Sponsors
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Gold Sponsors
CMS
Distinctively European
CMS is an organisation composed of major European law firms dedicated to providing clients with integrated, high quality services across Europe. All CMS firms are major players in their local markets and the organisation has 56 offices in 28 jurisdictions with 595 partners.
Number 1 hotel lawyers in Europe
Our dedicated hotel group has an unrivalled profile in the hotel industry and we have acted on a large number of major groundbreaking transactions. We have been ranked 1st for 5 consecutive years by the Legal 500 directory.
Our international hotel group includes the skills and experience of specialists in real estate, corporate, banking and tax, plus other relevant specialist areas such as employment, environment and health and safety. This enables us to provide hotel owners, operators, funds and financial institutions with a "one-stop" service.
Our experience ranges from cross-border acquisitions and disposals to the development and leasing of hotels. We also take a keen interest in the development of products to provide the most capital and tax efficient structures to suit the needs of clients and are involved in portfolio and project financing.
Our approach is commercial and practical with a high standard of legal skill, based on a detailed understanding of the hotel industry.
For further information please contact:
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Thomas Page Head Of Hotel Group T +44 20 7367 3046 E tom.page@cms-cmck.com |
Hermann Stapenhorst Head of CMS Hotel Group T +49 30 203 60 1651 E hermann.stapenhorst@cms-hs.com |
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The Dorchester Collection
The Dorchester Collection is the successor to the Dorchester Group, originally established by the Brunei Investment Agency in 1996 to manage its collection of luxury hotels in Europe and the USA. The Vision of the Dorchester Collection is to become the ultimate hotel management company, with a passion for excellence and innovation, honouring the individuality and heritage fayof its iconic hotels.
People know the hotels of the Dorchester Collection. They have world-wide reputations for offering the best and most sought-after experiences of good living, charm, elegance and service. All represent the ultimate in their great locations - The Dorchester, London; The Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills; Le Meurice and the Hotel Plaza Athénée, Paris, Hotel Principe di Savoia, Milan, The New York Palace, New York, Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles (closing for renovation September 2009) and 2 new hotels opening in 2010 Coworth Park, Ascot and 45 Park Lane, London.
The hotels are fabulously sited in the great cities of the world. The famous individual character of each is always celebrated, while continually enhanced by the most modern facilities. Suites and rooms are luxuriously comfortable. Acclaimed restaurants, convivial bars and indulgent spas are a focus for fashionable society. The hotels are prized by the most discerning for a style of service that responds superbly to the individual.
Dorchester Collection unites these great masterpieces and ensures a consistently exceptional experience for guests, who always enjoy a sense of prestige while feeling completely at home whichever hotel they choose.
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Four Seasons Hotels And Resorts
Four Seasons is dedicated to
perfecting the travel experience through continuous innovation and the
highest standards of hospitality. From elegant surroundings of the finest
quality, to caring, highly personalised 24-hour service, Four Seasons
embodies a true home away from home for those who know and appreciate the
best. The deeply instilled Four Seasons culture is personified in its
employees – people who share a single focus and are inspired to offer great
service.
Founded in 1960, Four Seasons has followed a targeted course of expansion,
opening hotels in major city centres and desirable resort destinations
around the world. Currently with 70 hotels in 31 countries, and more than 25
properties under development, Four Seasons will continue to lead the
hospitality industry with innovative enhancements, making business travel
easier and leisure travel more rewarding.
More information at www.fourseasons.com
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Hilton Worldwide
Hilton Worldwide offers business and leisure travelers the finest in accommodations, service, amenities and value. Since Conrad Hilton bought his first hotel in 1919 in Cisco, Texas, we have expanded geographically, produced original hotel and travel concepts, and developed innovative technologies to enhance the guest experience.
Today Hilton Worldwide is the leading global hospitality company, spanning the lodging sector from luxurious full-service hotels and resorts to extended-stay suites and mid-priced hotels.
With more than 3,500 hotels in 81 countries, our trusted portfolio of hotel brands includes the Waldorf Astoria, Conrad, Hilton, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn & Suites, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Home2 Suites by Hilton and Hilton Grand Vacations.
Since our founding 90 years ago, Hilton's commitment to creating exceptional guest experiences remains unchanged, and our more than 130,000 team members continue to bring the highest quality of service to the world's visitors.
Vision: To fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality.
Mission: We will be the preeminent global hospitality company - the first choice of guests, team members and owners alike.
Values:
| H | HOSPITALITY - We are passionate about delivering exceptional guest experiences. |
| I | INTEGRITY - We do the right thing, all the time. |
| L | LEADERSHIP - We are leaders in our industry and in our communities. |
| T | TEAMWORK - We are team players in everything we do. |
| O | OWNERSHIP - We are the owners of our actions and decisions. |
| N | NOW - We operate with a sense of urgency and discipline. |
For more information on development opportunities with Hilton Worldwide, please visit hiltondevelopment.com.
