Worsley said levels of interest continued to surge from both within the region and from overseas, with delegate numbers looking to more than double in the four years since its launch.
AHIC attracts investors, developers, operators, financiers, consultants, architects and design specialists, further confirming the dynamism of the regional hotel industry.
He said that the primary objectives for AHIC were four-fold: "From the outset, we were looking to raise awareness of the region's tourism industry; to create a forum for the discussion and establishment of best practice and to encourage high level networking opportunities.
"Above all, we wanted to facilitate a conference that became the leading hotel investment conference in the Middle East that attracted key decision makers from the region and beyond." Worsley said that these objectives were being enthusiastically endorsed by the industry and that the surge in attendance stands as a sign of AHIC's acceptance as the premier event for region's hospitality investment sector.
"We are thrilled to see that AHIC has become the place where introductions and contacts are made enabling new ventures and business opportunities", he said.
AHIC is one of the fastest growing conferences in its sector of which nearly 50% of delegates come from outside the Middle East.
The agenda for the 2008 will cover topics such as the environment and sustainability, pipeline dynamics, new destinations, staffing, fractional ownership and design issues.
In addition, the conference will host a special half-day summit on India for the first time.
The Arabian Hotel Investment Conference is organised by The Bench and MEED.
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Arabian Hotel Investment Conference
AHIC 2008
Madinat Jumeirah Convention Centre
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
May 3-5 2008
www.arabianconference.com
Details can be found on www.arabianconference.com
About the organisers:
Media Enquiries to Strategic Solutions:
The Bench
The Bench, a global partner with Smith Travel Research (STR), is a market leader in providing daily, weekly and monthly benchmarking data to more than 34,000 hotels worldwide. As the leading provider of online real-time benchmarking data, The Bench brings accurate hotel performance statistics to the market at an unparalleled speed. With the flexibility and ease of creating an unlimited number of competitive sets, configure reports at will in a multiple of formats and access all information on a 24 hour basis, The Bench users are able to maximise their RevPAR penetration by measuring their daily performance against their competitors. Smith Travel Research, the world's largest and most respected supplier of market information to the hotel industry has joined forces with The Bench to provide a single source of accurate data on a global basis.
Jonathan Worsley, Chairman of The Bench is one of the organisers and founders of the International Hotel Investment Forum held each year in Berlin. In 2005, he was responsible for launching the successful Arabian Hotel Investment Conference. Worsley sits as an advisor to the World Travel & Tourism Council which represents many of the leading companies operating worldwide in the travel and tourism industry.
www.thebench.com
+44 1483 835794 or
+44 208 297 2053
MEED
MEED (Middle East Economic Digest) is internationally recognised as providing essential information for anyone doing business in, or with, the Middle East and North Africa. MEED now attracts over 70,000 individual readers each week, across 70 countries worldwide. MEED Conferences is part of the leading information brand in the Middle East working to provide delegates with the very latest business sensitive information.
For more than a decade, MEED Conferences has organised events attended by senior government officials and thousands of international business people. The conference series is aimed at companies active or seeking business in the markets of the Middle East.
MEED is well established as the source of strategic and accurate regional information placing it in a unique position to bring together high-calibre speakers on + 9714 368 1949
AHIC 2008
Madinat Jumeirah Convention Centre
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
May 3-5 2008
www.arabianconference.com
Details can be found on www.arabianconference.com
About the organisers:
Media Enquiries to Strategic Solutions:
The Bench
The Bench, a global partner with Smith Travel Research (STR), is a market leader in providing daily, weekly and monthly benchmarking data to more than 34,000 hotels worldwide. As the leading provider of online real-time benchmarking data, The Bench brings accurate hotel performance statistics to the market at an unparalleled speed. With the flexibility and ease of creating an unlimited number of competitive sets, configure reports at will in a multiple of formats and access all information on a 24 hour basis, The Bench users are able to maximise their RevPAR penetration by measuring their daily performance against their competitors. Smith Travel Research, the world's largest and most respected supplier of market information to the hotel industry has joined forces with The Bench to provide a single source of accurate data on a global basis.
Jonathan Worsley, Chairman of The Bench is one of the organisers and founders of the International Hotel Investment Forum held each year in Berlin. In 2005, he was responsible for launching the successful Arabian Hotel Investment Conference. Worsley sits as an advisor to the World Travel & Tourism Council which represents many of the leading companies operating worldwide in the travel and tourism industry.
www.thebench.com
+44 1483 835794 or
+44 208 297 2053
MEED
MEED (Middle East Economic Digest) is internationally recognised as providing essential information for anyone doing business in, or with, the Middle East and North Africa. MEED now attracts over 70,000 individual readers each week, across 70 countries worldwide. MEED Conferences is part of the leading information brand in the Middle East working to provide delegates with the very latest business sensitive information.
For more than a decade, MEED Conferences has organised events attended by senior government officials and thousands of international business people. The conference series is aimed at companies active or seeking business in the markets of the Middle East.
MEED is well established as the source of strategic and accurate regional information placing it in a unique position to bring together high-calibre speakers on + 9714 368 1949
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