Your smartphone is your hotel room key at 10 Starwood properties

Earlier this year, we told you how Starwood had started testing the use of smartphones as hotel room keys on some of the company's properties. As we told you back in January, the new technology is being employed by the W Hotels and Aloft hotels. These two Starwood brands are known to attract a well-off crowd of tech-savvy travelers.



Currently, the technology is being used by ten hotels in major cities such as New York, LA, Beijing, Hong Kong and Doha in Qatar. Individual hotels that are part of the project include the Aloft Beijing, Aloft Cancun, Aloft Cupertino, Aloft Harlem, W Doha, W ...