International Hotel & Restaurant Association Endorses hotelschools.com As A Unique Initiative Which Promotes Education And Career Development In The Global Hospitality Industry

Paris | IH&RA, the International Hotel & Restaurant Association announced today that it has formed a partnership with hotelschools.com and Hsyndicate.com in an effort to further promote education and career- development within the global hospitality & tourism industry.

As part of this agreement, IH&RA will be featuring exhaustive information about hospitality education as integrated portion of its web site www.ih-ra.com. Featured contents will include a unique database of schools and related programs, both by continent or country and by educational levels. Also included will be a calendar of post-graduate continued and online education in various areas of expertise.

In addition, Hsyndicate.com will make available its various hotelschools.com membership benefits to IH&RA member schools and universities at special discounted rates.

In making the announcement, IH&RA CEO Alain-Phillipe Feutré said, “Working side by side with Hsyndicate.com over the past 5 years on various projects, Hsyndicate has provided unyielding support and recognition of IH&RA and its leadership in the global hospitality industry. This new level of Partnership, is well deserved recognition of the support and commitment that Hsyndicate.com has shown IH&RA over the years. By offering benefits to IH&RA members, Hsyndicate.com proves its commitment to the industry and its role as a key industry player”

Henri Roelings CEO of Hsyndicate.com said, “We are honored to be extending our existing alliance with IH&RA. We believe IH&RA to be the leading industry organization to represent the best interests of all stakeholders in the global hospitality industry.” Henri further commented, “One of Hsyndicate’s main goals is to obtain endorsement and acceptance for its hospitality knowledgebase concept. By partnering with IH&RA, and its Member-Schools we believe we can accomplish this goal.”

Hsyndicate’s interests are global in not only producing hotelschools.com, but also through its activities like knowledgebase syndication to hotel groups and chains as well as publishing trendsetting industry portals like hospitalitynet.org and wiredhotelier.com. Hsyndicate's current association partners include AH&LA, IH&RA, HFTP and HSMAI.

Alain-Philippe Feutré concluded the announcement by saying, “This is an exciting enhancement to the long-standing relationship between IH&RA and Hsyndicate. It is a new level of service to be offered to IH&RA members in the very critical area of attracting and retaining talent to the lodging industry.”

About hotelschools.com - Filling an obvious information-gap on the Internet, hotelschools.com aims to become an exhaustive information resource which promotes education and career- development within the global hospitality & tourism industry. Supported by leading industry associations and powered by Hsyndicate, hotelschools.com serves the needs of various stakeholders within the educational landscape of hospitality education: (1) Prospective students (access to unbiased information), (2) Current students (access to industry-knowledge), (3) Employees (access to continued education), (4) Employers (access to talent), (5) Associations (member-access to continued education), and of course (6) Schools and Universities (which serve all above stakeholders). For further information visit .

About IH&RA -IH&RA, the International Hotel & Restaurant Association (www.ih-ra.com), is the only global business organization representing the hospitality industry worldwide. Its members are national hotel and restaurant associations throughout the world, and international and national hotel and restaurant chains representing some 50 brands. Officially recognized by the United Nations, IH&RA monitors and lobbies all international agencies on behalf of this industry, estimated to comprise 300,000 hotels and 8 million restaurants, employ 60 million people and contribute 950 billion USD annually to the global economy. For further information visit .

About Hsyndicate.com - With the active support of leading industry stakeholders, Hsyndicate centralizes, categorizes and redistributes filtered B2B intelligence from and to various stakeholders within the global hospitality industry. The result of these efforts is a unique and highly valuable online knowledge base which feeds market intelligence to various industry players such as hotel groups, trade associations, universities and schools, financial institutions and analysts, industry portals, and consultants. Today's Hsyndicate network reaches a community of 46,000 highly targeted industry professionals in specific segments of the global hotel industry, reaching from hotel chains, hotel associations, universities and public industry portals. Among others, Hsyndicate's current partners include AH&LA, IH&RA, HFTP and HSMAI. For further information visit .