IT Write Up Report 2022

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IT Write Up
IT for business
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9/25/2019

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Contents
IT for Tourism Industry: Intercontinental Hotel Group.............................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Overview of Business................................................................................................................3
Background on information security breach in business...........................................................4
Need of IT in business................................................................................................................4
Importance of IT for business survival......................................................................................4
Required resources to apply IT in business................................................................................5
How chosen business use IT......................................................................................................6
Benefits and advantages of IT....................................................................................................6
Risk of IT...................................................................................................................................7
How selected business can maintain and monitor IT.................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References................................................................................................................................10

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IT for Tourism Industry: Intercontinental Hotel Group
Introduction
This report is based on identifying IT role in tourism industry while exploring its significance
for the hospitality sector of tourism industry. To do so, a well-known hotel group has been
chosen as ‘Intercontinental Hotels Group’ (IHG) so that recent information security (IS)
breaches can be explored and studied for addressing those issues effectively. Based on
(Sharp, 2017), this report will discuss IT role for IHG’s business in the context of present and
future as well. The purpose of the report is to analyse IS breach while covering cyber security
as well as suggested IS practices of their information and network systems. This report will
help readers include IT, directors, CIOs (Chief information officers) to advance IS policy of
electronic info in hotels. While discussing benefits of IT for IHG business, this report will
also suggest security tools and techniques in order to ensure enhanced information security
for the group’s computer networks (Bhavani, 2013). In addition, need for IT for IHG business
along with importance of IT for their business survival will be discussed in detail. In this
way, risks of IT, monitoring as well as maintenance need of chosen business will also be
covered in this report.

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Overview of Business
IHG offers true hospitality services worldwide with more than 1000 hotels in actually more
than 100 countries all across the world. It is one of the top leading hotel companies in the
globe. The purpose of the chosen business can be explained as to offer true quality hospitality
services for the global people (Stallings et al., 2012). The IHG has continuously achieved its
business goal by identifying as well as respecting people while creating memorable guest
experiences. The IHG has so many hotel brands working under the group name which are
classified into three major categories include:
 Mainstream: Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn club vacation, avid,
Staybridge Suites, and candlewood suites.
 Upscale: Hotel Indigo, Even Hotels, Crown Plaza, Voco, and Hualuxe
 Luxury: Regent, Kimpton, Intercontinental, and Six Senses (Sharp, 2017).