Bangkok, Thailand—The American Resort and Lodging Affiliation (AHLA) introduced a collaboration between Hospitality Know-how Subsequent Era (HTNG), its resort expertise community, and the newly shaped Japan Hospitality Know-how Affiliation (JHTA). This alliance will permit Japanese motels to make use of HTNG’s standardized interfaces to enhance effectivity and make visitor experiences extra seamless and constant.
JHTA was created in March 2025 to advertise knowledge standardization in Japan, advance using business knowledge, and assist the implementation of recent expertise, amongst different targets. Below the settlement introduced right now, JHTA will translate HTNG’s expertise interoperability requirements from English to Japanese to be used in Japan. JHTA plans to create its personal commonplace extensions to higher assist the precise wants of Japanese companies.
“HTNG’s mission is to place the collective knowledge of hospitality expertise leaders to work in fixing frequent issues and unlocking international enterprise potential,” mentioned David Sjolander, CAE, vp of AHLA for HTNG Operations. “Our collaboration with JHTA represents a significant advance in that mission.”
“Our collaboration with AHLA, representing Resort & Lodging business in america, will improve our interoperability with international requirements.” mentioned Yuuki Kameoka, director of JHTA. “We’re thrilled to strengthen the worldwide competitiveness of the Japanese Lodging and Tourism business.”
The collaboration was introduced on the HTNG Join: Asia-Pacific 2025 assembly in Bangkok, which introduced hospitality expertise professionals collectively from all over the world to listen to from prime specialists about traits within the sector.