HotelTechReport Announces Its Picks for the Best Hotel Tech Apps of 2024

Originally published here in Hotel Technology News

HotelTechReport, the global software research platform used by more than 2.5 million hotel tech buyers annually including 100% of top 5 global chain properties represented, today revealed the winners of the 2024 HotelTechAwards. Now in its seventh year, the HotelTechAwards rank the world’s best hotel tech companies and products based on authentic, timely reviews from real users – including lists for the 10 Overall Hoteliers Choice Awards, 10 Best Places to Work in Hotel Tech, as well as additional lists based on key software categories in the hotel tech stack ranging from property management systems, revenue management systems, contactless check-in solutions and more.

Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of Lighthouse says: “HotelTechReport provides the most transparent, customer feedback-led information on which people in industry can base their decisions. Hoteliers appreciate being able to share their views with each other in an open, no-holds-barred forum with their peers. HTR offers this and has been a real and positive disruptor in creating a new, industry-specific portal to showcase unbiased views on hotel tech. Its awards showcase the best of these reviews, and hoteliers trust them.”

Sankar Narayan, CEO at SiteMinder says: “We at SiteMinder believe strongly in the essence of openness; it is what underpins the very core of what we stand for, and the HotelTechAwards, through the program’s data-driven and transparent process, aligns firmly with this value.”

136 products qualified for the competition from a pool of 2,631 companies across the industry listed on HotelTechReport.

“We originally created the HotelTechAwards as a democratized way to help our fellow hoteliers quickly determine best of breed vendors based on data they can trust and the scope of the competition this year is a testament to how far the industry has come in the last decade.  The HotelTechAwards rating process is simple, transparent, and unbiased–judging is based on time tested ranking factors, publicly available data, and crowdsourced insights from verified hoteliers who have hands-on experience with each product.”

Overall Hotelier’s Choice Award Winners for 2024 included:

1. SiteMinder
2. Canary
3. Cloudbeds
4. Lighthouse
5. Asksuite
6. Duve
7. Mews
8. Duetto
9. Profitroom
10. RateGain

The most popular product category winners were (view the best hotel tech apps of 2024):

1. Hotel Management Software (Cloudbeds)
2. Property Management System (Mews)
3. Channel Manager (SiteMinder)
4. Guest Messaging Software (Canary)
5. Contactless Check-in (Canary)
6. Revenue Management System (Duetto)
7. Upselling Software (Oaky)
8. Rate Shoppers (Lighthouse)
9. Hotel CRM (Profitroom)
10. Hotel Guest Apps (Duve)

Additionally, the following companies ranked within the top 10 for Best Places to Work in Hotel Tech:

1. Asksuite
2. Canary
3. RoomPriceGenie
4. Cloudbeds
5. WebRezPro
6. Oaky
7. Mews
8. Duetto
9. Actabl
10. Flexkeeping

The HotelTechAwards are often referred to as “the Grammys of Hotel Tech” and winners were selected from the top technology products around the world. The HotelTechAwards are the industry’s only data-driven awards platform with winners determined not by a handful of judges or popularity votes but by a global community of thousands of verified hotel technology users across more than 127 countries.

View the complete lists for 2024 HotelTechAwards and read more about HotelTechReport’s scoring methodology.