Amsterdam, 13th October 2020

This month I Meet Hotel—Italy will bring together industry professionals and innovation to map the road to recovery for the hospitality industry, post Covid-19

● I Meet Hotel—Italy, will take place on 29th October 2020 via Zoom, brought to you by Bidroom.com, in cooperation with IDeaS

● The event will showcase leading industry experts and themes such as: hybridising the hotel model, rebuilding sustainably, and 2045 visions for the industry

● I Meet Hotel is the first dedicated global hoteliers' community, now online

Globally, the hospitality sector has taken a massive hit under Covid-19, with travel restrictions, restaurant and tourist attraction closures across the board. With I Meet Hotel—Italy, we want to help industry professionals to build back better and more sustainably, by bringing them expert insights from the worlds of hospitality, travel consulting and revenue management.

Our events:

● Italian Tourism: vision and scenarios for a valuable and sustainable restart. Maria Elena Rossi

● 2045: Visions and Previsions on Hotel Marketing. Simone Puorto

● Evolve to Rebound: how revenue must grow into a full commercial role to drive and thrive. Silvia Cantarella

● Increase bookings and customer value in a subscription economy. Michael Ros

● The Hospitality Dilemma. Giancarlo Carniani

● Hotels Reimagined. Nicola Accurso

Our speakers:

● Bruno Strati (event moderator): Leading revenue management strategist in Italy, CEO and founder of ExtraPro360.

● Giancarlo Carniani: General Manager ToFlorence Hotel Group, with more than three decades of industry experience

● Maria Elena Rossi: Director of Marketing and Promotion at the Italian National Tourism Agency (ENIT)

● Michael Ros: Founder and CEO of Bidroom, the world's first zero commission membership-based travel booking platform.

● Nicola Accurso: Managing Director of 21 Ways of Living, a new hospitality operator merging hospitality, co-living, co-working and community.

● Silvia Cantarella: Entrepreneur and founder of Revenue Acrobats, which offers flexible commercial coaching, mentoring and consulting.

● Simone Puorto: Author, and founder and CEO of Travel Singularity, a consultancy connecting the dots between digital disruption and the hospitality industry.

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

“New times call for new thinking and new tools in hospitality," said Patricia Diana, Sales Manager at IDeaS, a revenue management company specialising in the hotel sector. "Evidence shows that hoteliers who can master responsive pricing will do much better than their competitive set. That's why insights at I Meet Hotel will be so relevant to recovery."

I Meet Hotel & Bidroom Founder, Michael Ros said: "Covid-19 has changed the global hospitality industry forever, and the only way forward is through innovating and adapting. With I Meet Hotel—Italy, we want to arm the hotel sector with the most up to date insights and visions from top industry experts."

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 stronger customer loyalty.

I Meet Hotel—Italy builds on the success of previous live events in European capitals, and now online conferences.

About Bidroom

Bidroom was founded in 2016, and is the world's first membership-based hotel booking platform. It has offices in Amsterdam, Krakow, Istanbul, and Paris and has a growing staff of over 100.

In October 2020, Bidroom was selected for one of the twelve finalists for the Young Business Awards, the largest startup competition in the Netherlands.

The company has earned many awards and accolades including: 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.

About IDeaS

A pioneer and global technology leader, IDeaS offers industry-leading revenue management solutions for business of all types and sizes in the global hospitality and travel industries. The company transforms the right data into clear and actionable insight, so that clients can price, forecast and report with speed and confidence, improving business performance. IDeaS aims to make revenue management so user-friendly, insightful and profitable that customers wouldn't dream of doing it any other way. Visit: https://ideas.com.

To find out more about the event, visit: https://www.imeethotel.com

For Press queries please contact:

Kristian Lupinski

PR & Event Manager

E: kristian@imeethotel.com

T: +31 85 888 6190