We offer you unrivalled networking opportunities, a world class educational programme and an absolutely current and crucial conference programme. As a sponsor, you will be capitalising on an incredibly effective means of reaching the companies and individuals who shape the hotel industry and who drive your company’s profitability.

We at Questex Media Group, work hard to ensure that our Sponsor-Partners are showcased to the broadest extent possible. We look forward to working with you to enhance the traditional sponsorship benefits and to discussing with you the vast opportunities this event brings as a marketing, branding, lead generation and knowledge building platform for your company:

• Position your company in front of as many key industry professionals as possible
• Promote your company as industry leaders.
• Associate your company with a crucial industry event in the Asia Pacific region
• Provide your people with lead generating and networking opportunities with other key players and companies in the industry
• Provide knowledge generation through our high-caliber speakers and compelling program content

You will be thrilled with the unique opportunity that the IHIF Asia Pacific can bring to your company!

Founder Patrons:

The CB Richard Ellis Hotels Group is dedicated to being the hospitality industry’s premier provider of sales advisory, finance, market research and valuation services to meet the capital needs of investors and individual owners of hotel and leisure properties.

CBRE Hotels comprises over 100 dedicated professionals, all of whom have significant hotel and leisure real estate and/or operational experience, located in offices worldwide. In North America alone, over 60 professionals are located in all major markets throughout the United States, Latin America, and Canada. Our EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) team is based in London and consists of approximately 50 professionals strategically located throughout 7 countries. Our Asia Pacific team has over 30 professionals and offers comprehensive valuation and investment sales services throughout the region. These teams work closely together to provide a truly global service and in order to apply the best resources to specific tasks. This approach is coupled with strong local market knowledge to provide the optimum advice for our clients.

CBRE Hotels understands the unique challenges and opportunities that come with investing in and divesting in these specialised properties. Our professionals choose to specialise in this sector and devote their careers to following the properties, investors and owners that trade in this space. We know the hospitality market inside and out and we strive to build client relationships that endure. Using shared regional platforms and databases we are able to analyse, model, benchmark and forecast using advanced techniques and common methodologies and apply this for the benefit of clients.

The Brand Company creates brand-driven guest-experiences for hotels, ensuring that what is promised is realised through the reality of what is delivered. Our commitment to clients is to help them deliver on their promises in order to enhance customer loyalty and increase profits.

Our proprietary process called Brand Centered Management™ helps clients keep their promises by putting their brands at the centre of everything they do and, in particular, the way they do it: our belief is that the style of delivery is ultimately more differentiating for a hotel, because so much of what a hotel does and the standards it sets can be emulated by others.

We help translate this brand-style into organisational culture, recruitment, coaching and performance management systems, product and service delivery, the architectural design and internal environment of the hotel and the processes employed to build effective and long-lasting relationships between hotels and their guests.

We’ve made hospitality our focus because there’s no other industry where the relationship between customer and brand is as deep, varied and long-lasting and, thus, where the integration of the style of all customer experiences is as vital. There’s no point in having some things ‘on brand’ and others not, as you’ll only ever be judged by your weakest link (i.e. those experiences that undermine the brand).

We’ve helped build hotel brands across Asia with a particular focus on Greater China. Clients have included Swire Hotels (The Opposite House, The Upper House and East), Langham Hotels, The Peninsula Hong Kong, Shangri-La Hotels and Worldhotels.

Patron Sponsor: 

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. IHG owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, nearly 4,400 hotels and over 640,000 guest rooms in 100 countries and territories. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised 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 programme, Priority Club® Rewards with 47 million members worldwide. IHG has 1,500 hotels in its development pipeline, which will create 140,000 jobs worldwide over the next few years. IHG offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ihg.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com. For the latest news from IHG, visit our online Press Office at www.ihg.com/media

 Event Sponsors:

Aedas creates the best architectural design solutions from our 41 offices. We provide international expertise with innate knowledge and understanding of local cultures. We have a holistic approach to sustainability which shows our care not only for the built environment but also for the people we work with and the societies we live and work within. Aedas global network provides consultancy services in architecture, interior design, masterplanning, landscape, urban design and building consultancy in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. Our commitment to improve the environment are reflected in our designs for all building types including civic, education, health, transport, commercial, residential and industrial buildings.

Langham has a legendary hotel heritage dating back to 1865 when The Langham in London originally opened as Europe’s first Grand Hotel. Today, all Langham Hotels worldwide inherit the same philosophy reflecting elegance in design, innovation in hospitality, genuine service and captivation of the senses. The Langham is where guests enjoy service with poise and are enchanted by innovation and traditions while Langham Place is about living the 21st century through design, technology and attitude, epitomising stimulating and artistic hospitality. Eaton, a premium affiliate, surprises and delights with a sustainable, value-for-money proposition and spirited, can-do service. Currently 19 hotels, including affiliates, are open or in the pipeline across four continents.

