Tech-savvy students in Copenhagen can access their accommodations using their smartphones, now that CPH Studio Apartments has adopted the latest technology with ASSA ABLOY Hospitality Mobile Access. CPH Studio Hotel, known for its beachfront location and modern Scandinavian design, provides an experience that stresses innovation and maximized convenience for its residents. As the property focuses on a younger demographic that expects the latest amenities and operations, CPH Studio Hotel needed to ensure that its services could satisfy the mobile- device-oriented lifestyles of its student residents.

Our industry's big data story continues to bubble over with an increasing amount of emerging data sources – including social media, reputation management engines, web traffic sources, weather and airline data. However, when you throw every piece of data together, it can be inundating and hard to determine which ones positively impact your bottom line.

Recent discussions have been swirling around the revenue management industry and its swift evolution over the past few years, moving steadily past merely filling as many rooms as possible to holistically approaching the quest for achieving total revenue performance. However, approaches and technologies have not been the only revenue management components swept up in these influential winds of change. The lives of hotel revenue managers have also experienced drastic changes in not only their job responsibilities, but in their overall work efficiencies, insights and performance.

Hospitality Technology magazine (HT), a multi-media B2B brand serving the hotel and restaurant technology industries, and Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), a global not-for-profit trade association run by and for the benefit of hotel IT executives, have announced plans to merge their North American hotel technology conferences. HT's existing Hotel Technology Forum (HTF) and HTNG's North American Conference provide education and networking for the hotel technology industry. The combined event will leverage the strengths of the two organizations to create a single conference produced by HT magazine — Hotel Technology Forum: the official HTNG North American Conference.

MONTREAL, QC, CANADA –  Kaba, the provider of Saflok™ and ILCO™ electronic locks, announced that the 2015 merger of Dorma with Kaba, now dorma+kaba Group (SIX: DOKA), created 35 new North American offices to support installation and service of Saflok and ILCO electronic locks. The offices, associated service centers and their teams expand and strengthen Kaba's ability to more quickly meet hospitality industry demand for its electronic lock implementations. For more information on Kaba electronic locks, click here.

Jonas Software, a division of Constellation Software Inc, has acquired Multi-Systems Inc (MSI), a leading provider of mid- market property management software solutions serving the North American hotel industry. MSI joins Springer-Miller Systems (SMS) in Jonas Software's growing hospitality software group, providing solutions for hotels, resorts and spas.

The latest Guestline user to benefit from significant revenue gains after installing Guestline's solutions is the Wilmslow Lodge, located in the heart of Wilmslow, Cheshire. Matthew Abbott, General Manager of Wilmslow Lodge, took over the property 3 years ago and was quick to maximise the potential from the Guestline systems that were in place. During this period, Wilmslow Lodge increased their average room rates by 50% and boosted occupancy levels to 91%. This has resulted in their end of year figures rising from £400,000 to £800,000 in just one year.

HotSchedules, provider of cloud-based technologies that automate restaurant operations, and Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software and services, today announced a strategic partnership that adds the power of HotSchedules' world-class workforce management platforms to the award-winning Agilysys hospitality solution portfolio. With this partnership, customers will benefit from an integrated POS and labor management solution that can help them create schedules 75 percent faster and save on average 2 percent on labor costs, all while streamlining operations and enhancing the guest experience.

To General Managers, there might be no more important data than their guests' reviews. While this may not seem like data to most of us, reviews are the single metric that all of our hoteliers agreed on tracking. And it makes sense when you consider that ultimately, the goal of any hotel is to create an experience worthy of a return guest, and what better way to gauge success than to obsessively monitor guest evaluations? But the impact of guest reviews doesn't stop at helping GMs gauge their success.

If you're like most people checking in at a hotel, you head straight for the front desk (or bypass it with a mobile app), b-line to your room - where you maybe raid the mini-bar, have a shower or take a quick nap - and head right back out. And, if you're like most guests, you're likely missing out on one of the biggest benefits of staying in a hotel: the concierge.