HTNG has rechartered its GDPR for Hospitality Workgroup to build upon the group's White Paper and Self-Assessment outputs produced in Q1 of 2018. The group's previous work included key considerations, use cases and impacts of the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in hospitality.

ALICE, the leading hospitality operations platform, and Percipia, the industry innovator in telephony solutions, software, and services, have partnered to provide The Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston with convenient in-room digital signage to enhance the guest experience.

Accelerating its strategy to reimagine the business of travel, Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) today announced a long-term strategic agreement with Microsoft. As part of this new agreement, Microsoft will empower the migration of Sabre's commercial applications to Microsoft Azure by investing cloud development expertise and services in support of Sabre's vision to lead an industry evolution in retailing, distribution and fulfillment.

If you haven't been to HITEC yet, you are missing out on the biggest hospitality industry technology exposition and conference of the year. 2018's HITEC kicks off on June 18th in Houston, where C-level hospitality executives and the top technology industry experts will gather for four days of in-depth demonstrations and networking.

SkyTouch Technology, a premier hotel Property Management System (PMS) provider, announces a new group multi-rate feature for its SkyTouch Hotel OS. This feature adds the ability to have varying rates for different nights of a group stay.

KEYPR®, the technology company whose enterprise cloud platform is the leader in guest experience and hospitality management, announced today that it has partnered with Headspace to deliver its wildly popular guided meditation and mindfulness sessions to hotel rooms worldwide via KEYPR's in-room tablets.

Next month C-level hotel executives will meet in Houston to attend HITEC, the world's largest hospitality industry technology exposition and conference. One of the hottest solutions on the market today, Beekeeper, voted the "Most Innovative Technology" for 2018 by HTNG, will showcase its simplified, secure, and easy-to-use tool that stores in one convenient location anything a worker needs to excel in their daily routine. This award-winning workplace communication app is proving to be integral for engaging multi-lingual employees without emails. Discover how to connect colleagues across locations and departments in real time and provide a secure, automated, and relevant flow of employee information that is readily distributed, searchable, and measurable in one central hub, by visiting Beekeeper in Booth 1702, June 19 to 21, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

We can't escape the topic of AI today. In a world of big data and personalization, it's shaping how we approach everything in the hospitality industry. But as powerful as artificial intelligence is, machine learning must be leveraged alongside hotel expertise and data management strategy to drive forward smarter, more accurate marketing results.

SkyTouch Technology, pioneer of the first 100% cloud-based Property Management System (PMS), announces the SkyTouch University learning management tool and enhancements to its SkyTouch Customer Community. Known for its intuitive hotel property management software, SkyTouch delivers an approach to learning that can dramatically reduce the time it takes for hotel staff to do their jobs better and more effectively. Moreover, SkyTouch customers can now customize training modules to educate staff on their unique on-property best-practices and processes for achieving key objectives, such as improving the guest experience and driving revenue.

ALICE, the hospitality industry's leading operations platform, will showcase its complete suite of hotel management and guest engagement products at this year's HITEC in Houston, June 18-22, at Booth 2319. Schedule an appointment with the ALICE team here.