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ww w. ar TO ab RE ian VIS G co IT IS TE nf R er TO e D nc AY e. co ! m 2008 3 – 5 May 2008 Look who’s speaking at AHIC 2008 HRH Prince Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Secretary General, Supreme Commission for Tourism - KSA HE Shaikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of Foreign Trade, United Arab Emirates HE Mohamed Ali Alabbar, Chairman, Emaar Properties PJSC HE Minister Sumbana, Minister of Tourism, Mozambique HE Marta Suplicy, Minister of Tourism, Brazil The Hon Michael Misick, Premier, Turks and Caicos Islands Ambassador Philip Lader, Chairman, WPP Group plc and Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley Martyn Lewis, Veteran news broadcaster & former BBC news presenter Lewis Gordon Pugh, Keynote Speaker Homi S. Aibara, Partner, Mahajan & Aibara Dr. Ghassan Aidi, President, Cham Palaces Hotels & President, IH&RA Dr Wadad Al Suwayeh, Chief Operating Officer, Oqyana Limited Ali Lakhram Al Zaabi, Executive Chairman, Pearl Azure Hotels Abdul Wahab Al-Halabi, Chief Operating Officer, Dubailand Abdulla Mohamed Saeed Almulla, Chairman, Almulla Hospitality Simon Anholt, Founder and Author, Anholt Nation Brands Index and Anholt City Brands Index Sami Al Ansari, Chief Executive Officer, Ishraq Gulf Real Estate Holding (BSC) Aboudi Asali, Vice-President - Lodging Development, Marriott International Inc. Wahid Atalla, Chief Operating Officer, Mubadala Buck Philippe Attia, Senior Vice President - Operations, Europe, Dolce International Gamal Aziz, President & CEO, MGM Mirage Hospitality John Bamsey, Chief Operating Officer - Middle East & Africa, IHG Paul Bell, Managing Director, ALDAR Hotels & Hospitality Surjit S. Bhalla, Chairman & Managing Director, Oxus Investments Gaurav Bhushan, Senior Vice President Development Asia Pacific, Executive Director India, Accor Asia Pacific Raymond Bickson, Managing Director & CEO, Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces Philippe Bijaoui, Vice President Business Development, Head of Development Hotel Missoni, The Rezidor Hotel Group Jean Marc Busato, Area Vice President Middle East and Africa, The Rezidor Hotel Group Yann Caillère, Chief Operating Officer, France, Southern Europe & MEA, Chief Executive Officer, Accor Hospitality, Sofitel Worldwide Philip Camble, Director, Cushmans & Wakefield Hospitality Paul Clark, Chief Executive, Virgin Hotels (Management) Ltd David R. Clifton, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia, Interval International Guy Crawford, Chief Executive Officer, Jumeirah Group Frank Croston, Partner, Hamilton Hotel Partners Marc Dardenne, Chief Executive Officer, Emaar Hotels & Resorts and Emaar Hospitality Group LLC Abhijit “Beej” Das, Managing Director, India, Molinaro Koger Bruce F. Davidson, Managing Director, Head of Hospitality Finance, WestLB AG Chris Day, Managing Director, Christie + Co Arthur de Haast, Global CEO, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Lyndall de Marco, Executive Director, International Tourism Partnership John Defterios, Host, CNN Market Place Middle East Paul Z. Diab, Director of Operations MENA, Golden Tulip Hotel & Resorts Ulrich T. Eckhardt, President Middle East & Africa, Kempinski Hotels Selim El Zyr, President & CEO, Rotana Imad Elias, Executive Vice Present & CEO, Rotana Hotels Chris Evans, Partner, Hamilton Hotel Partners Paul Flackett, Managing Director, IMEX Ed Fuller, President & Managing Director, Marriott Lodging International Pascal Gauvin, Vice President Operations UAE & Qatar, IHG Peter Giamalva, President and Managing Director, Northcourse Real Estate Solutions John Goldwyn, Associate, Senior Project Planner and Landscape Architect, WATG Mary Gostelow, Editor and Publisher, Gostelow Report Alain Guernier, Chief Executive Officer, Tamani Islamic Hotels & Resorts Daniel Hajjar, Managing Partner, Layia Hospitality Kay Halm, Director, Environmental Management & Technologies, TDO Tourism Development Organisation Mohamed Hammour, Executive Chairman, Guidance Financial Group and Chairman, Shaza Hotels Tim Hansing, Senior