Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®) has finalized an occasion administration settlement with longtime accomplice Hospitality Improve to assist coordinate the annual Government Vendor Summit and CIO Summit, based by Hospitality Improve in 2002. This settlement kicked-off with the 2023 Government Vendor Summit, which was held final week at The Loews Resort in New Orleans, La. from March 29–31. HFTP has been a sponsor of the Summits from their starting and lately the affiliation has contributed its occasion planning experience to each occasions. This current settlement extends this collaboration via 2026.
“The Government Vendor Summit and the CIO Summit have constructed reputations as important C-Stage trade networking occasions the place Hospitality Improve has performed an exceptional job supplying stellar training 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 talent units, our purpose is to ship a memorable expertise.”
The 2023 Government Vendor Summit was an invitation-only, two-day convention that provided a uncommon mixture of networking, instructional programming and immersive social occasions for C-level executives from the world’s most interesting hospitality know-how suppliers. The Summit presents a relaxed ambiance, with no prospects and no promoting. Session matters lined digital disruption, mitigating danger, acquisitions, authorized Q&A, know-how dangers and rumors, and extra. Outdoors of the training programming, attendees had 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 annually. The CIO Summit is a two-day convention that provides a novel mixture of networking, program and immersive social occasions for C-level know-how executives. Participation is proscribed to the “who’s who” of know-how leaders at main inns, casinos, cruise traces, administration and timeshare firms, permitting the trade’s finest, small peer networking expertise.
“We’re grateful for the success we’ve seen during the last three many years particularly with our occasions, and we anticipate even higher issues to come back,” mentioned Wealthy Siegel, founder and writer of Hospitality Improve. “HFTP is a good accomplice and we admire the experience and sources their crew brings to our extremely centered occasions.”
HFTP and Hospitality Improve are long-time allied companions working collectively to develop hospitality know-how data and sources. Hospitality Improve is the unique know-how journal for HFTP and sponsor of HFTP occasions equivalent to HITEC and the HFTP Annual Conference. HFTP has been a sponsor of Hospitality Improve occasions such because the CIO Summit and the Government Vendor Summit since their launch.
For extra details about the Government Vendor Summit and CIO Summit, go to the occasions’ web sites.
About Hospitality Improve
Hospitality Improve has lined know-how tendencies and product data within the hospitality trade for greater than 30 years. Common options embody in-depth analyses by trade thought leaders, interviews with high lodge and gaming executives, articles about merchandise and tendencies, and profiles of the trade’s premier answer suppliers. Reaching an viewers of greater than 30,000 readers in 48 international locations, the journal additionally sponsors two annual occasions, the Government Vendor Summit and the CIO Summit. Hospitality Improve is owned by Siegel Communications, Inc., together with its sister firm Resort On-line, the premier each day information web site for the hospitality trade. For extra data, 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 know-how segments of the hospitality trade with a world community of members and stakeholders. HFTP uniquely understands the trade’s urgent points, and assists its stakeholders to find options to their challenges extra effectively than any group. HFTP affords skilled networks, instructional 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 know-how tradeshow and convention model: HITEC. As well as, it oversees the hospitality-specific Pineapplesearch.com® and the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Business (USALI). For extra details about HFTP, go to www.hftp.org. For the most recent information, go to the HFTP Information web page at information.hftp.org and the HFTP Join weblog at weblog.hftp.org.
Millicent Athanos
Employees Vice President, Administration & USALI
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