This year’s programme will focus on:

• How hotels can access financing in a challenging credit environment asking how important is relationship banking and strong operational management in making the business case to lenders?
• In-depth analysis on hotel refinancing and restructuring in the current market, evaluating trends in recently completed transactions and the options open to stressed borrowers
• What can private equity investors bring to the hotel market looking at how and where they should invest?
• What steps hoteliers are taking to capitalize on the emerging market recovery
• The market view on prospects for the budget hotel sector in the new economy
• Analysis of emerging markets and successes and failures to emerge from the downturn looking at Turkey, Poland and Ireland

Why should you attend? To debate the strategic direction and future challenges in the hotel finance & investment market with the senior figures from across the industry.

Who will be there? The attendees will be of the highest calibre and from a range of stakeholders including financiers, owners, investors, operators, asset managers and service providers.

Who are the speakers? We have assembled experts in their field from right across the hotel finance and investment community including:

• Stephen Alden, Chief Executive Officer, Maybourne Hotel Group • Paul White, President & CEO, Orient-Express Hotels • Gerard Greene, CEO, YOTEL • Michael Levie, Co-Founder & Operations Director, citizenM • Christian G. Windfuhr, Chief Executive Officer, Grand City Holland BV • Paul Edgecliffe-Johnson, Senior Vice President, Global Corporate Finance, Planning & Tax, InterContinental Hotels Group • Patrick Fitzgibbon, Senior Vice President – Development, Europe & Africa, Hilton Worldwide • Russell Kett, Managing Director, HVS • And many more