Booking Ninjas makes it easy, with a seven-phase process that builds the right residential property management software system with you, the property manager, as co-creator. When the system is up and running, we stay close at hand, ready to make any changes or alterations you feel are needed. Once you’re satisfied, you can enjoy having central command for your property in one single app that goes where you go, right on your mobile device. Having all of the real-time information you need will make you the savvy host that travelers today are seeking. With the PMS system, you know what time your guests checked in, you know they’d like to eat in the restaurant tonight (you know to forewarn them that the chef just ran out of Sea Bass), you know their credit card payment went through, you know they want apple juice with their corn flakes in the morning, you know that room 322 has a leaky faucet. But your guests are at your property in Bangor, and you’re in Bali. No problem. Whatever is happening, you’re on top of it, whether you’re on location, or on vacation, you’ve got the Booking Ninjas Residential Property Management System working for you.

If you enjoyed this blog, sign up to our email list and we’ll notify you when a new blog is posted. If you know someone who manages a property, learn more about our property management system as well as the option to try out a demo version of our software! Of course, there are plenty of other great PMS features that you can learn about at bookingninjas.com. 

Not yet ready to commit to a PMS? Our founder and CEO David Harroch conducts weekly webinars on our software that you can sign up for here. No strings attached! 

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