HTNG Workgroups

Active Workgroups

Digital Identity *Pre-charter

This working group will bring together global initiatives in the area of digital IDs to create best practices and potential standards to utilize state-of-the-art technology to enable a more efficient check-in process while mitigating payment and fraud risk.

Express PMS Integrations (Phase II) *Pre-charter

HTNG Express is a streamlined, JSON-based message standard designed to simplify and speed up vendor integrations with Property Management Systems. With a focus on lightweight use cases, it supports faster development and testing via a dedicated sandbox environment.

A new workgroup is launching soon, aimed at enhancing the current specification by adding key fields to existing messages and developing a new folio message that enables vendor systems to post relevant charges while maintaining fast and efficient integration.

Optimizing Lodging Content for the Distribution Ecosystem

As the industry has evolved toward various types of selling that include attributes and experiences, it has placed increasing demands for distinct attributes that can be assembled and tailored for consumer shopping. In order to support these new methods of selling, it is vital that the manual and fragmented content distribution process gets transformed into a digital, integrated and dynamic ecosystem.

Payment Optimization

This group will assess best practices in payment optimization, including Alternate Forms of Payment, Guest-Centric Payment Strategies, and B2B Payments. It will also provide best practices and tools for economic justification.

Revenue Management

This team will focus on creating APIs to address evolving revenue management needs.

Seamless Third-Party Payment Data Integration *Pre-charter

The working group will address the data transmission necessary for streamlined check-in processes at a hotel front desk. With the move toward frictionless payment and check-in, third-party bookings will be integrated fully into the customer experience.