Top speakers from the hotel industry and the marketing services sector are on show at the hotel marketing event of the year, the National Hotel Marketing Conference on 28th June. The event, the seventh since 2004, will take place at the Hilton St George’s Park, the Football Association’s brand new £100m centre of excellence near Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.

Speakers from the hotel industry include Peter Hancock, CEO of Pride of Britain Hotels, Roddy Whiteford, Director of The Feversham Arms & Verbena Spa, Martin Philips, MD of Recommended Hotels, Pamela Carvell, President of the Hotel Marketing Association, David Collins, Founder of Great National Hotels & Resorts, and Sarah Fussey, Head of Marketing for Best Western UK. From the marketing services sector comes Fiona Robson, MD of email marketing company Rocketseed, Tony Copeland, Chairman of leading direct marketing agency DMB Group, and Jill Simpson of BriefYourMarket.com.   The keynote speech 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.

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

Further information on the National Hotel Marketing Conference is on the conference website – www.hotelmarketing.org.uk – or can be obtained by contacting the conference  office on 01904 438100, or emailing conference@thetourismbusiness.com.

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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