Hotel Brand -- Boutique/Lifestyle

PM Hospitality's properties use hotelServicePro to track and resolve guest problems, generate work orders centrally and at the hotel level, perform inspections, and manage preventive maintenance and fixed assets.

VingCard unveils its new patent-pending wireless RF-online solution for standalone electronic locks. The VISIONLINE system operates on the ZigBee high-security open platform and offers modular packages and straight forward upgrades from offline to RF-online locks.

Despite hardships faced by the lodging and event industry this year, 2009's Hotel Technology Forum proved to be its best yet with powerhouse presentations from MGM Mirage's CIO Scot Campbell and more.

The findings for Hospitality Technology's 2009 Self-Service Technology Study are in, and the results point to a growing consumer demand for self-service tech and a plethora of next-gen solutions that harness personal devices.

Property management system integration is one of the key pain points in any lodging operation, given the vast number of systems that any one property runs and the number of vendors involved. Operators share their top strategies for integrating the PMS with other hotel systems.

A growing roaster of hotels are selecting LodgeNet's interactive television system that requires hoteliers to pay an ongoing support fee and share a portion of entertainment revenues in exchange for expedited installation and greater control of content, pricing, and customization.

AOL Travel is integrating Travelscream's travel content to provide users with travel offers specific to locations they are investigating.

Bingtravel.com from Microsoft is the latest travel planning search engine, and it has functionality robust enough to compete with the major online travel booking sites. Bingtravel.com aims to significantly simplify the planning process for travelers through smarter selection tools, including a price predictor, rate indicator, travel deals for flight and hotel, comparison flight and hotel search, fare alerts and original travel articles.