It would then, for example, be possible to use a kiosk in a hotel lobby to check out of the hotel, look up the status of your flight, and then check in for it.

ECONOMIST: REPORTS

If your tolerance for Brooklyn preciousness is low, limit yourself to dinner and resist the urge to check out the hotel rooms upstairs: they are lovely in a reclaimed-wood-and-exposed-brick kind of way, but the twee factor is pretty intense.

NEWYORKER: Reynards

The major hotel chain that figures out a way to implement "anytime check-in" on a mass scale will become the new Hilton.

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