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The types of hotel software systems

Traditionally, hotels across the world would use manual methods to handle the different aspects of hotel operations. It was tedious, time-consuming, and prone to errors, to say the least. Maintaining records of a small property manually was still simpler than handling a bigger property. Let us take the example of a guest house with three or four rooms maintaining manual registers for hotel bookings, check-ins, checkouts, accounting, etc. Even if it is not a very efficient process, the manual register was still better than using the process for a hotel that has twenty-five rooms or even more. Back in the 1970s, the automating system of managing hotel operations via the hotel software systems was introduced. The on-premise software systems made a difference in how hotels operated before this. On-premise systems transformed the day-to-day functioning of hotel operations and also added value to the organizational goals, sales and revenues. Things, however, took a leap in faith at the beg