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Buried amid all the hype and hoopla over the upcoming new Apple Watch is a possible game changer for travelers everywhere: the era of losing your hotel cardkey may soon be extinct.

Starwood Hotels — the hotel group that owns Sheraton, W Hotels, Westin and several others — is developing an app for the Apple Watch that will allow hotel guests to use it to unlock their rooms. Just wave it in front of the door and there you go!

Imagine that. No more poking through your wallet to find your missing cardkey (which all too often turns out to be hiding on the dresser in the locked room you’re trying to get into). No more embarrassing journeys to the front desk to get a replacement. If you have the watch (and a compatible iPhone), you can get into your hotel room.

Starwood had already started testing an iPhone app that allows guests to use their phones to unlock their rooms.

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