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InterContinental Hotels Group PLC
IHG is an international hotel company whose goal is to create Great Hotels Guests Love. We're the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, with over 130 million stays per year. IHG owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, over 4,400 hotels and more than 650,000 guest rooms in 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognized and respected hotel brands including InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites, and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty program, Priority Club Rewards with 48 million members worldwide.
IHG has over 1,300 hotels in its development pipeline, which will create 160,000 jobs worldwide over the next few years. To find out more, visit www.ihgplc.com or to book with us, visit www.ihg.com.
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Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc. is a leading lodging company with more than 3,400 lodging properties in 70 countries and territories. Marriott International operates and franchises hotels under the Marriott, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, The Autograph Collection, Renaissance, Residence Inn, Courtyard, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn, SpringHill Suites and Bulgari brand names; develops and operates vacation ownership resorts under the Marriott Vacation Club, The Ritz-Carlton Destination Club, and Grand Residences by Marriott brands; licenses and manages whole-ownership residential brands, including The Ritz-Carlton Residences, JW Marriott Residences and Marriott Residences; operates Marriott Executive Apartments; provides furnished corporate housing through its Marriott ExecuStay division; and operates conference centers. The company is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and had approximately 137,000 employees at 2009 year-end. It is recognized by FORTUNE® as one of the best companies to work for, and by Newsweek as one of the greenest big companies in America. In fiscal year 2009, Marriott International reported sales from continuing operations of nearly $11 billion. For more information about developing with Marriott International, visit www.MarriottDevelopment.com.
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The Rezidor Hotel Group
The Rezidor Hotel Group is one of the fastest growing hotel companies in the world. The group features a portfolio of more than 400 hotels in operation and under development with close to 86,000 rooms in 62 countries.
Rezidor operates the brands Radisson Blu Hotels & Resorts, Regent Hotels & Resorts, Park Inn by Radisson and Country Inns & Suites in Europe, Middle East and Africa, along with the goldpoints plusSM loyalty programme for frequent hotel guests. Under a worldwide licence agreement with the iconic Italian fashion house Missoni, Rezidor also operates and develops the new lifestyle brand Hotel Missoni. The first Hotel Missoni opened in summer 2009 in Edinburgh, further projects are under development in Kuwait, South Africa, Oman and Brasil.
Since November 2006, Rezidor is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Carlson Companies is the main shareholder.
The Corporate Office of the Rezidor Hotel Group is based in Brussels, Belgium.
For more information on Rezidor, visit www.rezidor.com.
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The Royal Bank Of Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the top three banking groups in Europe and one of the top ten globally. We are the number one corporate bank in the UK, with over one third of UK corporates now choosing to bank with us.
Corporate Banking has a specialist hotel sector team. With considerable experience of working within this sector, they understand the issues and challenges that our customers face and are able to identify the right solution.
Being part of a global banking Group, the team’s knowledge and transactional capability spans both domestic and international markets, where a genuine insight helps give customers that all important competitive advantage.
For more information visit www.rbs.co.uk/corporate
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with 960 properties in 97 countries and 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, W®, Westin®, Le Méridien®, Sheraton®, Four Points® by Sheraton, and the recently launched Aloft®, and ElementSM. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.
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TNS Hospitality & Leisure
TNS Hospitality & Leisure delivers insight and research solutions to the world’s leading hospitality companies.
TNS is a truly global market information group, with offices in 70 countries, delivering guaranteed global co-ordination of projects combined with local sector knowledge.
Our dedicated team of researchers and industry experts use a full range of services and techniques to advise hotels and other hospitality and leisure operators, providing them with cost-effective, value-added research and insights.
Whatever you need to know about your business and its customers our expert research teams can provide the answers. We have four specific 'Areas of Expertise':
Brand and ad-tracking - How prominent is your brand? How memorable are your ads? Communication with the market is a very expensive business and we can tell you how effective your ad campaigns and brand building initiatives are.
Stakeholder management - The relationship that your customers, staff and shareholders have with your company is inter-connected, but how do you balance that relationship to optimise the value for each?
Customer motivation - What drives your customers to you, or indeed away from you? Our approach gets under the skin or your customers and potential customers to help you understand their needs.
Product and service development - Represents a major opportunity to individual businesses but, if not managed carefully, can also represent a significant risk. TNS works closely with its clients to understand market needs, customer priorities and perceived gaps in the market
For further information on TNS please visit www.tns-global.com
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Silver Sponsors
Accor Hospitality
Accor is by far Europe's largest hotel company and is among the leading global operators, with strong representation at all market levels, budget through to luxury. Worldwide Accor has over 4,000 hotels in around 90 countries representing around 500,000 bedrooms. In 2008 Accor opened 209 hotels around the world, accounting for an additional 28,000 bedrooms. During 2009 the company has a pipeline openings target of 32,000 bedrooms, increasing to 34,000 bedrooms for 2010. In the UK and Ireland by the end of 2009 we will have approximately 140 hotels operating under six brands, including Etap, Ibis and All Seasons at the budget/economy level, Mercure and Novotel in the mid-market and Sofitel in the luxury segment. We are seeking to bring new brands to the UK market, including Adagio (serviced apartments) and Pullman (the company's upscale, corporate and meetings focussed brand). With its world-wide presence and breadth of brand coverage, Accor’s international positioning is unique.
