Hôtellerie et restauration: la technologie pour tirer parti des opportunités de marché - Christopher Meignier (BLENT)

🎙️ THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED IN FRENCH. Transcripts are available on our ⁠website⁠ (resilienttourism.ch/podcast) Christopher Meignier is the CEO and co-founder of BLENT, a Swiss business intelligence company created in 2019 that produces dashboards and reports updated in real time for hotel and restaurant chains. BLENT provides an answer to the problem of compiling and analysing data from several systems (stay, services, F&B, wellness, accounting, reputation, competition, HR, etc.) on multiple properties. Artificial intelligence allows each level of management to optimise its activities and resources in real time and to anticipate the future with powerful forecasting tools. In this episode, Christopher Meignier explains the mission of BLENT and gives recommendations to the hospitality industry regarding the use of technology for easing business operations and taking better decisions.  ---- In the Resilient Tourism Podcast Series, we aim to spread a culture of innovation with our guests from all corners of Switzerland. We thrive to inspire the Swiss Travel & Hospitality professionals to shape the digital transformation of the sector.  We want to connect the leaders of Switzerland and share the best practices. Interested? Let's take a ride together! 🚀 You will find inspirational talks from industry experts and professionals that will present their success stories in innovation, digitization and datafication of the sector. We hope to inspire you to take action and be part of the transformation! This podcast is part of the Swiss Resilient Tourism Flagship Project - an initiative funded by Innosuisse to support the datafication of the travel sector in Switzerland in order to create resilient digitally supported services, business processes and business models. This improved data intelligence strategy will strengthen the competitiveness, resilience and sustainability of the tourism ecosystem in Switzerland. Learn more about the project at www.resilienttourism.ch In conformity with Switzerland's multicultural identity, this podcast is presented in four different languages (FR; EN; IT; DE). This content is produced by the EHL Hospitality Business School with the support of Innosuisse.