The speaker line-up has now been finalised for the “hotel marketing event of the year”, the National Hotel Marketing Conference on 28th June, and includes senior marketing managers from the UK’s largest hotel consortium, one of the leading daily deal sites in Europe, one of England’s leading design-led hotels, a former Hilton International Senior Vice-President of Marketing, a former PA to Sir David Frost, and the Hotel Marketing Association’s current Young Marketer of the Year.  The event, the seventh since 2004, takes place at the Hilton St George’s Park, the Football Association’s brand new £100m centre of excellence near Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.

The full line-up of speakers at this year’s National Hotel Marketing Conference is:

- Pamela Carvell, President of the Hotel Marketing Association

- Peter Hancock, Chief Executive of Pride of Britain Hotels

- Sarah Fussey, Head of Marketing for Best Western Hotels UK

- David Collins, Founder of Great National Hotels & Resorts

- Miranda Ballard, Director of Muddy Boots Real Foods and former PA to Sir David Frost

- Martin Philips, Managing Director of Recommended Hotels

- Nick Stafford, General Manager Europe for Living Social Escapes

- Roddy Whiteford, Director of The Feversham Arms & Verbena Spa and MD of Hotelfone

- Jon McClelland, Commercial Director of Brooklands Hotel Surrey

- Suzanna Mavity, Director of BriefYourMarket.com

- Tony Copeland, Chairman of leading direct marketing agency DMB Group

- Fiona Robson, Managing Director of email marketing company Rocketseed

- Dexter Moren, Managing Partner of hotel architects Dexter Moren Associates

- Chris Timbs, Manager, Brand Marketing EMEA, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, and the Hotel Marketing Association’s current Young Marketer of the Year

The keynote speech at the conference, on “Pushing the Boundaries in Hotel Marketing” will be given by one of the UK’s leading marketers, Mike Ashton.  Mike was formerly a Senior Vice-President of Marketing for Hilton Hotels, and now runs Ashton Brand Consulting Group, with some of the country’s leading blue-chip companies as clients.

The Conference is expected to attract up to 200 hotel owners, General Managers and marketing and sales managers, hotel consultants and other marketing suppliers and agencies.  It is organised by The Tourism Business, in partnership with the Hotel Marketing Association and the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Bookings can be made through the conference website – www.hotelmarketing.org.uk – or by calling the conference office on 01904 438100, or emailing conference@thetourismbusiness.com.

Notes

For further media information, photographs, conference attendance or interviews with speakers, please contact:

Martin Evans, Conference Organiser

National Hotel Marketing Conference

Tel. 01904 438100 / 07702 912938

E –mail - martin@thetourismbuisness.com
www.hotelmarketing.org.uk / www.thetourismbusiness.com