Leveraging OTA and PMS management expertise for hotel front-desk AI: Former Yahoo Booking Division Head and Dynatech CEO Katsuya Saito appointed as Cotel AI Advisor

Cotel AI Inc. (Headquarters: Setagaya-ku, Tokyo; Co-CEOs: Junya Miyashiro / Takuto Maruyama), provider of the AI platform 'Cotel AI' for the hospitality industry, announced that Katsuya Saito, who served as Head of the Booking Division at Yahoo Japan Corporation (now LINE Yahoo Corporation) and President and CEO of Dynatech Inc., has been appointed as a management advisor. In domestic hotels and inns, while room occupancy is rising due to the recovery of inbound tourism and overtourism, front-desk operations are under severe strain. To address these issues, Cotel AI has developed and provides 'Cotel AI,' a front-desk AI platform that takes over routine operations such as reservation confirmation, discrepancy detection, guest request extraction, and initial guest communication without changing the existing PMS. Mr. Saito has a rare background of leading both OTA and PMS businesses, having driven the expansion of Yahoo's hotel booking business and managed the 'DYNA PMS' product at Dynatech.