{"id":427,"date":"2009-08-17T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2020-01-21T10:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:03:58","slug":"htng-2009-asia-pacific-members-meeting-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/htng-2009-asia-pacific-members-meeting-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"HTNG 2009 Asia-Pacific Members&#8217; Meeting &#038; Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">I recently went to Singapore to attend <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">HTNG&#8217;s Second Annual Asia-Pacific Members&#8217; Meeting &amp; Conference<\/span>. It took place from 13-15 July 2009 at the luxurious Ritz-Carlton &#8211; I was on the 22nd floor and enjoyed every minute of my stay, relishing the overwhelming view of the Marina Bay.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The HTNG member meetings are generally great and it was no different this year. It brought together key industry executives and eminent speakers who talked about thought leadership and HTNG workgroup progress reports.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">It was an excellent platform to interact with like minded people ready to adapt to new technology. I met quite a few IT heads and GMs from various hotels and chains.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">There was an interesting session on <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Hotel IT spending in the current scenario<\/span> with panelists being CIOs of various hotels. It was good to get first-hand knowledge on what their priorities are currently.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The conference had an ideal mix of hoteliers and technology providers with around 150 people attending the event. As per the agenda, latest updates of the activities of various workgroups including In-room solution, Architecture and Property\/Distribution Solutions, were shared with us.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The key take-away was the details of new technology and upcoming trends received from the core teams of different workgroups. Data security, green room technology and role of social media were the hot topics; other topics included technology updates on revenue management, online distribution and related areas.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">I feel it was an event worth attending as it provided excellent rapport building opportunities and first-hand information on how the industry is faring. These kind of events give that realistic feel and allow you to compare between analysts forecasts and actual scenario, and accordingly decide your next move forward.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;\"  >Udai Singh Solanki is the CIO at RateTiger where he steers the development team, oversees organizational process and IT strategy. He also looks into Information Security and Management. Udai is passionate about innovation and keeps himself abreast on latest happenings by attending events and tradeshows. He is based in eRevMax\u2019s technical development centre in Kolkata, India.<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went to Singapore to attend HTNG&#8217;s Second Annual Asia-Pacific Members&#8217; Meeting &amp; Conference. It took place from 13-15 July 2009 at the luxurious Ritz-Carlton &#8211; I was on the 22nd floor and enjoyed every minute of my stay, relishing the overwhelming view of the Marina Bay. The HTNG member meetings are generally great &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/htng-2009-asia-pacific-members-meeting-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HTNG 2009 Asia-Pacific Members&#8217; Meeting &#038; Conference&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,283,1005],"tags":[78,297,112,55,766,14,873],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotel-channel-management","category-hotel-online-distribution","category-hotel-pricing","tag-distribution","tag-events","tag-hospitality","tag-hotels","tag-pr","tag-ratetiger","tag-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}