The hotel industry is working hard at the moment to develop new and better room keys; multi functional ones, or even making them disappear completely, having you open your door with your smart phone.
The scariest thing I heard about was the RFID-enabled loyalty cards that can be used as keys. At Hyatt, they use the RFID key-card information to track guest's arrivals; When travelers first use their permanent key upon arrival, for example in the elevator, a message pops up on the front desk computers letting Reception know the guest has arrived in the hotel. A few minutes later, Reception calls up the guest room to welcome him or her to the hotel.
If that happened to me, I would freak out (first time at least), but at the same time I must admit, I find it really interesting.
However, here at Riad Flam, we still use our regular... well, keys. I guess it's already classified as "Old school".^^
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