Hotel Tech Index

Marketing, CRM & Direct Booking

Email, SMS & Marketing Automation

Campaign sending, lifecycle journeys and cross-channel orchestration. Often the only guest-data capability a small group actually has.

11 vendors, by listed deployments

Vendor Headquarters Founded Properties Rooms
ADDITIVE Lana, South Tyrol (Italy) 2 377
Brevo Paris, France 1 610
Mailchimp Atlanta, USA 2001 1 406
Braze New York, NY, United States 2011 0 0
Eagle Eye Solutions Group Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom 2003 0 0
Giggle.tips DACH / Europe 0 0
Re:Guest (ReGuest S.p.A.) Merano (Meran), South Tyrol, Italy — with additional offices in Bolzano (IT) and Rugby (UK) 2014 0 0
Revinate San Francisco, USA 0 0
tt•consulting (TT GmbH) & tt-digital Lana, South Tyrol (Italy) 0 0
Zeta Global Holdings New York, NY, United States 2007 0 0
Zimres South Tyrol (Italy) 0 0

Who runs what

Every listed property that has a email, sms & marketing automation on record, and the vendor filling that role. Confidence is shown where the finding is not directly confirmed.

Property Location Vendor Role Rooms
Manotel Geneva, Switzerland Brevo (likely) Newsletter / email marketing platform — account provisioned against the domain, but not (or no longer) an authorised sender 610
Manz Privacy Hotels Switzerland Zurich, Switzerland Mailchimp Newsletter platform — but split across THREE separate Mailchimp accounts, and two properties have no newsletter at all 406
The Tschuggen Collection Arosa, Switzerland ADDITIVE Marketing automation / newsletter 330
Hotel Weisses Kreuz Mals / Malles Venosta, Italy ADDITIVE Newsletter and marketing automation — the incumbent guest-data layer 47

ADDITIVE

Email/SMS

South Tyrolean online-marketing agency and software house for hotels, operating from Lana. Its product line runs under the ADDITIVE+ brand: MARKETING AUTOMATION (the platform), MARKETING INSIGHTS (tracking and reporting), CRM (segmentation), VOUCHERS (voucher and incentive marketing) and NEWSLETTER. Deployed per hotel on its own tenant under additive-apps.tech.

Lana, South Tyrol (Italy) 2 listed properties

Brevo

Email/SMS

Marketing platform (formerly Sendinblue) offering email, SMS, chat and light CRM automation.

Paris, France 1 listed property

Mailchimp

Email/SMS

General-purpose email marketing and automation platform (Intuit), widely used by smaller hotel groups in place of a hospitality-specific CRM.

Atlanta, USA Founded 2001 1 listed property

Braze

Email/SMS

A customer engagement platform for designing and running personalised, cross-channel communication — push, in-app, email, SMS, WhatsApp — driven by real-time behavioural data and journey orchestration. Deliberately not a points or rewards system: Braze moves messages, it does not hold balances.

New York, NY, United States Founded 2011

Eagle Eye Solutions Group

Loyalty

SaaS platform (AIR) for real-time, personalised promotions, digital coupons and loyalty execution, delivered at the moment of transaction across POS, app and e-commerce. Strong in grocery and QSR; increasingly AI-led on offer personalisation. Sold as a promotions and loyalty execution engine rather than a currency or coalition system.

Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom Founded 2003

Giggle.tips

Upsell

Experience and ancillary commerce platform for hospitality — 'the new way of experience communication in hospitality'. Sells experiences, services and activities across the whole guest journey, with a public API, reseller programme and integrations into 100+ hotel tools. Positions itself explicitly on 'growth beyond the room'.

DACH / Europe 1 listed property

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

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).

Merano (Meran), South Tyrol, Italy — with additional offices in Bolzano (IT) and Rugby (UK) Founded 2014 2 listed properties

Revinate

CRM

Hotel guest-data platform and CRM: builds rich guest profiles from PMS data and drives email/SMS campaigns, upsells and direct bookings.

San Francisco, USA

tt•consulting (TT GmbH) & tt-digital

Web agency

Tourism consulting and marketing agency at Eurocenter Block A, Industriezone 1-5, 39011 Lana, trading as tt•consulting (TT GmbH). Sells 'Konzept, Design, Programmierung, Beratung und Marketing' to hotels — but unlike a pure web shop it also runs its own product line under the tt-digital brand: a newsletter/subscription platform, an online gift-voucher shop widget, a first-party visitor tracker (ttracker.js) and a marketing-attribution helper, plus a Powermail-to-ASA bridge that posts website enquiries straight into the hotel's PMS. Builds on TYPO3 with a self-managed tarteaucitron consent layer as the house default. Headquartered in Lana, the same town as ADDITIVE.

Lana, South Tyrol (Italy) 3 listed properties

Zeta Global Holdings

Email/SMS

An AI-driven marketing and data cloud combining identity data, omnichannel activation and — since the 2025 Marigold enterprise acquisition — genuine loyalty capability via Marigold Loyalty and Cheetah Digital. Positioned to Fortune 500 marketing organisations rather than to operators.

New York, NY, United States Founded 2007

Zimres

IBE

Booking, guest-communication and payment tool for hotels, deployed on a per-hotel subdomain (e.g. <hotel>-booking.zimres.com) and built on Laravel Livewire. Positioned as a complement to the hotel's existing PMS rather than a replacement: online booking and enquiry from the website with staff-adjustable prices, discounts and conditions, distribution to booking platforms, guest communication and payment. Its product also includes a VOUCHER TOOL that lets guests buy and personalise vouchers on the hotel website with online payment, and transfers the voucher automatically into ASA Hotel for redemption.

South Tyrol (Italy) 1 listed property

Other categories

Running several of these systems at once?

Blue connects an existing hotel stack into one guest profile and one loyalty balance across every property — without replacing the PMS.

Visit Blue