Hospitality & Tourism Summit

Dear colleagues from the hospitality sector,

in the current time characterised by decrease of ability to buy of abroad and domestic clients it is necessary to find ways that can reduce the effect of external noninfluable negative factors and guarantee entrepreneurs in tourism business the possibility to overcome the time of recession in black numbers. More than anytime before there is need of good long-term strategy, good knowledge of operation management, understanding quality as a tool of competitiveness and orientation in tourism legislation.

Where to gain strenght for further development?
In this aspect the program of the annual conference Hospitality & Tourism Summit, which will be held in a season not so hectic as summer is, as participants wished. This way we are inviting you for the 12th year of the conference, which will take place on 12th and 13th April 2012 in Prague hotel Crowne Plaza and will be connected also with an interesting gala evening in Eco-technical Museum in Bubeneč.

Opening part of the program of the first day will be dedicated to questions from the area of funding and legislation of the tourism and trends on the side of domestic and abroad clientele. It will be concluded by great panel discussion with topic "drives and drags of tourism" which will surely inspire also confrontational contributions from auditorium.
Fairness, responsibility and directness should doubtlessly be corner stones of fustainable business. Representatives of hotel trade, gastronomy and speakers representing suppliers wil try to persuade participants that these values are worthy to honour in business. The closing session of practical case studies will introduce the best experience how to "improve efficiency, motivate and communicate". The second day of the conference will offer discussion session about discount and loyalty systems with participation of representatives of their critics and advocates, session about efficiency in gastronomy, session about marketing and destination management, session about crucial importance of management and motivating workers in services and session focused on developing tourism in regions, mainly with stress on cooperation between regions.

On behalf of organizers is looking forward to meeting you Barbora Krásná, Partner Blue Events
and
Pavel Hlinka, vice-prezident SOCR ČR