When the Bardessono Hotel in Yountville, Calif., deployed the Room Expeditor (REX) tool from MTech in March 2009, it became the first property in the world to equip its room attendants with an iPod Touch to instruct them on which is the next most important "vacant" room to clean, based on a collection of variables. Today, the 62-room luxury property, managed by MTM Luxury Lodging, is first once again to benefit from streamlined technology integration between MTech's REX and INNCOM's Integrated Room Automaton System (IRAS) that now alerts staff when stay-over rooms also are ready to be refreshed.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of revenue management software, services and consulting, has partnered with RMC Consultores, a leading management consulting company in the Chilean hotel & tourism industry.

VingCard Elsafe, the global leader in hospitality security and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, recently completed installation of its Signature by VingCard electronic door locks and SENTINEL II by Elsafe in-room safes at the NOW Hotel in Santiago de Cali, Colombia. Located in the center of the Zona Rosa business district, this stylish 19-room hotel boasts spectacular views of the Cali skyline, and is noted for using its lobby space as a gallery for new and contemporary Cali artists and sculptors.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of revenue management software, services and consulting, today released a revenue management strategy report compiled by IDeaS Hospitality Consulting, in order to guide London hoteliers towards successfully optimized revenues during the Olympic period.

The hotelier members of Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) awarded the 2010 Most Innovative Hospitality Award to Intelity's "ICE Touch on iPads" at the association's Members' Meeting last week. Applications focusing on guest mobility were valued highly this year. In addition to ICE Touch on iPads, members voted the MobileAccessVE product from Corning MobileAccess, and Allegro Mobile-Web-Kiosk Check-in/Out Solution from Ariane Systems, as runners-up. HTNG senior officers presented the awards at the 7th Annual Members' Meeting of HTNG in San Diego, California on March 3.

Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS) a leading provider of innovative information technology and hospitality software solutions, today announced that Valley View Casino & Hotel in Valley Center, Calif. has selected the Visual One™ suite, including solutions for property management, comp accounting and sales and catering, to streamline operations at its new 108-room hotel, which opened in November. The property has used the InfoGenesis™ POS solution by Agilysys for several years.

Regent Hotels & Resorts, have selected Sabre Hospitality Solutions to help revitalize the hotels' brand using Sabre's proven marketing and distribution solutions.

The Rilano Group, a German hotel group, will implement the Starlight Property Management System (PMS) from SoftBrands hospitality product portfolio at all of its five locations this year. With the SoftBrands solution, Rilano focuses on a single central platform for a unified, enterprise-wide reporting and customer relationship management. This enables the hotel group to further streamline processes in order to continue its growth. The divisions of Rilano include its strategic group along with its operational hotel management for existing and new hotel properties. In addition to the hotels in Kleve and Wolfenbuettel, the company has additional houses in Munich, Hamburg and in the Kitzbühel Alps in Austria.

The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne delivers international hospitality management education leading to accredited Bachelor and Master degrees. Starting this autumn, the school will employ protel SPE in their courses. The single property management system of German protel hotelsoftware GmbH will be used in the two-year hotel management diploma programme.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of pricing and revenue management software, services and consulting, today announced a 95 percent client retention rate and an overall organizational growth of 12 percent in 2010 in spite of the economic environment. In addition, IDeaS expanded its global reach with added deployments of the IDeaS Revenue Management System at Jurys Inn, Mandarin Oriental, Shangri-La, Hamilton Island and Millennium Hotels and Resorts. As more than 443,000 hotel rooms around the world are priced and managed everyday using the IDeaS Revenue Management System, its client base continues to gain a competitive edge during the economic recovery.