Registration and lodge reservations are actually accessible for the 2026 Hospitality Business Expertise Exposition and Convention (HITEC®), the biggest and longest-running, nonprofit occasion of its form. Produced by Hospitality Monetary and Expertise Professionals (HFTP®), HITEC 2026 will probably be held on June 15–18 on the Henry B. Gonzalez Conference Heart in San Antonio, Texas USA.
HITEC brings collectively trade professionals from everywhere in the world to discover the most recent expertise developments, finest practices and market options within the hospitality trade. The exhibit corridor hosts 370+ firms displaying a variety of services and products to assist the hospitality expertise trade to almost 6,000 trade professionals in attendance.
Past the exhibition ground, HITEC options an training program that includes hospitality technology-focused content material offered in a wide range of codecs by knowledgeable presenters. This system is deliberate by the HITEC Advisory Council, a bunch of trade practitioners chosen by HFTP management for his or her expertise and experience. This yr’s council is chaired by Lyle Worthington, CHTP, CEO of Worthington Tech BV and an HFTP World Previous President.
“The advisory council creates the matters, develops and refines the periods, evaluates and prepares each speaker, and even selects the keynotes. It’s no small process,” says Worthington. “I’ve served on this council on and off since 2009, and this yr I am honored to tackle the position of chair. I sit up for working with this distinctive group of trade specialists to convey one other nice training program to you in San Antonio.”
Returning in 2026 is the Entrepreneur 20X (E20X) startup pitch competitors. E20X options bold start-ups presenting their revolutionary hospitality expertise ideas to a room filled with HITEC attendees and a panel of knowledgeable judges. Individuals compete for the possibility to be acknowledged as one of many prime startup enterprise ideas, voted on by the panel of knowledgeable judges (Choose’s Alternative Award) and the viewers (Folks’s Alternative Award). The alternative to use for this yr’s competitors is offered, with a March 31 submission deadline.
HITEC continues to supply exhibit house to resolution suppliers trying to showcase their services and products to hospitality expertise professionals. Go to the occasion’s exhibit website for particulars. To comply with additional HITEC 2026 developments and exhibitor information, bookmark the occasion’s information website.
About HFTP
Hospitality Monetary and Expertise Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is a hospitality nonprofit affiliation headquartered in Austin, Texas USA with an places of work within the EU. HFTP is acknowledged as a bunch supporting the finance and expertise segments of the hospitality trade with a world community of members and stakeholders. HFTP gives knowledgeable networks, academic sources, profession improvement packages, analysis, management alternatives and conferences and occasions. HFTP produces worldwide occasions all year long, together with the world’s largest hospitality expertise tradeshow and convention model: HITEC. As well as, it oversees the publication of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Business (USALI), Lodge On-line and Hospitality Improve Journal. For extra details about HFTP, go to www.hftp.org.
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