Asian hotel investors’ summit

 Skyrocketing visitor arrivals and Thai Government plans to invest in tourism related infrastructure are behind the decision to hold one of the region’s leading hotel investment conferences in Bangkok for the first time.

The 5th Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference, an IHIF Summit organised by Questex Hospitality Group, will be held 15 to 16 May at the Dusit Thani, Bangkok.

A leader in Thailand’s hospitality industry, Dusit International managing director and CEO, Chanin Donavanik, heads a list of 50 speakers drawn from the region’s hospitality industry .

Questex Hospitality Group VP Marilyn McHuge, reports more than 300 delegates are expected at the conference, including over 200 hotel owners/investors, operators, developers, policy makers, designers, architects and master planners in Asia.

Chanin Donavanik, managing director and CEO, Dusit International.

“Thailand is emerging as the hub for tourism in the region, with over 23 million arrivals expected in 2013 and the government expecting tourism revenues to exceed Bt2 trillion by 2015,” McHuge said. “This exploding market will receive a further boost following the introduction of a master plan that has been designed for the sector by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, with 28 infrastructure projects approved or in the pipeline and many more on-ground opportunities to discover.”

Sourced: ttrweekly