8Hotels Joins Typsy as an Investor

Melbourne, Australia, September 26, 2016

Paul joined Typsy as an investor because he saw how Typsy’s mission and approach to improving the skills and confidence of the hospitality industry directly supports 8Hotel’s passionate service philosophy. 8Hotels is committed to thinking progressively, exploring new ways of doing things, and meeting challenges head on.

Paul describes his excitement at discovering Typsy, “I’ve always been fascinated with culture and people, and the different ways of achieving the best possible service levels for 8Hotels. When I saw the benefits of the Typsy platform, and met the team behind it, I was hooked!”

Typsy is an online training platform that helps hospitality professionals learn and perfect industry-specific skills through bite-size video courses. Typsy offers training for every aspect of the hospitality industry, from service to business operations.

By focusing on staff training, businesses are investing in their own future. Typsy’s content caters to newcomers as well as experienced workers, and aims to train a new generation of motivated, passionate and knowledgeable industry professionals.

Hospitality industries worldwide are facing skills shortages. These difficulties put the tourism sector at risk if not addressed. Jonathan Plowright, founder and CEO of Typsy, notes:  “The future of the industry depends on training and motivating the current and future workforce to greater heights. Social media and online reviews have put the customer solely in the box seat, and those businesses that don’t invest heavily in training and customer service will simply get left behind.” Typsy is addressing this need by taking hospitality training online with easily accessible, specialised and engaging video content.

With support from 8Hotels, Typsy is collaborating with the industry’s best to help hospitality professionals perfect their skills. Typsy’s course library currently consists of over 200 course titles and is said to grow to 300 in the next 6 months.

About Typsy

Typsy is an online training platform for the hospitality industry. Typsy’s courses help owners, managers, teams and individuals learn the hospitality skills they need to be successful. The bite-sized courses are presented by the world’s best instructors, including the World Barista Champion and Electrolux Young Waiter of the Year. The course library consisting of over 200 titles across a variety of topics is ever-growing and accessible on mobile and desktop. Learn more at www.typsy.com or download the app in the Google Play Store or App Store.

Mission statement:

‘Bringing you hospitality tips from the world's best.’

About 8Hotels

8Hotels began in 2003 by leasing a 14 room hotel in Sydney's Darlinghurst and by 2013 had grown into a market-leading boutique hotel management company with a collection of 21 hotels and over 1200 rooms located throughout Australia and abroad.

In 2014 and 2015 8Hotels successfully completed a company transformative divestment strategy of selling some core hotel assets and terminating agreements on non-core hotels. This further strengthened the 8Hotels balance sheet to embark on a new phase of growth through development, ownership and management of key hotel assets via our fully integrated operating platform.

Currently, new hotels are being developed in Haymarket, Surry Hills, Pyrmont, Green Square and Sydney Airport.

For more information, please visit our website http://typsy.com