Kaba and Intelity announce they have established a cooperative development agreement. The relationship enables the companies to combine their industry leading technologies to make mobile key access more readily available to a wide range of hotels that include brands and independent properties. Additional mobile key-related guest services available through the joint Kaba – Intelity application include mobile check-in and check-out, hotel information, wake up calls, housekeeping and flight information.

Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) announces the launch of the 2016 TechOvation Award competition. HTNG will build on last year's successful revamp of the TechOvation Award, and five previous years as the Most Innovative Hospitality Technology Award competition, to showcase the latest technology solutions and services launched for hospitality over the past year.

Most hotel chains and many individual hotels have their own hotel app – a small program for smart phones, which is supposed to facilitate the check-in process, provide additional information, replace the room key card, and eventually support and facilitate the next booking at the hotel.

Guestline are growing their presence north of the border to support Scottish hoteliers who are experiencing an increase in tourism across the country.

Kaba announced on 1 September 2015 that its merger with DORMA is finalized. The new company, dorma+kaba Group, with pro forma annual sales of more than CHF 2B ($2.1B) and more than 16,000 staff in 50 countries, is one of the top 3 firms in global access control. Kaba provides the Saflok™ and ILCO™ brands of electronic locks. Click here for information on Kaba electronic locks.

MINNEAPOLIS –  IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of revenue management software solutions and advisory services, announced today it has partnered with the ACME Hotel Company to improve demand forecasting and revenue performance with IDeaS Revenue Management System (RMS).

Aptech Computer Systems announce that on October 15 it will provide a thought leadership session on Hospitality Budgeting and Forecasting for international Corporate Performance Management (CPM) leader Prophix. Aptech is the leading provider of hospitality software for business intelligence, budgeting/forecasting, and enterprise financial accounting. Prophix serves more than 2600 companies in 92 countries with its CPM software that automates important financial and operational processes that reduce risks to make companies more profitable. Click here to register to attend Aptech's Hospitality Budgeting and Forecasting session.

Guestline is enabling hotels to increase direct bookings and boost conversions online with WebSuite, Guestline's in-house digital marketing solution. By combining a fully responsive website with a quick and simple booking engine, hoteliers can gain more traffic and drive business through their own website, rather than directing them back to the OTAs, thereby reducing commission costs.

The Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association (HEDNA) and Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) have jointly published a new edition of HEDNA's best practices guide for virtual payment card use, Virtual Payment Cards: A Handbook for Hoteliers. The document will help hotels understand the challenges associated with virtual payment cards, address relevant issues when engaging with distribution partners and develop suitable operational policies. Additionally, as providers across the booking network update their systems in accordance with the new HTNG specifications, this shared set of enhancements will provide an efficient and common method for delivering the information that hotels need to process virtual payment cards appropriately.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of revenue management software solutions and advisory services, today announced the five-star Buddha-Bar Hotel Prague, included in the CPI Hotels portfolio and recent winner of TripAdvisor ´s "Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame," has implemented IDeaS RMS, a market leading revenue management system, to enhance their revenue management approach.