Industry standards for handling customer credit card information

September 29, 2011

At least sixteen major hotel groups from around the world plan to work together to develop an industry security framework for handling sensitive credit card data. 

Intended to dramatically improve the security of credit card processing by and for hotels while significantly reducing costs, the effort has been chartered as a working group of Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG). 

HTNG is a non-profit trade association that has developed solutions and standards in use throughout the hospitality industry, including interface standards for credit card processing and security. Read more