Business View Magazine | January 2020

38 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 To expand their business development and help move hospitality forward, 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 and also develops new open standards to meet the needs of the global hospitality industry. The organization facilitates 10-15 working groups at any given time which each focus on a trending topic or problem in the hospitality industry. Through bi-weekly meetings, HTNG’s members meet via teleconference to address these problems and collaborate to develop a deliverable for the industry. Workgroup deliverables can range in anything from best practices, white papers, self-assessment tests, buyer’s guides and more. Challenges the Hospitality Technology Industry Faces HTNG’s current workgroups are as follows: 5G for Hospitality, API Registry, Blockchain for Hospitality, Business Analytics Transactional Extract, Converging AV and IT, Fiber to the Room, Frictionless Check-In, Global Privacy Regulations, Improving the Guest Wi-Fi Experience, Internet of Things (IoT), Payments, Open Payments Alliance (OPA) Standards, Staff Alert Technology, Unique Global Identifier and Wireless Power. While all of these topics matter to the hospitality sector in their own ways, the following fragments are going to walk through some of the groups that have made recent leaps Marketing Manager (HTNG), Emily Wilson