“Expedia Media Solutions is focused on driving marketing innovations for the hospitality industry, so we’re thrilled to partner with HSMAI to salute professionals who made important contributions in hospitality marketing over the past year,” said Doug Miller, Global Vice President of Media Solutions for Expedia, Inc.
During the invitation-only Top 25 reception, HSMAI will honor leaders in hospitality, travel, and tourism for their measured accomplishments in sales and marketing during the past year. Designees to this industry “hot list” are recognized as outstanding leaders and performers by their colleagues and the industry as a whole. Recipients and Adrian Awards attendees are then invited to the “Gold Gallery” Networking Reception to mingle with travel industry executives, public relations and advertising professionals and preview the outstanding winning work from 2009.
“We are delighted to welcome Expedia Media Solutions as a top level Adrian Awards partner,” said HSMAI executive vice president Fran Brasseux. “They join our other prestigious partners to help us recognize and honor this year’s outstanding winning work.”
The Adrian Awards honors the “best of the best” in travel and hospitality marketing in the categories of advertising, public relations and web marketing. The Top 25 Minds will also be featured in an upcoming HSMAI publication article. For more information on the Adrian Awards Competition and Gala, visit www.adrianawards.com.
About Expedia Media Solutions | Formed in 2007, Expedia Media Solutions is dedicated to building online and offline media partnerships for travel and non-travel brand advertisers and to enable them to leverage the unique media value of Expedia's network of leading travel brands and global points of sale. For more information, visit
www.advertising.expedia.com.
About Expedia, Inc. | Expedia, Inc. is the leading online travel company in the world. Since launching in 1996, the company's Expedia.com brand has grown to become the world's single most popular online travel booking site, generating more leisure travel bookings than any other travel agency - online or offline. Worldwide, the Expedia, Inc. family of brands today includes 20 Expedia.com sites; 78 Hotels.com sites; leading agency hotel company Venere.com™; leading U.S. discount travel site Hotwire®; Egencia™, the world's fifth largest corporate travel management company; the world's largest travel community TripAdvisor® Media Network; destination activities provider ExpediaLocalExpert®; luxury travel specialist Classic Vacations®; and China's second largest booking site eLong™. With more people booking travel online in Expedia, Inc's global marketplace than anywhere else, the company delivers consumers value in leisure and business travel, drives incremental demand and direct bookings to travel suppliers, and provides advertisers vast opportunity to reach the most valuable audience of in-market travel consumers anywhere through Expedia Media Solutions. Expedia also powers bookings for some of the world’s leading airlines and hotels, top consumer brands, high traffic websites, and thousands of active affiliates through Expedia® Affiliate Network. (NASDAQ: EXPE)
About HSMAI | The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) is committed to growing business for hotels and their partners, and is the industry's leading advocate for intelligent, sustainable hotel revenue growth. The association provides hotel professionals & their partners with tools, insights, and expertise to fuel sales, inspire marketing, and optimize revenue through programs such as HSMAI's MEET, Adrian Awards, and Revenue Management Strategy Conference. HSMAI is an individual membership organization comprising more than 7,000 members worldwide, with 40 chapters in the Americas Region. Connect with HSMAI at www.hsmai.org, www.facebook.com/hsmai, www.twitter.com/hsmai and www.youtube.com/hsmai1.
