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mySmart Hotel attends Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific (HICAP)

The Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific is Asia’s most prominent and longest running hotel investment conference celebrated its 20th anniversary this year.

The conference, which ran from 14th to the 16th October 2009 was hosted at the InterContinental Hong Kong. As the premier gathering of the hotel investment community in the Asia Pacific region for the last two decades, HICAP brings strategic insights to investors, financiers, developers and leading industry professionals about the opportunities in the region. This year HICAP attracted nearly 800 high level executives from around the globe. mySmart Hotel has benefitted enormously through it’s involvement at HICAP, capitalizing on the benefits of rubbing shoulder with key hospitality stakeholders from the region, in fact around the world.

HICAP is designed to provide the Asia Pacific hotel investment community a great opportunity to stay informed, to stay ahead of the curve and to keep in touch with key industry leaders.

• Paul Brown, President, Global Brands and Shared Services, Hilton Hotels Corporation
• Eric Danziger, President and CEO, Wyndham Hotel Group
• Steve Haggerty, Global Head-Real Estate and Development, Hyatt Hotels Corporation
• Frits van Paasschen, President and CEO Starwood Hotels and Resorts to name but a few.

Over the three days some 18 Plenary Sessions and Special Interest forums were conducted. The days commenced at 8:30am and concluded with a Gala Networking Reception each night; long days with lots to take in.

Of special interest to mySmart Hotel were the sustainability related workshops and presentations. Globally, sustainability within Hotels is a hot topic and a number of hotels and operators are scrambling to identify what the best solution is for them. In Australia mySmart has position itself as a leader in Hotel Sustainability Solutions (HSS) through the implementation of mySmart Hotel’s energy collation and reporting solution enGauge and the internationally renowned room management system Inncom. Through contact with many, many delegates, it’s apparent that were in the RIGHT SPACE of HSS. An interesting comment that was made during the conference to me personally, is that Australia is perceived as the leader in the region for HSS.