Eaton Hotels International is a premium affiliate brand of Langham Hotels International. The upscale Eaton Luxe, the midscale Eaton Smart and Eaton House serviced apartments balance simplicity and style with high levels of comfort and service in a clearly defined value for money proposition while incorporating the latest sustainability practices. Each hotel is also given a sense of place with accents from the local surrounds so each property will present the spirit of its location in interesting and surprising ways while offering spirited can-do service. Eaton Hotels International is part of Great Eagle Holdings (Stock Code: 0041) and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Document Portfolio Sponsor: 

Singapore-based Abacus International is Asia-Pacific's leading travel facilitator with more than 20,000 agency locations in 24 markets. With over 21 years of experience in fusing international best practices and local expertise with global and local partnerships, Abacus provides travel information and reservations specifically tailored to the Asia-Pacific region. Abacus Hotel is networked with over 88,000 hotel properties across more than 278 chains worldwide. Be it for leisure travellers or corporate customers, statistics show it surpasses the competition by generating more than 50 million room nights every year - more than what any other GDS can provide. More information on Abacus can be found at www.abacus.com.sg

Gala Lunch Sponsor:

Founded in 1971 by Trisha Wilson, interior architectural design firm WILSON ASSOCIATES includes over 350 professionals in its offices in Dallas, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Johannesburg, Shanghai and Cochin, India. The Wilson name is synonymous with luxury and beauty among the world’s most celebrated properties, including hotels, resorts, restaurants, clubs, casinos, and high end residences. Blending experience, innovation and solid business principles, Wilson Associates creates properties that define luxury and elegance, delivering an unforgettable guest experience. Wilson Associates is consistently ranked as one of the top firms in the hospitality design industry worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.wilsonassoc.com/

Exhibitor:

Established in 2007, AmCham Macau has become an effective platform for Americans residing in Macau and US companies that are already operating or are considering setting up a business in Macau.  The Chamber champions in business investment in Macau by promoting business opportunities and creating synergies between members. AmCham Macau aims to promote private enterprise, free trade, ethical and responsible businesses and networking opportunities within Macau and the region for its members.

For membership enquiries, please contact AmCham office at 853.2857.5059 or email info@amcham.org.mo. Visit www.amcham.org.mo for more information.

Asiawide Hospitality Solutions (AHS) is focused on providing profitable, effective solutions for owners, developers and financial institutions supporting Hotel investments in Asia Pacific and the UAE. AHS provides technical solutions and offers ongoing asset management for hotel portfolios of all sizes. Managing a new development process from the owner’s perspective, no matter how complex an advisory team may exist, is a company specialty.

AHS provides strategic assistance to confirm best practice in development, and operational review, branding, design evolution with integration into existing inventory and assistance with the acquisition of hotel properties. Operator selection, performance monitoring, contract negotiation, successful placement, and even replacement, form important parts of AHS services available to owners. Help in partnership relations, turnaround situations, underperforming properties, and third party management is included. 

 

The Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management (CNI) is a partnership between Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) Business School. Cornell's long standing, rich hospitality tradition and the Nanyang Business School’s Asian business perspective, enable CNI to develop leaders, managers and entrepreneurs for the Asian hospitality and tourism industry. The Master of Management in Hospitality (MMH) program is a one year MBA with an exclusive focus on the broadly-defined hospitality industry. For more information about the MMH, visit www.mmh.cornell.edu. Over 1050 participants from 40 countries have participated in CNI’s Executive Education programs in Singapore over the last three years.

   

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is a membership association acting as a catalyst for the responsible development of the Asia Pacific travel and tourism industry. PATA enhances the sustainable growth, value and quality of travel and tourism to, from and within the region. PATA provides leadership and counsel on an individual and collective basis to government, state and city tourism bodies, international airlines, airports and cruise lines as well as travel industry companies. PATA’s Strategic Intelligence Centre (SIC) offers unrivalled data and insights including Asia Pacific inbound and outbound statistics, analyses and forecasts as well as in-depth reports on strategic tourism markets.

The Institute of Hospitality is the professional association for managers, and aspiring managers, across the hospitality industry. Established as a not-for-profit organisation, its two prime objects are the promotion of best practice and the advancement of education in hospitality management. Its members are drawn from across all sectors of the hospitality industry, and at every level of hospitality management from students and young supervisors to the 'captains of industry', in some 100 countries around the world. The Institute's overriding role is that of uniting professionals, promoting excellence and facilitating learning, something it has been doing for more than 70 years.

TourismROI is a unique centralized source of information for Travel & Tourism management, development and investment opportunities in more than 12,000 destinations worldwide. The website www.TourismROI.com brings together destinations, business operators, developers and investors from around the world in one easily accessible and useable location. The site provides them with the information, research and resources necessary to make informed business and investment decisions. Launched in March 2008, TourismROI is a joint venture between industry veteran Richard Miller, former Executive Vice President of the World Travel & Tourism Council (1991-2007), and MMG Worldwide, a US $100 million full-service global advertising and marketing firm with more than 25 years experience in the travel, hospitality and entertainment industries. For further information contact TourismROI at www.TourismROI.com, by e-mail at info@TourismROI.com or call +1-646-502-8763.

The Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) is the world’s first school of hospitality management founded in 1893. It is a non-profit foundation, recognized world-wide as a model of excellence in hospitality management education. Its three internationally accredited programmes are designed to serve the needs of today's and tomorrow's international hospitality industry. They develop managerial competencies and emphasize the strategic dimension of hospitality business management. EHL also offers a wide range of services tailored to the hospitality industry including applied research, executive education, consulting and business development. These activities create a virtuous circle: their results are continuously fed into the programmes, enabling the School to constantly improve its curriculum.