About Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) certification

The following brief note is on Hotal Technology Next Generation (HTNG) Certification:


Primary website: HTNG

The main benefits of the HTNG certification initiative is:

a. Easier interoperability among systems used in hospitality, based on its open standards across hotel systems
b. HTNG certification promotes software purchasers' confidence in purchasing hotel software products, e.g. software products' completeness
c. HTNG certification specifications facilitate software purchasers' evaluattion on hotel software products
d. Software clients can obtain information about the HTNG certification, thus reducing uncertainty in software product evaluation
e. HTNG Register maintains and enforce ongoing conformance by registered software vendors with it.


Try to review the content of HTNG website with the literature on IT standardization; Examine what have been discussed in the IT standardization literature and the (a) find out whether the concepts and viewpoints in the academic literature are mentioned in the HTNG documents; and (b) try to evaluate the ideas and viewpoints in the HTNG documents using notions and theories from the academic literature on IT standardization (i.e. to conduct a theory-driven analysis).