Overview

The premise of the workgroup is that hotels should have a single point of entry from which they can manage rich content in all connected distribution and promotional channels.  Distribution and promotional channels should have a single point of access, from which they can receive rich content from all connected hotels and hotel companies.  And intermediary content service companies, who perform services such as image enhancement, mapping, and translation, should have a single point of access, under the authority and control of the hotels, so that they can receive content updates, perform their enhancement services, and forward the results onward to the next stage in the editing, approval, or distribution process.

Current Status

This workgroup is currently active.

Click here to view the latest informational flysheet of the workgroup that was distributed at HITEC 2008 (PDF).

Applications for Participation

This workgroup is actively seeking additional participants, with particular emphasis on the hotel community.

Interested parties should read the information on applying for HTNG workgroups and teams here.

Scope

Include all systems that deal with content that describes hotel products, and that is essentially static in nature.  To the extent that the workgroup deals with information that may be considered transactional (such as rate plan descriptions), the scope may include such information upon agreement of the Property Distribution Workgroup.

Participating Companies & Organizations

• AltiusPar

• Amadeus Hospitality

• Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association

• IBM Corporation

• InterContinental Hotels Group

• Lanyon

• Leonardo Media BV

• MICROS Systems

• Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts

• OpenTravel^TM Alliance

• Pegasus Solutions

• Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

• SynXis

• Translations.com

• TravelCLICK

• Travel Technology Initiative

• TRUST International

• VFM Interactive

• Wipro Technologies

• Wyndham Worldwide Corp.