Expo Real with 11th"Hospitality Industry Dialogue": top names, top subjects
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| Experts' talk: In 2012, even more top-class and international names will add to the programme of the "Hospitality Industry Dialogue". Financing and assets are the focus of the 11th hotel conference at Expo Real Munich. |
Munich (August 3, 2012). The financing of hotel properties has been the most important topic in the majority of industry talks in the last few months – even more important than in the previous year. Therefore, financing and assets, development and agreements will be the focus of the 11th hotel conference at Expo Real 2012 from October 8 to12 in Munich. The kick-off will be a two-hour nonstop session solely about financing – and the audience is to play a part! About 25 executives with illustrious names will participate in the five panel discussions at the "Hospitality Industry Dialogue" (HID) on Monday, October 8, 2012. Among them are well-known decision makers of the hotel and investment/real estate industry from London and Paris. Many of them will give a talk at Expo Real for the first time.
Every year, the circle of HID experts becomes more international and top-class; analogously, the Expo Real is increasingly becoming a trade show for commercial properties and investments. This development corresponds to the fact that the hospitality segment is becoming more important at the trade show, and has now become an established asset class in the investment industry.
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| Paul Slattery, Otus & Co. |
The start of this year's hotel conference is a mega panel which bears the name "Hotel financing: Different stories, different players?": a two-hour nonstop discussion about hotel financing with various participants and the involvement of the audience. As entrée, Paul Slattery, Director of the London transaction specialist Otus & Co will deliver a key note about the relation of national economy and hotel industry. After that, the two moderators of the nonstop session Christoph Haerle, CEO Continental Europe of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, and Maria Puetz-Willems, Editor in Chief of hospitalityInside.com, will invite one expert after the other to the stage and broaden the range of topics.
The following experts have already confirmed their participation: Desmond Taljaard, Chief Operating Officer Europe of Starwood Capital, as representative of the investors; Michael Hartmann, Senior Vice President Head Market Development Board Hospitality and Entertainment, as representative of Siemens Financial Services (he will present a totally new concept); and the publicly appointed and sworn expert for (hotel) property assessment Prof. Werner Pauen; a representative of Hyatts, among others, will represent the hotel chains.
The entire hotel conference will start with this discussion round on Monday, October 8, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. in the "Special Real Estate Forum" in Hall C2 on the Expo Real grounds. The subsequent panel discussions will last one hour each. All discussions will be interpreted simultaneously into German and English.
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Markus Semer, Kempinski. |
Assets and development without limits
After the subject of financing, the next panel bears the title "Asset management: Predictable yield?" and starts at 12:30 pm. Under the moderation of Markus Beike, Managing Director of Christie+Co, from Berlin, the following participants will discuss this red-hot market subject: Markus Semer, Member of the Executive Board of Kempinski Hotels & Resorts; Dr. Frank Billand, Managing Director of Union Investment Real Estate; Heribert Gangl, Senior Associate of Hamilton Hotel Partners; and Stephan Gerhard, CEO of Treugast Solutions Group.
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| Robert Shepherd, IHG. |
After the lunch break, Martina Fidlschuster, Managing Director of Hotour Hotel Consulting from Frankfurt, will hopefully obtain many answers from her guests: starting at 2:30 pm, she will try to evaluate if there is a "Development without limits"? Does expansion mean market displacement only? The participants of this panels discussion are: Robert Shepherd, Senior Vice President Development & Design Europe of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) from London; Philippe Baretaud, Senior Vice President and Head of Development EMEA from the Accor headquarters in Paris; Prof. Andreas Fay, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the developer Fay Projects; as well as Mark Thompson, Managing Director of the expanding budget chain B&B Hotels.
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| Christian Windfuhr, Grand City Hotels. |
Agreements and new
investment niches
Agreements remain an abiding subject in the hotel industry, especially in crisis-shaken times, where owners and operators are again committing themselves for many years. Therefore, Susanne Stauss, Senior Editor of hospitalityInside.com, will explore the "Chain reactions" of "The malicious triangle of ownership, lease and franchise" with her guests at 3:30 p.m. as follows: for the franchisor Choice International Margit Hug, Managing Director Central European Operations; for the tenant and franchisee Grand City Hotels Christian Windfuhr, CEO; for the multi-brand franchisee and tenant RIMC from Hamburg, Gert Prantner, Managing Partner; Dr. Mathias Jung, Founder and Partner of Jung & Schleicher Rechtsanwaelte from Berlin, for legal evaluations.
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| Reiner Nittka, GBI AG. |
The last panel discussion of the 11th HID will start at 4:30 p.m. on the subject of "Niche hotels: Serviced apartments & dormitories". So far, Prof. Dr. Max M. Schlereth, Managing Partner of the largest German apartment provider Derag Living Hotels, has accepted the invitation as well as Reiner Nittka, Executive Board Member of GBI AG, who operates in both segments, and Rainer Nonnengaesser, Chairman of Youniq AG, a young business specialised in dormitories. Moderator will be Prof. Christian Buer, Head of Tourism Management/Hotel Management of Heilbronn University.
The entire programme with all data and additional information about the participants is available on the Expo Real website at this link. There you can also find any changes among the participants of the panel discussions, as the case may be. / kn
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