Vice President, Acquisitions and Developments, Kingdom Hotel Investments Gerhard Hardick, Director, Roya International Christopher Hartley, Chief Executive, Shaza Hotels Richard Hartman, Retired Executive Director, IHG Elias Hayek, Vice President Legal-Development EAME, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc Michael Henssler, Area Director, Kempinski Hotels, General Manager, Kempinski Hotel Mall of the Emirates Jean-Paul Herzog, President - Middle East & Africa, Hilton Hotels Roger Hill, Chief Executive Officer, Gettys Ron Hilvert, Managing Director, The Emirates Academy Lisa Hughes, Vice President and Publisher, Condé Nast Traveler Naseem Javed, President, ABC Namebank International Brian Johnson, Managing Partner, Godwin Austen Johnson Architects KB Kachru, Executive Vice President South Asia, Carlson Hotels Asia Pacific Russell Kett, Managing Director, HVS Raman Khanna, Director Business Development & Commercial, ALDAR Hotels & Hospitality Kirk Kinsell, President, EMEA IHG - Asia Helmut Knipp, Senior Vice President - Development, Langham Hotels International Gerald Lawless, Executive Chairman, Jumeirah Group Robert Lee, Executive Director - Investment Projects, Nakheel PJSC Alan Leibman, President & Managing Director, Kerzner International Eric Lepleux, Chief Marketing Officer, Accor Thierry Loué, Managing Director, Jones Lang LaSalle MENA Panos Loupasis, Regional Director Business Development Middle East, The Rezidor Hotel Group Alasdair Maclean, Partner, Hotel Specialist Group, Davis Langdon LLP Peter Macleod, Executive Director Residential Development Europe, Africa & Middle East, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Paul Macpherson, Chief Development Officer, Jumeirah Group Peter Malone, Managing Director, Madison Mayfair Faiz Mayalakkara, Director-Investments, Nakheel Hotels Ivor McBurney, Vice President Development - Middle East, Hilton Hotels Jalil Mekouar, Executive Vice-President, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Pierre Moerland, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Al Qudra Real Estate Development Piaras Moriarty, Vice President Vacation Ownership, IFA Hotels & Resorts Amine E. Moukarzel, President, Flamingo Hotels and Senior VP & Managing Director, Golden Tulip Hotels & Resorts Arif Mubarak, Chief Executive Officer, Bawadi ™ Shingi Munyeza, Group Chief Executive Officer, Zimbabwe Sun Limited Tom O’Grady, Partner, Head of Real Estate, DLA Piper Middle East LLP Edmund O’Sullivan, Chairman, MEED Events John Podaras, Operations Manager, TRI Hospitality Consulting Ram S. Ramasundar, Senior Executive Director, DLF Hotels Holdings Limited Richard W. Riley, Managing Director, Emaar Hotels & Resorts Baudilio Ruiz, Chairman, OBM International Gavin Samson, Director, TRI Hospitality Consulting Joe Sita, Chief Executive Officer, Nakheel Hotels Arne Sorenson, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & President Continental European Lodging, Marriott Lodging International Otto Stehlik, Chairman, Protea Hotels Richard Stockton, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dr Crispian Tarrant, Chief Executive, BDRC Hotel Research Vijay Thacker, Director, Horwath HTL Manav Thadani, Managing Director, HVS - India Steve Tight, Chief Executive Officer, Aqua Dunya Nick J. Turner, Managing Director - Middle East, Group RCI Manfred Ursprunger, Chief Executive Officer, QE2 Enterprises, Nakheel Hotels Roeland Vos, President, Europe, Africa & Middle East, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc Trevor Ward, Managing Director, W Hospitality Group Jeff Weinstein, Editor in Chief, HOTELS Magazine / HOTELS’ Investment Outlook James Wilson, Chief Executive Office, Dubai World Africa – A Dubai World Company Sean Worker, Managing Director & SVP International Operations, Wyndham Hotel Group International Jonathan Worsley, Chairman, The Bench Keith Yates, President & CEO, Performa Global Can you afford not to be there? http://www.arabianconference.com http://www.arabianconference.com http://www.arabianconference.com

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