Industry NewsOracle Hospitality and PolyAPI Receive AHLA's Technology Acceleration Award

Oracle Hospitality and PolyAPI Receive AHLA’s Technology Acceleration Award

LISBON, Portugal—The American Hotel & Lodging Association and its technology committee, HTNG, announced that Oracle Hospitality, in collaboration with PolyAPI, received AHLA’s Technology Acceleration Award.

The award was presented at the HTNG Hotec European Conference in Lisbon.

Each year, the AHLA Technology Acceleration Award recognizes companies that have taken steps to advance innovation in hospitality. This year, the award shows companies that have adopted HTNG Express, a new solution that shortens the process for post-booking hotel property management system integrations from months to days.

Oracle Hospitality joins other companies that received the Technology Acceleration Award in June at the Hospitality Show. Those recipients were: Actabl, Agilysys, Belmond, BOUNTE Inc., BluIP, Clairvoyix, Directful, Hapi, Instio Experiences Pvt Ltd, iOpen Innovations, Logistics, Phonesuite, TigerTMS, TipQwik, and Visual Matrix.

“Each year, the Technology Acceleration Award recognizes the most important technical achievements that improve hospitality for employees and guests. This award is an important driver of innovation for our industry, and we at AHLA congratulate Oracle Hospitality for its extraordinary work in earning this recognition,” said AHLA President and CEO Chip Rogers.

Next year, AHLA’s Technology Acceleration Award winners will be announced at The Hospitality Show 2024, which will be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio from Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, through Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024.

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