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Most travel tech people don't see the opportunity for better hotel booking and reservations management coming from the restaurant industry -- as the response to OpenTable purchase demonstrated. This is the next great opportunity for startups in travel.
Lavu Inc. in Albuquerque has made a huge splash in the restaurant industry with its point-of-sale software to conduct business on mobile devices, but now the company is launching a new system for the hotel industry, scheduled for launch next week.
Like the original system, which allows all customer service and back-end operations at restaurants to be managed on tablets and smartphones, the new system will permit hotel operators to use mobile devices for everything from booking reservations and handling checks-ins to tracking housekeeping and providing room service to guests, said Lavu cofounder and Chief Te
