
AGENDA
The agenda for the HSMAI and Phuket Hotels Association has been developed by senior leaders in Hotel Revenue, Marketing and Commercial Management to ensure we are providing the most appropriate sessions for hotels & resorts to learn more about how to increase revenue and profitability via digital.
Wednesday 13th July, 2022 – Agenda
Increasing Revenue through Optimising your Online presence
2:00pm – 5:30pm (then networking drinks until 6:30pm)
This ½ day event is where you’ll see hotel & industry leaders in Revenue, Marketing, Commercial and Sales sharing their insights and knowledge on trends in Hotel Revenue Optimization, Distribution, Pricing, Data, Marketing and more, all linking back to the conference theme of ‘increasing revenue through digital’.
Welcome from the HSMAI Asia Pacific President, Jackie Douglas and the Phuket Hotels Association President, Bjorn Courage, GM Intercontinental Hotel Phuket.
Introduction and overview of the 3-day program by MC for the day Sumi Soorian, Executive Director, Phuket Hotels Association, Owner Mrs B Bar & Table and Business Development Director, DeliveringAsia.
Show me the money.
Why is social selling important for hotels and how how to get out of the box and use your fastest to market channels.
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Speaker: Mark Ryan, Commercial Director New Hotel Openings – South East Asia & Korea IHG Hotels & Resorts & HSMAI Thailand Chapter Board Member.
A greater number of hotels are investing in automation software to be able to operate with lower costs and increasing profit margins. If you can adjust your strategy faster than your competition, you can more efficiently capture revenue opportunities with the right rates and offers.
If you could adjust your strategy faster than your competition, could you capture more revenue opportunities with the right rates, marketing tactics and offers? We’ve all heard about forward looking data, in this session, Amadeus will take us through how to use data to beat your competitors. Don’t miss it, your competitors will be in the room.

‘Personalisation’ has been a major buzzword in the hospitality and travel industry for a while now. With the pandemic placing a halt on the travel industry for the past two years, it is a perfect time to rethink how we can use personalisation tools to improve the customer journey. Hear how hotels are doing this and learn what you need to get started. Sounds expensive? It doesn’t have to be, there are some very affordable tools available to automate this.
Don’t miss this session, your competitors will be there.
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Getting the best from your Sales & Marketing function – Sunny Yu Grosic, DOSM, Andaz Pattaya & President, HSMAI Thailand
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Join us for cocktails and networking at the beautiful Laguna Phuket venue. Canapes and wine, beer and juices will be served. We’d love to meet you after the event. Bring your badge so we know you’re ‘one of us’!