Preno wants to help hotels fly autopilot

Preno wants to help hotels fly autopilot
Preno chief executive Amelia Gain.
Henry Burrell
A hotel management software company with over 500 customers in 25 countries is seeing a rise in direct hotel bookings in New Zealand post-lockdown.Amelia Gain, the co-founder and chief executive of software company Preno, told BusinessDesk more New Zealanders are shunning sites like Booking.com than they were before covid-19.“Guests are becoming more aware of the commission that Booking.com takes, so [they are] also trying to book direct with properties as much as they can. That’s what we're seeing domestically.”She said t...

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