HFTP planning events including 2018 Club Engagement Conference

HFTP has announced plans for HITEC India, HITEC Asia and the 2018 Club Engagement Conference. Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP), producers of Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC), announced today they are laying the groundwork to further globally expand the HITEC brand by also producing HITEC India and HITEC Asia. Educational events HITEC India and HITEC Asia will follow the successful HITEC brand that launched in North America in 1972. HFTP’s North American version HITEC Toronto, the largest HITEC of 2017, will take place from 26-29 June at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario Canada. “Expanding HITEC to India and Asia has been a goal HFTP has worked towards for several years. It is time that we moved from the goal stage to the planning stage,” said HFTP International President Lyle Worthington, CHTP, CIO at The Student Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “As a global association with members spanning six continents, we believe that the expansion of HITEC will be an opportunity to build the exchange of information within the hospitality technology community, which has gained immense importance within the industry.” After HFTP’s strategic planning conference in Amsterdam, HFTP has added many new benefits for its members this year. Expanding its club segment education to include a Club Engagement Conference in March of 2018, a new Hospitality Data Protection Officer programme, development of new performance indicators for clubs, new chapters of the association and finalising a research center located in Dubai, UAE later this month. “As a non profit organisation whose purpose is to improve the industry, HFTP continues to respond to its stakeholder’s requests’ for meaningful projects that expand the industry,” said HFTP CEO Frank Wolfe, CAE. “Unlike other educational organizations that operate for-profit, HFTP events are planned by our volunteers and executed by our paid staff. It is this recipe that makes our events so successful. Our education is planned by the industry, for the industry, and the proceeds go back to the industry.”