Business View Caribbean - August/September 2018

48 49 A ntigua is a small island in the Caribbe- an. As the island is a luxury tourist des- tination, there are many small hotels and resorts scattered across the coun- try. If you were a guest at one of Antigua’s small hotels before the late 1980s, your reservation would have most likely been handled manually by a desk clerk who would have filled out a paper form in ink. It would then have been put it in a file drawer for later reference. ANTIGUA COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ANTIGUA COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ANTIGUA’S SINGLE SOURCE TECHNOLOGY PROVIDER AT A GLANCE ANTIGUA COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY WHAT: A single source technology provider WHERE: St. John’s, Antigua WEBSITE: www.actantigua.com This manual procedure became obsolete by 1988. Salomon Doumith, who had just graduated from the University of Miami, formed a company with his partner, Riccardo Romei, and worked to bring Antigua’s small hotels into the information age. The company born from their vision is Anti- gua Computer Technology, commonly referred to as ACT. The company’s first product, a hotel guest management software, was a billing and reserva- tion system that allowed hotel administrators to track reservations, know who was in their rooms, how much their guests were to be billed, and what taxes they were required to pay. In its early years, ACT continued to evolve soft-