Source: Hotel Technology Next Generation
For Immediate Release

CHICAGO (June 18, 2009) -- Some of the most recognizable names within hospitality technology have agreed to share their unique insights in how to manage major technology changes while at Hotel Technology Next Generation's (HTNG) second annual Asia-Pacific Members' Conference in Singapore the 13-15 of July, 2009.

Their sessions will address a number of significant challenges and developments within the hospitality industry. Challenges include implementing green technologies, providing data security, addressing the impact of social media, meeting the demand for technology improvements in a declining economy, managing IT within enormous developments, and preparing for hotel rooms of the future. Members of HTNG will be enriched by some of the best talent in their industry with sessions such as these:

• The Technology Behind the City of Dreams

• Painting the Guest Room Green

• A Practical Approach to Data Security

• The New World of Social Media

• The Evolution of our Habitat...and the Role Played by Technology

• TV from the Internet: Where Will We Find the Bandwidth?

• CIO Perspective on IT Spending in Turbulent Economic Times

These sessions provide hotel managers and technologists with leading-edge knowledge on technology best practices, improving the guest experience through more accelerated and robust deployment of technology, and increasing the overall effectiveness and efficiency of hotels. As an organization that is bringing industry technologists and their suppliers together, HTNG will also highlight the developments of standards and best practices in property technology, payment systems, guest-room systems, distribution, and architecture. For more details about the conference itself, specifics on the sessions, or registration information, visit http://www.htng.org/asiapac09.

About Hotel Technology Next Generation

The premier technology solutions association in the hospitality industry, HTNG is a self-funded, non-profit organization with members from hotel and hospitality companies, technology vendors to hospitality, and other industry members including consultants, media, and academic experts. HTNG's members participate in focused workgroups to bring to market open solution sets addressing specific business problems. HTNG fosters the selection and adoption of existing open standards. Where necessary, it also develops new open standards to meet the needs of the global hospitality industry.

Membership in HTNG is open to hotel and hospitality companies, technology vendors to hospitality, consultants, academics, press and others. Currently more than 400 corporate and individual members from across this spectrum, including most of the world's leading hotel companies and technology vendors, are active HTNG participants. Workgroup proceedings, drafts, and specifications are published for all HTNG members as soon as they are created, encouraging rapid and broad adoption. Specifications are released to the public domain as they are ratified by the workgroup. For more information, visit www.htng.org.