Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®) has finalized an occasion administration settlement with longtime associate Hospitality Improve to assist coordinate the annual Govt Vendor Summit and CIO Summit, based by Hospitality Improve in 2002. This settlement kicked-off with the 2023 Govt Vendor Summit, which was held final week at The Loews Lodge in New Orleans, La. from March 29–31. HFTP has been a sponsor of the Summits from their starting and not too long ago the affiliation has contributed its occasion planning experience to each occasions. This latest settlement extends this collaboration by means of 2026.
“The Govt Vendor Summit and the CIO Summit have constructed reputations as important C-Degree trade networking occasions the place Hospitality Improve has achieved an exceptional job supplying stellar schooling and out-of-the-box networking actions,” mentioned HFTP CEO Frank Wolfe, CAE. “It’s such a novel expertise for the attendees, and now by combining our organizations’ reputations and ability units, our aim is to ship a memorable expertise.”
The 2023 Govt Vendor Summit was an invitation-only, two-day convention that supplied a uncommon mixture of networking, academic programming and immersive social occasions for C-level executives from the world’s best hospitality expertise suppliers. The Summit presents a relaxed ambiance, with no clients and no promoting. Session matters coated digital disruption, mitigating danger, acquisitions, authorized Q&A, expertise dangers and rumors, and extra. Exterior of the schooling programming, attendees have been handled to enjoyable social occasions, together with a swamp tour and Mississippi River cruise.
The administration settlement additionally contains coordination of the CIO Summit held in early September every year. The CIO Summit is a two-day convention that provides a novel mixture of networking, program and immersive social occasions for C-level expertise executives. Participation is restricted to the “who’s who” of expertise leaders at main resorts, casinos, cruise strains, administration and timeshare corporations, permitting the trade’s greatest, small peer networking expertise.
“We’re grateful for the success we’ve seen over the past three many years particularly with our occasions, and we anticipate even higher issues to return,” mentioned Wealthy Siegel, founder and writer of Hospitality Improve. “HFTP is a good associate and we respect the experience and sources their group brings to our extremely centered occasions.”
HFTP and Hospitality Improve are long-time allied companions working collectively to develop hospitality expertise info and sources. Hospitality Improve is the unique expertise journal for HFTP and sponsor of HFTP occasions akin to HITEC and the HFTP Annual Conference. HFTP has been a sponsor of Hospitality Improve occasions such because the CIO Summit and the Govt Vendor Summit since their launch.
For extra details about the Govt Vendor Summit and CIO Summit, go to the occasions’ web sites.
About Hospitality Improve
Hospitality Improve has coated expertise developments and product info within the hospitality trade for greater than 30 years. Common options embody in-depth analyses by trade thought leaders, interviews with prime lodge and gaming executives, articles about merchandise and developments, and profiles of the trade’s premier resolution suppliers. Reaching an viewers of greater than 30,000 readers in 48 nations, the journal additionally sponsors two annual occasions, the Govt Vendor Summit and the CIO Summit. Hospitality Improve is owned by Siegel Communications, Inc., together with its sister firm Lodge On-line, the premier day by day information web site for the hospitality trade. For extra info, go to www.hospitalityupgrade.com.
About HFTP
Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is a hospitality nonprofit affiliation headquartered in Austin, Texas USA with places of work within the EU and Center East. HFTP is acknowledged because the spokes group for the finance and expertise segments of the hospitality trade with a global community of members and stakeholders. HFTP uniquely understands the trade’s urgent points, and assists its stakeholders find options to their challenges extra effectively than any group. HFTP presents professional networks, academic sources, profession improvement applications, analysis, management alternatives and conferences and occasions. HFTP produces worldwide occasions all year long, together with the world’s largest hospitality expertise tradeshow and convention model: HITEC. As well as, it oversees the hospitality-specific Pineapplesearch.com® and the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Trade (USALI). For extra details about HFTP, go to www.hftp.org. For the newest information, go to the HFTP Information web page at information.hftp.org and the HFTP Join weblog at weblog.hftp.org.
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