Lodging Hospitality’s “Lifestyle/Boutique Hotel Investors Conference”
is slated for October 11-13, 2010 in Miami at the Fontainebleau Hotel.
This-two-and-half day conference will focus on the growing lifestyle and
boutique sectors of the lodging industry.
Attendance will be approximately 150 hotel owners, operators and developers with sponsorships and support to come from the industry’s leading hotel brands and our co-sponsor HVS.
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LifeSTYLE/ Boutique Development Conference is
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Lodging Hospitality serves the domestic U.S. lodging industry, which includes hotels, motels, motor inns, and resorts. LH covers site selection, operations, design and decor, financing, building, personnel, maintenance, computerization, merchandising and renovation. Editorial is targeted to executives and managers of properties with more than 50 rooms - the segment most often targeted by vendors. This editorial is produced by a staff with more years of experience in the hospitality press than other industry publications.
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HVS Hotel Management is the division of HVS that performs all of the firm’s operations and related work in the United States. This work includes actual Hotel Management, Asset Management, Management Company Selection and Contract Negotiation, Brand Selection and Contract Negotiation, being a Court Appointed Receiver, Expert Witness Services, Pre-Opening Services, Hotel Performance Analysis, Investment Analysis, and related Consulting. We can provide our clients with one contact point for coordination of multiple services from other divisions of HVS in our 30 International offices such as appraisal/valuation, capital markets for new equity, design, renovation, repositioning coordination, and executive recruitment for the right team to execute the plan. | |
No hotel executive in the world has overseen the development and creation of more boutique hotels than Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre, California’s largest independent hotel company and America’s second largest boutique hotelier. At the age of 26 with no industry experience, Chip transformed a seedy 1950’s “no-tell motel” into the world-renowned Phoenix Hotel, a legendary rock ‘n roll hotel catering to the likes of David Bowie, Linda Ronstadt and Little Richard. Inspired by the French expression for “joy of life,” Chip created Joie de Vivre with the intention of developing what USA Today has called “the most delightfully schizophrenic collection of hotels in America.”
Building on an innovative design formula that inspires guests to experience an “identity refreshment” during their visit, today Joie de Vivre consists of over 40 unique and award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas across the state, over 3,000 employees, and annual revenues approaching $250 million. Chip and his company’s time-tested techniques and transformational leadership practices have been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, and the Wall Street Journal.
A best-selling author, Chip shares his unique prescription for success in his most recent book, PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow (Jossey-Bass, 2007). Chip’s previous books include The Rebel Rules: Daring to be Yourself in Business, with a foreword by Richard Branson (Simon & Schuster, 2001) and Marketing That Matters: 10 Practices to Profit Your Business and Change the World, co-authored with Eric Friedenwald-Fishman (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006).
In 2008, Chip was selected as one of the four finalists for the 2008 “Corporate Hotelier of the World” award by the prestigious Hotels magazine. Other honors include the Guerrilla Marketer of the Year for the U.S., National Humanitarian Hospitality Company of the Year, and Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2007, Chip was honored by the San Francisco Business Times as the Most Innovative CEO among business leaders across all industries in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco and East Bay business communities. The following year, Joie de Vivre was awarded the 2nd Best Place to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chip is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the Global Business Network and the Social Venture Network. A committed philanthropist, Chip founded San Francisco’s Annual Celebrity Pool Toss, which has raised over $3 million for inner city youth programs that now thrive in the troubled neighborhood where he launched his first hotel. Chip received his BA and MBA from Stanford University, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center in 2009.
Keynote Speaker
Scott W. Anderson, President Hospitality and Real Estate Group, Kohler Co.
WEBSITE: www.DestinationKohler.com; www.DestinationStAndrews.com
Scott W. Anderson is responsible for the continued growth and award-winning status of the Hospitality & Real Estate Group in its global operations. He is charged with ensuring that the service levels and physical properties reflect iconic leadership in the world’s luxury resort markets. Scott Anderson comes to Kohler Co. as Vice Chairman of Quintess, one of the largest resort destination clubs in the industry. He also has been President and CEO of High Country Hospitality - a hospitality management and technology company.
From 1994 to 1996, he was a Managing Director of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia with responsibility for all ticket sales, accommodations, merchandise, food and beverage, sponsor hospitality and marketing.
Prior to the Olympics (1990-1994) he was President and CEO of Callaway Gardens and the Ida Cason Callaway Foundation in Pine Mountain, Georgia, a complex that included 770 rooms, 17 tennis courts, 63 holes of golf, 7 dining outlets, 9 lakes and 1200 acres of hunting preserve. The Foundation included a 2500 acre horticultural theme park.
From 1979 to 1990, he was President of the world-class Hotel del Coronado near San Diego, California which received the Gold Key for 12 consecutive years.
Scott Anderson earned his Bachelor of Arts in Hotel and Restaurant Administration in 1972 from Washington State University. On its 75th anniversary, the Hotel School declared Mr. Anderson one of the 75 leaders of the industry over the prior 75 years.
Scott Anderson serves as the 2010 PGA Championship General Chair. He is a member of The American Resort and Development Association, HTEC Advisory Council for Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals, and is on the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Innkeepers Association. He is past President of the Georgia Hotel Association, Past Chairman of the E-Commerce Committee of the AH&LA, and has been on the board and executive committee of the California Hotel Association. He has been published in many articles in hotel related publications and is an accomplished speaker on the topics of hotel e-commerce and marketing.