Hotel Tech Index

Hopfgarten im Brixental, Austria

Pletzer Resorts

Pletzer Resorts Holding GmbH is the family-operated hospitality division of the Tyrol-based PLETZER Group. It operates five marketed resorts comprising six accommodation properties in Tyrol, Carinthia and Bavaria, with 474 rooms, suites and apartments. The portfolio combines alpine leisure, family, wellness and business accommodation under the shared Move & Relax concept, with restaurants, bars, spa facilities, activities and event space.

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Technology stack

Core Operations & Property Management 1

Property Management System likely

Oracle Hospitality (OPERA)

Property management system

OPERA Cloud is the enterprise PMS standard across major hotel chains and large independent groups, with a broad integration ecosystem (OHIP — Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform).

Revenue, Distribution & Commerce 1

Central Reservation System

Sabre Hospitality / Aven Hospitality (SynXis)

Central reservation system and distribution

SynXis is one of the two or three dominant global hotel central reservation systems, holding rates, inventory and availability and pushing them to the brand website, OTAs, GDS and voice channels; it is bundled with a booking engine, a PMS (Property Hub), a retailing module (Retail Studio) and a unified guest profile (Guest Experience). The business began as SynXis Corporation in 1996, was bought by Sabre in 2005 for $41M, and was sold by Sabre to private-equity firm TPG for $1.1B in a deal that closed on 3 July 2025. On 27 January 2026 it rebranded from Sabre Hospitality Solutions to Aven Hospitality under CEO Teresa Mackintosh — sabrehospitality.com now 301-redirects to avenhospitality.com, so the customer-facing name is changing. It reports 35,000+ hotels in 175 countries and 600+ integrations, and in July 2023 it acquired UK-based Techsembly specifically for hotel gift-card and property e-commerce capability aimed at the luxury segment.

Marketing, CRM & Direct Booking 3

Booking Engine

Sabre Hospitality / Aven Hospitality (SynXis)

Direct booking engine

SynXis is one of the two or three dominant global hotel central reservation systems, holding rates, inventory and availability and pushing them to the brand website, OTAs, GDS and voice channels; it is bundled with a booking engine, a PMS (Property Hub), a retailing module (Retail Studio) and a unified guest profile (Guest Experience). The business began as SynXis Corporation in 1996, was bought by Sabre in 2005 for $41M, and was sold by Sabre to private-equity firm TPG for $1.1B in a deal that closed on 3 July 2025. On 27 January 2026 it rebranded from Sabre Hospitality Solutions to Aven Hospitality under CEO Teresa Mackintosh — sabrehospitality.com now 301-redirects to avenhospitality.com, so the customer-facing name is changing. It reports 35,000+ hotels in 175 countries and 600+ integrations, and in July 2023 it acquired UK-based Techsembly specifically for hotel gift-card and property e-commerce capability aimed at the luxury segment.

Hotel CRM & Guest Management

Re:Guest (ReGuest S.p.A.)

Inquiry handling and guest CRM

Re:Guest is a South Tyrolean hotel CRM and guest-communication platform founded in 2014 in Merano by Michael Mitterhofer, Denis Pellegrini and Stefan Plattner, who had run a tourism marketing agency together since 1999. The product started as an "emotional", web-based alternative to static PDF offers and grew into a full sales-and-marketing suite: guest profiling and segmentation, an omnichannel inbox spanning email, WhatsApp, Instagram/Facebook and a website widget, automated offers and upsell campaigns, newsletter marketing, an AI agent layer branded CR:IS, a BI module, and a web-based guest app covering digital guest directory, F&B/spa/activity ordering and self-checkout. The operating entity ReGuest S.p.A. has been listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange's direct market plus since December 2024 and reported preliminary FY2025 revenue of EUR 6.66m. It is consolidating adjacent hospitality-tech vendors through majority and minority stakes (Zeppelin Hotel Tech, UP Hotel Agency, orderando, Indicate).

Hotel Website & CMS

TYPO3

Website content management

Open-source enterprise content management system, widely used in German-speaking Europe.

Guest Experience & In-Room Technology 1

Guest Messaging

Re:Guest (ReGuest S.p.A.)

Guest communication

Re:Guest is a South Tyrolean hotel CRM and guest-communication platform founded in 2014 in Merano by Michael Mitterhofer, Denis Pellegrini and Stefan Plattner, who had run a tourism marketing agency together since 1999. The product started as an "emotional", web-based alternative to static PDF offers and grew into a full sales-and-marketing suite: guest profiling and segmentation, an omnichannel inbox spanning email, WhatsApp, Instagram/Facebook and a website widget, automated offers and upsell campaigns, newsletter marketing, an AI agent layer branded CR:IS, a BI module, and a web-based guest app covering digital guest directory, F&B/spa/activity ordering and self-checkout. The operating entity ReGuest S.p.A. has been listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange's direct market plus since December 2024 and reported preliminary FY2025 revenue of EUR 6.66m. It is consolidating adjacent hospitality-tech vendors through majority and minority stakes (Zeppelin Hotel Tech, UP Hotel Agency, orderando, Indicate).

Demand Networks & Affiliation 1

Online Travel Agency

Booking.com

Online travel agency

The dominant online travel agency for European accommodation, taking commission (typically ~15–20%) on bookings it originates.

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