Innovation

Hospitality Technology is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Hotel Visionary Awards, which honor hotel companies for their outstanding achievement in delivering technological, operational and overall excellence to guests within the last year.

CityCenter's ARIA Resort & Casino and the Mandarin Oriental hotel are leveraging a technology from Control4 to give guests control of every aspect of their room environment, while providing CityCenter with an unparalleled control of energy usage.

Upon opening in January, the Santa Claran Hotel Casino will utilize Agilysys' Guest 360, an open database and cross-platform PMS that utilizes Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide a highly scalable and flexible solution.

As the iPhone and its App Store continue to take the mobile community by storm, many hospitality operators are quickly jumping onto the bandwagon to cash in on the growing trend. Learn what it takes to get an iPhone app up and running from Pizza Hut, Chipotle and Choice Hotels.

According to a blog posted by Google product marketing managers Ryan Hayward and David Kim, Google's new window decal initiative centers on a unique bar code, known as a QR code, that enables users to go up to a storefront and immediately find reviews, coupons and more through their mobile phones.

Holland America Line will install five Microsoft Surface units in Mix, its newest lounge venue with three specialty bars, enabling guests to collaboratively and simultaneously interact with content and each other.

CitySearch's decision to incorporate Twitter's new Sign-Up API allows local businesses to tweet from their Citysearch profile page by either integrate their existing Twitter presence, or creating a new account directly from the Citysearch business profile page.

SeaWorld mapped out every inch of its 10 theme parks with a state-of-the-art imaging solution that turns photographs into the interactive and completely moveable 360-degree scenes that Google Map's Street View is known for.