HSMAI Member Update - Summer 2008 - (Page 8) memberupdate HSMAI Global Dubai Forum Focuses on Key Issues Impacting Sales and Marketing Professionals HSMAI Dubai and Abu Dhabi Organizing Committees Moving Full Speed Ahead with Development of New Chapters HSMAI hosted an invitation only forum in Dubai at the end of May to discuss key issues impacting sales and marketing professionals in Dubai. Seventy-five sales, marketing, revenue management and distribution executives attended the event which was held at the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management on May 22, 2008. The half-day forum discussed supply and demand growth, labor and training needs in the Dubai market and the impact of government influence and regulations on the hospitality industry. The HSMAI Dubai organizing committee also held a post-forum meeting in which committee members selected Kristie Goshow, group director of distribution marketing for the Jumeirah group, as chair of the Dubai organizing committee. In conjunction with the “HSMAI Global is meeting in Dubai, memexcited about this bers of the Abu Dhabi organizing committee met development in two on May 24 to discuss the markets of the formation of a second Middle East chapter. The world where the Abu Dhabi committee appointed Mona Faraj as travel and tourism chair. Farah is the chief infrastructure is marketing officer of One to One Hotel developing at an Management. unprecedented “Both organizing committees are moving ahead pace.” with achieving metrics to be chartered by this fall or sooner,” said Robert A. Gilbert, CHME, CHA, president and CEO of HSMAI Global. “HSMAI Global is excited about this development in two markets of the world where the travel and tourism infrastructure is developing at an unprecedented pace.” For more information on the development of the Dubai and Abu Dhabi chapters and the event in the U.A.E. visit: www.hsmaimiddleeast.org. HSMAI leaders were on hand for a meeting of the organizing committee for a new HSMAI Global chapter in Abu Dhabi in May. A similar meeting was held with organizing committee members for a new chapter in Dubai. 75 sales, marketing, revenue management and distribution executives attended HSMAI in 3D: Demystifying Distribution in Dubai which was held at the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management. 8 www.hsmai.org http://www.hsmaimiddleeast.org http://www.hsmai.org
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