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 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 by way of 2026.
“The Govt Vendor Summit and the CIO Summit have constructed reputations as important C-Degree business networking occasions the place Hospitality Improve has finished an outstanding job supplying stellar training and out-of-the-box networking actions,” stated HFTP CEO Frank Wolfe, CAE. “It’s such a singular expertise for the attendees, and now by combining our organizations’ reputations and talent units, our purpose 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, instructional 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 prospects and no promoting. Session subjects lined digital disruption, mitigating danger, acquisitions, authorized Q&A, expertise 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 consists of coordination of the CIO Summit held in early September every year. The CIO Summit is a two-day convention that gives a singular 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 inns, casinos, cruise traces, administration and timeshare firms, permitting the business’s greatest, 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 better issues to come back,” stated Wealthy Siegel, founder and writer of Hospitality Improve. “HFTP is a superb associate and we respect the experience and assets their crew brings to our extremely centered occasions.”
HFTP and Hospitality Improve are long-time allied companions working collectively to develop hospitality expertise data and assets. Hospitality Improve is the unique expertise journal for HFTP and sponsor of HFTP occasions similar 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 lined expertise developments and product data within the hospitality business for greater than 30 years. Common options embrace in-depth analyses by business thought leaders, interviews with prime resort and gaming executives, articles about merchandise and developments, and profiles of the business’s premier resolution suppliers. Reaching an viewers of greater than 30,000 readers in 48 international locations, 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 Resort On-line, the premier day by day information website for the hospitality business. 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 workplaces within the EU and Center East. HFTP is acknowledged because the spokes group for the finance and expertise segments of the hospitality business with a global community of members and stakeholders. HFTP uniquely understands the business’s urgent points, and assists its stakeholders find options to their challenges extra effectively than any group. HFTP affords professional networks, instructional assets, profession growth 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 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
Workers Vice President, Administration & USALI
+1 512 220 6449
HFTP
