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The Summit
What can you expect?
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Attracting over 250 high quality senior industry leaders, the Boutique and Lifestyle Hotel Summit is the leading International hotel conference and exhibition for the boutique and lifestyle sector.
A creative business forum, with carefully curated topics and speakers to inspire, question and challenge hoteliers about the business, creative promise and future of the sector in 2017 and beyond. The conference helps hotel leaders understand changing trends across sectors, geographies, and the functional silos in and around the hotel industry.
We work hard to deliver industry-leading speakers and engaging cutting edge content and debate, together with plenty of networking and new business opportunities as the sector continues to gain pace. Over 20+ exhibitors and sponsors are looking to engage with this significant audience.
There’s a thriving exhibition floor to provide a vibrant platform for interaction between owners, operators, investors and service providers too!
There’s lots of guaranteed value during the International Boutique and Lifestyle Hotel Summit. Your delegate ticket includes numerous networking opportunities, all food and beverage provided, delegate pack, conference and breakout sessions, access to the exhibitor showcase and a packed arena full of customers, prospects and vendors, all easy to find in one location. For entertaining, London's finest restaurants are close by and offer much more than concession fare
Relax and network over a drink or two, and join the speed business card swap - a fast and frantic way to meet lots of your fellow delegates!
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Network and meet our exhibitors over a coffee and a pastry.
Welcome from hosts Piers Brown and Georgina Burnett
Piers Brown
Boutique Hotel News
Georgina Burnett
Event Facilitator
The latest predictions on peer-to-peer travel and how the sharing economy is shaping the hospitality sector.
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The GM speaks: A group of leading boutique and lifestyle hotel GMs discuss the ever-evolving challenges of their role, and their differing roles and objectives based on the property managed.
Panellists:
• Angela Ellis, GM, The Zetter and Zetter Townhouse
• Anthony Cox, general manager, Danesfield House
• Ben Maybury, hotel manager, Lime Wood (tbc)
A look at an exciting new hotel from conception through to launch.
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Time for a catch up and a caffeine hit
A selection of new property owners give their take on the challenges and opportunities facing them and their hotels.
Panellists:
• Oliver Heywood, co-owner, Flat Cap Hotels
• Justin Salisbury, co-founder, Artist Residence Hotels
• Nick Davies, co-owner, The Cottage in the Wood
Justin Salisbury
Artist Residence Hotels
Nick Davies
The Cottage in the Wood
Oliver Heywood
Flat Cap Hotels
An interactive session debating trends and developments in boutique and lifestyle hotel F&B. Guests are looking for increasingly informal and flexible F&B options - how can hotels best meet their expectations?
Panellists:
• Simon Taylor, Head of business development, Condé Nast International Restaurants
Simon Taylor
Condé Nast International Restaurants
A hotel on its own with no connection to its surroundings is likely to fail. The development buzzword of the moment is place-making – how do developers masterplan and create functioning and vibrant neighbourhoods, and what part do hotels play within that?
Panellists:
• Imran Hussain, editor-in-chief, The Hotel Culture
• Camille Lorigo, co-founder, strategist, muse at SexyBestFriend
• Mark Davy, Founder FutureCity
• Holly Tuppen, Bouteco
Imran Hussain
The Hotel Culture
Mark Davy
Futurecity
Monitoring and responding to guest feedback is an essential skill for the modern hotelier. A panel including a winner of the BoHos Guest Experiemce Awards discusses how to get it right.
Panellists:
• Francine Heywood, sales and marketing director, GuestRevu
In a bid to appeal to a wider and younger demographic, a new wave of hybrid hotels is broadening its offer to include apartments, dorms, shared rooms, communal cooking and even yurts and caravans. How is this market evolving?
Moderator: Bill Barnett, managing director, C9 Hotelworks
Panellists:
• Navneet Bali, CEO, Meininger Hotels
• Kash Bhattacharya, professional travel blogger, Toposophy, BudgetTraveller
• Anne Dolan, co-founder, Clink Hostels
• Hubert Viriot, CEO, YOTEL
Bill Barnett
C9 Hotelworks
Navneet Bali
Meininger Hotels
Kash Bhattacharya
Budget Traveller
Brand expansion or brand explosion?
Time to refuel and recharge.
Owner/operator, management company, white label/franchise - there is a huge range of choice for property owners when it comes to the day-to-day running of a hotel. Which is right for your property?
Panellists:
• Andrew Shaw, AVP hotel development at InterContinental Hotels Group
Intense snapshots and expert insight into:
• The London market
• The debt market
• The equity market
Andrew Harrington, owner, AHV Associates
Andrew Harrington
AHV Associates
With transactions below 2015 - 2016 levels, what's keeping hotel investors and lenders awake at night
How to drive incremental revenues and maximise the profitability of your space
Panellists:
• Grant Valenta-Powell, managing director, Central Working
Grant Powell
Central Working
Last chance for refreshment!
A selection of great prizes up for grabs. You must be in the room to win!
Hoxton Hotels founder Sharan Pasricha describes content as the new SEO. Compelling content, in the form of striking images, attention grabbing copy and engaging video has never been more important in promoting your property. This session discusses how to get it right and the findings of IHM’s white paper in to digital personalisation in the hospitality sector
Panellists:
• Frank Reeves, Avvio (tbc)
