The theme of this year's eagerly awaited HOSPACE 2012 Annual Conference and Exhibition for hospitality finance, revenue management, IT and commercial professionals has been announced – 'Taking the Investment Forward – Making the Most of the Investment in Your People and Business to Create Value'. This prestigious HOSPA event will be held on 22 November 2012 at the Sofitel London Heathrow, at Terminal 5.
HOSPA – the Hospitality Professionals Association for Finance, Revenue Management and IT – is delighted to announce the speakers and subjects for the free-of-charge HOSPA Master Classes at Hotelympia 2012, to be held from 26 February to 1 March at ExCel London in the capital's Docklands.
INTEHL hosted its last round table of 2011, on the 9th December at Ecole hôtelière Lausanne. The theme of the round table was that of "The future of guest facing technology" The session was attended by EHL students and also local hoteliers. The session was moderated by Professor Ian Millar, with the panellists comprising of Jeremy Ward Senior Vice President Kempinski Hotels, Wouter Staal Senior Global Marketing Manager Hotel TV –Philips, Derek Wood Consultant –Derek Wood and associates, Almir Kalender Group IT manager QDHP hotels and Max Rosari CEO Rosari IT services.
The room, named Room 3120 at Novotel Paris Vaugirard Montparnasse, showcases the latest in cutting-edge technology and innovative design, with Novotel and Microsoft working closely together to create the revolutionary room that allows guests to sample the ultimate in hi-tech hotel rooms. The visionary room will take guests on a technological journey with features including a Kinect interface, Sensorit mirror based on Kinect technology, a fitness interface and a Surface multimedia table.
A comprehensive programme of 18 ‘Interactive Educational Workshops’ – on topical subjects ranging from ‘Emerging technologies to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)’; ‘Exploring your online competitive advantages’; and ‘Transforming businesses with e-invoicing and e-procurement’, to ‘Payment Card Identity (PCI): cutting through the confusion’ and ‘Hosted Solutions: the way forward?’ – will make putting ‘theory into practice’ the order of the afternoon for hospitality finance, revenue management and IT professionals at HOSPACE 2011.
With the hospitality industry being one of the largest targets of data breaches, credit card security discussions are heating up all over the world, including at the European Hospitality Technology Educational Conference (EHTEC). The conference, EHTEC@HOSPACE, produced by Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®), is November 25, 2011 at Sofitel London Heathrow in London.
Leading hospitality industry practitioners and analysts are to lead an industry ‘state- of-the-nation’ overview session, reviewing the current UK hospitality industry and examining the challenges and opportunities presented by the 2012 Olympics – at HOSPACE 2011, the new name for the 6th Annual BAHA Hospitality Finance and IT Exhibition which will be held on Thursday, 24 November at the Sofitel Hotel, London Heathrow at Terminal 5. The title of this year’s prestigious event will be ‘New Approaches to a Bright Future’.
Following the success of last year's launch of the 'Career Investment Development Scholarships', HOSPA – the UK's leading educational organisation for hospitality professionals involved in financial management, revenue management and IT – is not only inviting senior hospitality industry practitioners to nominate outstanding young employees working in Finance, Revenue Management or IT for a 2011 'HOSPA Career Development Investment Scholarship', but also hospitality university and college course leaders to nominate aspiring hospitality students – who have excelled in their current studies – for a 2011 'Future Career Investment Development Scholarship'.
'New Approaches to a Bright Future?' is the title of the one-day HOSPACE 2011 – to be held on Thursday, 24 November 2011 at the Sofitel Hotel, London Heathrow at Terminal 5.
protel hotelsoftware GmbH heads the field of the leading hotel management system providers regarding customer satisfaction and functionality. This was revealed by the latest survey among 10,689 German hotel businesses conducted by the independent market research institute "The Business Target Group" in May/June 2011. The survey also confirmed protel holding the second largest market share next to the world market leader in hotel software.
'New Approaches to a Bright Future?' is to be the title of one of the most prestigious and eagerly awaited events in the UK hospitality industry calendar – 'HOSPACE 2011', the new name from 19 September 2011 for the 6th Annual BAHA Hospitality Finance, Revenue Management and IT Professionals Conference and IT Exhibition. The event is to be held on Thursday, 24 November 2011 at the Sofitel Hotel, London Heathrow at Terminal 5.
'HOSPA' is to be the new name for an exciting new era of growth for BAHA (British Association of Hospitality Accountants) – the rapidly approaching 1,000-member strong non-profit UK-based educational organisation, with the objective of bringing together those hospitality industry professionals involved in financial management, revenue management and IT.
Interactive dreaming, virtual love-making, sleep studying and health monitoring are set to transform how we will be sleeping in the future according to a new sleep report published today. The six-month, ‘Travelodge Future of Sleep’ study, carried out by award-winning futurologist Ian Pearson, has investigated the impact of new technology on sleep and how the hotel room of the future will respond to helping us sleep better in 2030.
With his students, Mr Ian Millar, Professor of information technology and founder of the EHL Cyberhotel, will share their knowledge of the hospitality industry with Philips, leader in Hotel TV, who will bring all its expertise to the installation of its latest products in the School’s Cyberhotel, a precursor of innovations in the Hospitality Information Technology.
‘Growing Profitability in an Uncertain Market – The Challenges to Come’ is the title of the 5th Annual BAHA Hospitality Finance Conference and IT Exhibition - to be held on Thursday, 25 November 2010 at the Sofitel Hotel, London Heathrow at Terminal 5
‘Growing Profitability in an Uncertain Market – The Challenges to Come’ is the title of the 5th Annual BAHA Hospitality Finance Conference and IT Exhibition –to be held on Thursday, 25 November 2010 at the Sofitel Hotel, London Heathrow at Terminal 5
BAHA – the UK’s leading educational organisation for professionals involved in financial management, revenue management and IT within the hospitality industry – is inviting senior hospitality industry practitioners to nominate outstanding young employees – working in Finance, Revenue Management or IT – for a ‘BAHA Career Investment Scholarship’, designed to provide career development for upcoming young people currently working in the hospitality industry.
Hotel technology and data security experts will share their expertise on the vexing problem of bank card data theft from hotels at a meeting of leading hotel technology experts in Berlin later this month. Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) just added a compelling new session on this topic to an already powerful agenda for its upcoming European members' meeting.
NH Hotels, in line with its spirit of innovation, has become the first Spanish hotel chain to develop a new information and booking application for the iPhone. The new app is now being made available to download free of charge through the Apple Store. The simple and intuitive application which has been created by the multinational hotel firm has been developed to enable iPhone users to be able to search for hotels across the 25 countries where NH Hotels are located as well as providing information and the ability to book rooms via the app.
One of the most prestigious and eagerly awaited events in the UK hospitality industry calendar – the 5th Annual BAHA Hospitality Finance Conference and IT Exhibition – is to be held on Thursday, 25 November 2010 at the Sofitel Hotel, London Heathrow at Terminal 5.