SMARTreport - Deuromedia
SMARTreport - Deuromedia
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HTNG<br />
(Hotel Technology Next<br />
Generation)<br />
Douglas Rice<br />
Executive Director<br />
Douglas C. Rice has been working as Executive Director of Hotel Technology<br />
Next Generation (HTNG) since September 2004. Mr Rice moved into the<br />
HTNG executive role from a successful career spanning more than 15 years<br />
as a consultant to senior executives throughout the hospitality industry. He<br />
was one of the original visionaries and founders of HTNG, recruited many<br />
of the CIOs that formed its first Board of Directors, and has remained<br />
integrally involved throughout the early years of the organization, serving as<br />
Executive Advisor to HTNG since the organization was formalized.<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
Interview with...<br />
Tracking Emerging Technology<br />
Spotlight on the HTNG European Meeting in Lausanne<br />
With HTNG’s European meeting again<br />
taking place in Lausanne, we spoke to<br />
Mr Rice about the main thrusts of the<br />
organisation, and what outcomes are<br />
expected from the meeting...<br />
The main thrusts of our conference are<br />
always multi-fold. One is to update our<br />
members on the accomplishments and<br />
directions of our various work group<br />
activities. Each group spends between<br />
20 minutes and more than an hour<br />
going through the specific things they’ve<br />
done, talking about the benefits for<br />
hotels and about how vendors can<br />
engage with some of their initiatives<br />
and some of their future directions. The<br />
other thing our conferences always<br />
emphasise is thought leadership. We try<br />
to identify some areas of emerging<br />
technologies that aren’t being covered<br />
well by other conferences in the industry<br />
and find speakers who can address<br />
those issues and present some thought<br />
provoking ideas about how these<br />
technologies can be used in hotels. As<br />
far as the European activities go, we<br />
have now more and more of our<br />
workgroups that are engaging with<br />
European hoteliers and vendors... we<br />
now have two work-groups that have<br />
regular meetings in Europe. We have<br />
other work-groups that still have most of<br />
their regular meetings in the US, but that<br />
still have significant European<br />
participation, and a lot of the<br />
presentations will be made by the<br />
Hotel <strong>SMARTreport</strong> October 2007 – April 2008 / 3
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