YHS Keynote session: Emerging Trends in Hospitality & Tourism

Presented by Steve Hood, Senior Vice President of Research, STR.  Steve Hood has been with STR for 15 years. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Research. He is responsible for research-related activities, including special analyses and methodologies. He manages STR's relationships with the educational community. He currently serves as the Director of the SHARE Education Center.

About the Young Hoteliers Summit

The Young Hoteliers Summit (YHS) was founded in 2010 by five students of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), who shared the vision of fostering innovation in the industry through insightful discussions between thought leaders and hospitality students. Today, YHS has become the largest student-run summit in the world, inviting over 30 speakers, 80 delegates and 20 partners to its event every year. During the summit, the delegates have to solve the YHS Challenge set by the summit's most esteemed partner, the Challenge Provider. The team behind YHS consists of over 40 students from EHL Hospitality Business School, speaking over 25 languages and coming from 28 countries. They prepare the event for an entire year.