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The Billion Dollar Leak - The Impact of The Merchant Model on US Hotel Profits - By Bobby Bowers, SVP, and Jan D. Freitag, Director, Smith Travel Research
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Jan D. Freitag is a Director at Smith Travel Research (STR), the leading authority on current trends in occupancy, room rate and supply/demand data for the U.S. and the North American lodging industries. Mr. Freitag is frequently quoted in trade publications and the general news media. At STR he is overseeing the maintenance and continual update of the existing supply "Census" database and the "Pipeline" database, tracking all hotels in planning and under construction. Prior to joining STR, Mr. Freitag was Director of Content Integrity at RealTime Hotel Reports, an infomediary for the lodging industry. Mr. Freitag holds a Bachelor Degree from the School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, and will receive his Executive MBA from Vanderbilt University in May 2005. Mr. Freitag resides in Nashville, TN.
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Smith Travel Research (STR) is the recognized leader in providing accurate, actionable information and analysis to the lodging industry. Since 1985, the company has served the industry operating on the key principals of integrity, confidentiality and customer service. STR provides timely information and analysis to all major North American hotel chains and a growing number of chains in Europe and Asia. Individual hotels, management companies, appraisers, consultants, lenders and other lodging industry analysts also rely on STR data for the accuracy they require. For more information visit .
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About the ONHTEC Exhibition - ONHTEC®, a co-production by Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals® and Hsyndicate, aims to become the most comprehensive and trendsetting online conference & showcase of hospitality IT & distribution technology available on the web. Starting from October 2002, ONHTEC ® will provide quarterly scheduled online conferences geared around pertinent trends in hospitality technology. ONHTEC ® aims to provide knowledge & know-how to industry professionals at all levels of expertise. For more information about the conference, please go to the ONHTEC web site at . For more information about the exposition, please contact Lance Peterson at [email protected] or (512) 249-5333 x20.
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Kevin Heilbronner is the US Editor for wiredhotelier.com and hospitalitynet.org, providing streaming multimedia-content for these websites. Based outside of Washington DC, Heilbronner has worked with Hsyndicate to conduct interviews at several hospitality trade shows in the US and Europe over the last couple of years. His column and content are featured in the Hospitality Net weekly newsletter. A familiar voice in Washington, DC, Heilbronner is the stadium announcer for the NBA's Washington Wizards, WNBA's Washington Mystics and WUSA's Washington Freedom. He resides in Centreville, VA and can be reached via email: [email protected].