I Meet Hotel industry event adopts hybrid format in Paris to chart way forward for hospitality sector.

The I Meet Hotel industry event will take place 15 September in Paris. In a sign of the times, the B2B gathering will adopt an innovative hybrid format combining face-to-face discussions and online participation. The new format may be the shape of things to come for hotels and international business conferences.

The event, which will attract leading French speakers in hospitality, will give hoteliers and consultants the chance to take stock of a hospitality sector unrecognisable from the start of the year.

Frontline hospitality operators will address specific post-Covid challenges and new opportunities in revenue optimization, technology, innovative business models, post-Covid marketing, and customer loyalty.

There will also be a session on tourism strategies for destination France.

“We will hear straight talking by industry leaders. They will emphasise the opportunities that new operating realities present,” said Caroline Dal'lin, Director of Business Development of Bidroom, the organiser of I Meet Hotel.

The innovative hybrid event has been designed to attract a global French-speaking audience without borders.

Since its inception in 2018, I Meet Hotel has run four face to face events in Warsaw, Krakow, Istanbul and Amsterdam. Then, responding to the Covid crisis since March, I Meet Hotel held seven webinars showing how hoteliers can save money and survive by adapting their HR, marketing, sustainability, partner, and CRM processes. Those insights for hoteliers are available here.

Bidroom's CEO Michael Ros said that whether face-to-face or virtually, I Meet Hotel's overarching aim was to help hoteliers extend networks, build business, create new partnerships, and adopt sustainable practices.

“Combining simultaneous virtual streaming and a socially-distanced face-to-face meeting, I Meet Hotel is bringing the future of hospitality into the present,” said Ros. “It's a new model for hoteliers and meeting planners to try out.”

To register for and to find additional information for the event click here.
Additionally, to find out about sponsor opportunities email kristian@imeethotel.com.

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Email kristian@imeethotel.com for further information about I Meet Hotel, Bidroom and future hospitality sector events organised by Bidroom.

To sign up or find out more about presentations from previous I Meet Hotel webinars click here. Or email kristian@imeethotel.com. Additional information: www.imeethotel.com.

** To help hoteliers during the crisis, Bidroom has waived all hotel membership fees for 2020.

ABOUT I MEET HOTEL

I Meet Hotel is the first global industry event connecting hoteliers to the future of hospitality. Together, we will give our audience the keys to higher revenue and a customer loyalty approach with insightful conferences. We put emphasis on the networking session which enables all the participants to get to know each other, talk, exchange experiences and develop new business and personal relations. It is the perfect occasion to inspire and be inspired. I Meet Hotel events have recently taken place in Krakow, Istanbul, and Amsterdam. Upcoming ones in 2020 are in Paris (15 Sept), Milan (29 Oct), and SHMS Switzerland (28 Nov).

ABOUT BIDROOM
Bidroom is the world's first membership-based hotel booking platform. It has offices in Amsterdam, Krakow, Istanbul, and Paris and is on track to have over 140 employees by the end of 2020. Bidroom's fair-minded and transparent view on booking hotels and its unique, self-developed technology has gained praise in the hospitality industry worldwide since its introduction in 2016.

Since then, the company has earned many awards and accolades: Best “Grown Startup” from Hospitality Technology Forum 2019; Top Foreign Travel Startup 2018 at the Uzakrota Travel Awards; Tourism Trends Award 2018 - "IT for travel";  Startup Of The Year 2018 by travmagazine; Startup Innovation 2017 from World Tourism Forum Lucerne; Best Travel Startup of the Year 2017 from Uzakrota Travel Awards; Best Start-up in the Grown Startup category at the Hospitality Technology Forum 2019 in Zurich. Wired included Bidroom in its Hottest Startups in Amsterdam list in 2019; Forbes included it in its Eight Entrepreneurs And Their Startups That Are Shaping Travel Tech (2019)