Added: 04/11/2006 |
The Aims and Perspectives of HITIS ProjectThe goal of HITIS Project can be defined as identification of general functions of property management systems and standardization of their implementation, as well as development of a common hospitality relevant data dictionary. The mission of HITIS Project is to streamline the consensus based process to establish standards for the evolving computerized system's integration and sub system transactions.
In July 1999, the HITIS Advisory Committee has come to a decision to designate the Extensible Markup Language as the primary platform for the Hospitality Industry Technology Integration Standards. All the HITIS standards are based on the Internet Specifications, providing definition of the basic data types and giving names to general practices and conventions found throughout the fifteen individual interface standards.
In February 2000, the HITIS Project, launched and maintained by the American Hotel and Motel Association, has successfully developed seven standards of the Central Reservation Systems, which bring the total number of HITIS standards to fifteen. Completed standards feature remote devices for computer interfaces management between electronic lock system and posting devices, used generally to communicate information from the sub-system to guest's folio.
In March 2000, the work of the Infrastructure Technical Committee was underway towards agreement on the HITIS standards' format, as they have been changed from the object-oriented model, defined in the Unified Modeling Language to Extensible Markup Language. The incorporation of the meeting's revisions into standards has led to presentation of the HITIS standards to the HITIS Certification and Compliance sub-committee as the Version 1.0.
In attempt to fulfill the task of exchanging message in the open Wide-Area-Network environment, the HITIS defined its infrastructure, with its data types mapped in compliance with the current W3C data types for the XML schema where corresponding data types exist. The decisions taken by the Infrastructure Committee, was incorporated into the sample XML message instances, schema files and DTDs by the technology consultant of AH&MA.
In April 2000, the HITIS Advisory Committee held a meeting, which covered such issues as discussion on conversion of the HITIS Project's standards to XML, cooperation with the Open Travel Alliance and the transition of the standards to a new technology consultant. As of June 2000, the HITIS Initiative has succeeded in completing the extension of Phase I Standards to the Extensible Markup Language.
This Hospitality Industry Technology Integration Standards Initiative of the Open Travel Alliance and the American Hotel and Motel Association reached an agreement on June, 20 to develop and streamline standards relevant to their industries. While the agreement turns responsibility for the Central Reservation System over to the Open Travel Alliance, HITIS binds itself to maintaining the responsibility for the standards, not involved in CRS environment.
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