Hotel Visionary Awards

Winners will be announced live on Dec. 15 at the 2021 HT-NEXT conference in Scottsdale.

Edwardian Hotels London, Hyatt, Motel 6 and RLHC make up this year’s Hotel Visionary Award winners.

Choice Hotels International, IHG, Hyatt, and The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas make up this year’s Hotel Visionary Award winners.

The 2018 Visionaries are Caesars Entertainment, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Worldwide, EAST, Miami and Nordic Choice Hotels. 2

Innovative hotel companies focus on centralizing, streamlining and removing friction from enterprise and customer-facing operations.

Digital concierge and a global procure to payment strategy win high honors for customer-facing and enterprise innovation from Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Grand View Lodge.

Every year, Hospitality Technology magazine seeks to acknowledge lodging leaders who have succeeded in achieving measurable impact on service and operations with forward-thinking tech initiatives. The 2015 Visionary Awards were presented to Hilton Worldwide, for its rollout of digital room selection; Fontainebleau Hotel, for its achievements with a speedier mobile check-in strategy; and SilverBirch Hotels & Resorts, for its infrastructure upgrade and ERP project that delivered operational improvements and positioned the company for continued growth. This month's cover story features exclusive interviews and profiles of the award-winning initiatives.

In the competitive lodging and travel industry, hotel operators are seeking innovative ways to drive business and enhance the service they provide to guests. Technology is increasingly becoming a key differentiator. Hospitality Technology has selected three lodging operators to honor with 2014 Hotel Visionary Awards. Red Lion Hotels for its inspired website and booking channel, La Quinta Inns & Suites for its performance management solution, and Mandarin Oriental for its physical IT test lab that mimics an actual guest room. This month's cover story offers exclusive interviews and profiles of each award-wining initiative.