EVT Hotels and Resorts plans to ditch plastic keycards across its portfolio, adopting mobile wallet keys instead. The move makes EVT the first multi-brand hotel group to launch mobile wallet hotel keys and follows similar technology rollouts at Leura Gardens Resort and across YHA Australia’s network. EVT will roll out the mobile wallet keys across its QT, Rydges, Atura and LyLo properties over the next year, the largest-scale introduction of the technology by any Australian hotel group to date. By placing room access directly into Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, EVT is ensuring no plastic keycards are required, with everything now stored digitally within Apple Wallet or Google Wallet for faster access and reducing the chance of losing keys. Mobile wallet hotel keys remove another point of friction from the hotel experience and give guests a simple, seamless way to access their stay from arrival through to departure.