In the UK and Ireland Accor continues to target growth at all market levels, from budget through to five star and luxury properties. In order to achieve our growth targets we consider the full range of development routes including management contract , franchising (at budget and mid-market levels), leases and asset/site acquisition.
More information at www.accor.com or contact Andrew Shaw, Development Director, at andrew.shaw@accor.com.
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STR Global
STR Global is the leading provider of market information to the global hospitality industry.
We provide clients-including hotel operators, developers, financiers, analysts and suppliers
to the hotel industry-access to hotel industry data with regular and custom reports. STR Global
provides a single source of global hotel data covering daily and monthly performance data,
forecasts, annual profitability, pipeline and census information. STR Global is part of the STR
family of companies and is proudly associated with STR, RRC Associates, STR Analytics, and
HotelNewsNow.com. For more information, please visit
www.strglobal.com.
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Taylor Wessing
The Taylor Wessing Hotels group comprises lawyers drawn from across our international offices. We advise extensively on hotel projects around the world and our specialist expertise includes: hotel management and franchise agreements; funds and funding; planning and development; M&A; and construction.
We think creatively about business issues and are constantly looking for new and better ways to add value with truly innovative solutions that help to grow our clients' businesses. By keeping close to our clients we can positively identify better ways to help them achieve their ambitions.
We advise a broad spectrum of organisations from around the world which are involved in the hotel industry, including: developers; owners; funders; investors; operators; franchisees; brand owners; asset managers; and contractors.
With our extensive experience, global connections and genuine understanding of the hotel industry, clients rely on us to provide innovative, practical and instinctively commercial advice.
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Media Sponsors
HotelAnalyst
ZeroTwoZero Communications Limited, run by Andrew and Sarah Sangster,
publishes Hotel Analyst. Hotel Analyst (www.hotelanalyst.co.uk)
is the news analysis service for those involved with financing hotel
property or hotel operating companies. It is designed to understand, as well
as report the news.
A subscription to Hotel Analyst comprises two things: a newsletter published
six times a year (Hotel Analyst newsletter and a weekly web-based
online service (HA Perspective Online). Both are supplied within the
one subscription price.
Hotel Analyst is a cost effective purchase because:
It saves time - rather than plough through piles of overlapping print
titles or suffering a clogged up inbox of irrelevant e-news, Hotel Analyst
delivers to you the key information succinctly and accurately.
It provides insight - be up to speed with the deals that matter, the
motivations of the key players and the reasons driving them forward.
It enables you to understand - learn the key thoughts and opinions of
industry leaders. Read reports on the latest industry thinking discussed at
conferences and seminars.
Visit
www.hotelanalyst.co.uk to find out more.
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HotelNewsNow.com
HotelNewsNow.com is a division of STR and is affiliated with STR Analytics, RRC
Associates and STR Global. The staff is exclusively dedicated to a digital platform
that includes a multimedia website and email newsletters that provide headlines,
community and insight for the global hotel industry. With first access to data from
the STR companies, HotelNewsNow.com provides vital information in a timely manner
for today's busy hotel executive.
Visit
www.hotelnewsnow.com to find out more.
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Sleeper Magazine
The hotel industry is undergoing a period of dynamic growth. In recent years investment and development in new hotels have been at record breaking levels.
Across the globe, hotels, whether independently owned or internationally branded, are differentiating themselves through innovative design.
Projects are complex, with investors, developers, owners, operators, architects, interior designers, consultants, contractors and their suppliers all vital to the process of creating new hotels worldwide.
Sleeper is targeted at all those involved in hotel design, development and architecture on an international level. Our portfolio comprises a beautifully presented magazine, an affiliated website (www.sleepermagazine.com) and regular email newsletters.
Sleeper is the only media brand to reach all the individuals and disciplines throughout
the supply chain involved in the delivery of new hotel projects worldwide.
Sleeper's readership encompasses all those involved in the creation of new hotels:
- Owners and operators
- Developers and investors
- Interior designers
- Architects
- Senior executives at all major hotel groups
- Purchasing, technical services, design, development and construction departments within hotel groups
- Leading independent luxury and lifestyle hotels
- Purchasing and procurement companies
- Consultants and contractors
- Providers of professional financial, legal and property services
As such, Sleeper is the perfect partner for brands looking to target the multi-billion pound hotel sector with design-led products and services.
For more information contact Matt Turner, Editor at m.turner@mondiale.co.uk or visit www.sleepermagazine.com
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