Chicago. The Mandarin Oriental in Munich is currently in the process of introducing interactive television with 1,000 channels to its hotel rooms. Innovations like these don’t happen by chance. They are the result of targeted research, development and communication. The birth place of such innovations is Chicago, headquarters of HTNG. The abbreviation stands for ”Hotel Technology Next Generation”. Here, leading hotel chains work together with the world’s leading hospitality technology companies on the formulation of technology solutions for the hotel of the future. hospitalityInside is as of today media partner of HTNG. Look forward with us to top information and top interviews from the world of tomorrow’s technology, so that you, dear hospitalityInside reader, know exactly where and how you should invest for the future. To begin, we present HTNG in a short portrait.