Dubai, January 2015: INTEREL, the world’s fastest growing manufacturer of integrated room technologies in the luxury hospitality industry, has announced that the company will be the Title Sponsor of the Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) North American Conference, which is set to take place in San Antonio, Texas from 23-26 February 2015.
As a Platinum Industry Partner, INTEREL has been an active member of HTNG since early 2012. Last year INTEREL was the Title Sponsor of the 3rd Annual HTNG Middle East Conference as well as a sponsor at the 2014 European Hotel Technology Conference.
At last year’s HTNG North American Conference, INTEREL’s Augmented Reality Room Control App was named first runner-up at the HTNG Innovation Awards. The App depicts and virtualizes the guest’s actual room using augmented reality. The room visualization dynamically changes through an interactive and intuitive mobile interface, in which the guest controls the room environment and the room environment responds. The second innovation of the INTEREL AR App enables the guests to control virtualized panels on the mobile user interface, just the same way the guests would use the panels physically installed on the walls of the room. Both highly innovative solutions are built in HTML5 and add significant value and impact to the hotelier’s mobile strategy.
Florian Gallini, Group CEO of INTEREL said: “We are delighted to sponsor our third HTNG Conference in February this year. Following the highly successful events in the Middle East and Europe in 2014 it was a natural next step for us to take up the title sponsorship of the 2015 North American Conference, especially with the recent establishment of our local presence in the Americas.”
He added: “We have been involved in the global HTNG conferences for many years and the events have proven to be a great technological and business platform for us. We are excited to participate once again and plan to submit our latest innovation for consideration at the TechOvation awards.”
“We are delighted to welcome INTEREL back to our North American conference, this year as our Title Sponsor,” said Douglas Rice, Chief Executive Officer of HTNG. “It is a strong showing of support for our organization, and also will benefit all of this year’s conference attendees through an exciting evening event on the San Antonio Riverwalk.”
