RateGain, a pioneer in competitive price intelligence solutions, has formed a strategic alliance with Barefoot Consultancy who specialise in the optimisation of its client hotels' revenue. RateGain's solutions are currently being used by more than 1700 hotels worldwide. These solutions monitor and distribute on '000s (thousands) of channels that not only include web direct hotel sites but also OTA sites (both regional and global players) as well as social media.

Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), the membership association that unites the world's hospitality companies and technology innovators to solve industry challenges, today announced that its member hoteliers had voted to award the 2012 "Most Innovative Hospitality Technology Award" to the Personal Media Network™ from Quadriga. The award is given annually to the technology that became available for use at hotels during the previous year.

MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce the release of a certified MICROS interface for Louvre Hotels Group. This interface allows Louvre Hotels Group to display price and availability information next to its hotel listings in Google search results, Google Maps and Places pages, and Google Hotel Finder. As this capability is live, this valuable data is now available to the global Google audience.

Singapore-based The Ascott Limited (Ascott), the world's largest international serviced residence owner-operator, has engaged Xn Hotel Systems to implement protel's Multi-Property Edition (MPE) property management system globally across its three brands of serviced residences – Ascott, Citadines and Somerset. Ascott is the first serviced residence company to implement this system on a global scale.

RateGain released this week's Hotel Pricing Trends and Hotel Rate Parity report. A single window BI dashboard, which enables revenue professionals on cheapest rate visibility, tracking hotel rate parity along with median rate for three (3) months of three, four and five star hotel category across some of the major cities in European region.

PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc. (PSMS) --- a wholly owned subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PAR) and the leading provider of guest-centric hospitality management systems --- today announces the appointment of Mr. Tat Meng Chee as Regional Sales & Channel Manager for the Asia Pacific region.

The Westin Harbour Castle couples world-class service with high-end guest computers from Eleven, to deliver a perfect balance of service standards and evolving technologies. With over 70,000 square feet of event space and located in the Toronto waterfront and business hub, The Westin Harbour Castle is host to high business traveler traffic. Before adopting ElevenBC for their business center, The Westin Harbour Castle manually charged guests for computer use and printing; the lack of automation led to lost revenue and inefficiencies.

Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), the membership association that unites the world's hospitality companies and technology innovators to solve industry challenges, today announced the availability of the HTNG Secure Payments Framework for Hospitality. The Framework is a collaborative effort of over a dozen HTNG members representing the world's major hotel groups that will improve payment card security across the industry, and greatly reduce the cost and complexity for hotels of all sizes of satisfying Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS).

VingCard Elsafe, the global leader in hospitality security and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, has participated, with other ASSA ABLOY group companies, in providing an integrated solution for event staff to use their Xperia T NFC-enabled handsets to access their hotel rooms during this year’s Mobile World Congress, taking place February 25-28 in Barcelona.

OpenWays, the leader in mobile-based access-management and security solutions, and FCS Computer Systems, a leading global provider of comprehensive hospitality guest services applications and solution design services, announce an integration partnership that is enhancing mobile travel experiences for guests and improving bottom lines for hotels. FCS i-Guest, a self-service mobile application, now has OpenWays' Mobile Key embedded inside, making the arrival process far more convenient, personal, and stress free for hotel guests.