ORLANDO | Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) today announced that it will develop an open standard through which any two systems used within the hotel industry can exchange any mutually agreed data. Based primarily on prior HTNG work, initial versions of the standard should be available by late summer.

SOUTHLAKE, Texas | SynXis, the Sabre Holdings business that provides hotel distribution and Internet marketing services globally, announced today that ResortQuest Hawaii has chosen SynXis as their distribution provider and to be the full service call center for their 26 properties. ResortQuest Hawaii is using the RedX Distribution Management System to distribute their inventory to the Global Distribution Systems (GDS), third party travel sites and for the booking engine on their own website (www.ResortQuestHawaii.com). Since switching to the RedX platform ResortQuest Hawaii’s bookings across all channels have increased over fifty per cent.

IDeaS, the leading provider of hospitality revenue optimization solutions and one of America’s fastest growing technology companies, announced IDeaS V5i Revenue Management solution is certified under the Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) Certification Program.

Portsmouth, NH | Newmarket International, Inc., the leader in sales and catering solutions for the hospitality industry, today announced that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sean O’Neill, will participate on a panel of experts at this year’s HITEC hospitality industry trade show in Orlando, FL. The closing session, “2007 I.T. Challenges: Suppliers Respond”, will be co-moderated by the president and publisher of Hospitality Upgrade magazine, Richard Siegel, and MGM Mirage’s City Center’s vice president of business solutions, Scot Campbell.

MINNEAPOLIS | SoftBrands Inc. (AMEX:SBN) , a global supplier of enterprise application software, today released a pricing model aimed at making it easier for independent hotels to benefit from the latest in property management system (PMS) technology. SoftBrands' new pricing model reduces the need for a hotel to secure capital expenditures and make the typical one-time, up front payment by instead charging a monthly rate per room.

WESTON, FL | Datavision Technologies, the leader in business intelligence systems for the hospitality industry, has installed Datavision Dashboard™ at Biltmore (Asheville, NC). Datavision extracts and consolidates data from disparate systems such as PMS, POS, Payroll, Ticketing, etc. into a single data warehouse. Top level information is then brought together onto a single graphical dashboard - room occupancy and revenue, food & beverage information, ticket sales, retail revenue, etc. along with key metrics such as budgets and per-capita spending.

COLUMBIA, Md. | MICROS Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce that Loews Hotels, with 18 properties in the United States and Canada, has selected the OPERA Reservation System (ORS) and OPERA Web Suite (OWS) as the central reservation application for its hotels and resorts. Deployment is scheduled for the fall of 2007.

New Hartford, NY | PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc. (PSMS, a wholly owned subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PTC) --- and the leading provider of guest-centric hospitality management systems --- is pleased to announce several key management changes.

BETHESDA | E-site Marketing, the premier internet marketing company specializing exclusively in online business solutions for the hospitality industry, has published a White Paper titled Web 2.0 for the Travel Marketer and Consumer in collaboration with the International Association of Online Communicators (IAOC). The white paper, presented by Felix Laboy, president of E-site Marketing, at the recent IAOC Annual Meeting, reveals the growing trends in Internet usage by today’s travelers including: social networking sites, consumer generated content and web applications that facilitate content and media syndication (think MySpace, YouTube and Wikipedia as the trailblazers in non-travel segments). In the paper, Laboy discussed how Web 2.0 will transform the travel industry in completely new ways, just as what is now referred to as “Web 1.0” changed everything with the creation of hotel Websites, qualified traffic generation to those sites and new technology to research and book travel.

CHICAGO | Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) announced today that technology leaders from across the spectrum of the industry will be available to meet with attendees of the Hotel Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC), being held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida from June 25-28. Senior hotel technology executives and technical leaders of HTNG’s integration efforts will be available at the HTNG booth #373 throughout the show’s exhibit hours.