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4Hoteliers.com

Global Hotel & Travel news resource, offering 1,000's of freely accessible news headlines and research articles, an international events calendar and an extensive link databank. The site is reaching a large and growing regular readers base worldwide and features a number of targeted marketing options.

American Tescor

American Tescor, LLC's electronic pre-employment screening identifies job applicants who are "high risk" in the areas of theft, substance abuse and violence. Tescor Screening provides employers with instant results and a high ROI from reductions in employee theft, workers' compensation abuse and a reduction of 50% or more in comp losses overall. Founded in 1979, ATLLC is now a division of Merchants Information Solutions, Inc. (www.merchantsinfo.com) and screens over 750,000 job applicants annually.

Argyle Executive Forum

Established in 2004, Argyle Executive Forum (AEF) produces conferences for the senior operating executives and Board members of private and public firms, private capital investment professionals, policy makers, as well as for members of the endowment, family office, and foundation community. AEF will produce 16 events in 2007 and between 18 -25 events in 2008. Content of the events is dedicated to an executive function (e.g., CFO Leadership Forum, CEO Leadership Forum), or to an industry (e.g., Leadership in Healthcare, Hedge Fund Leadership Forum). The events are one day in length, and the majority of the events take place in New York City. All events are by invitation only, and on average, each event convenes approximately 150 executives.

Berkshire Healthcare

Berkshire Healthcare is a midsize healthcare and senior-services company committed to meeting the continuing care needs of the aging population in the communities we serve. We are the largest nonprofit, long-term care company in Massachusetts. We own or operate 17 rehabilitation and nursing facilities (14 in Massachusetts, one in Ohio, and one in Pennsylvania), a community based hospice, and Kimball Farms, a lifecare retirement community in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Cody Kramer Imports (CKI)

Cody Kramer Imports (CKI) is the premier marketer of comprehensive, customized confectionery programs, offering one stop shopping for retailers. They are the leading supplier of private label mints, gum and many other confections here in the US. Private label, control label and exclusive retail branding are their areas of expertise. All products and packaging are tailored to the individual needs of each customer. From initial concept to delivery of finished product, they provide a turnkey operation. They offer competitive market analysis, product ideation, and pricing strategies. They also provide in?house graphic design for packaging, in addition to merchandising and POP displays. CKI offers product exclusivity due to its proprietary relationships with many foreign manufacturing facilities. Their AAA customer base is comprised of a broad cross section of all retail/distribution channels including: Target, CVS, Walgreens, Costco, Trader Joe's, Victoria's Secret, Meijers, Starbucks, Estee Lauder, Avon, Bath & Body Works, Old Navy, Home Depot, Subway, Walt Disney and many others.

Cruise Industry News

Cruise Industry News covers the world with four publications: Cruise Industry News newsletter - providing the insider's business news; Cruise Industry News Quarterly magazine - #1 in industry reporting; Cruise Industry News executive guide - continuously updated directory listing of management teams; and the Cruise Industry News Annual report - a comprehensive 440-page publication, tracking the industry since 1992 and forecasting through 2015. In its 23rd year, Cruise Industry News reaches all industry decision-makers worldwide.

DK Shifflet & Associates

DKS&A is the leading travel industry data source for consumer brand performance measures, product positioning, targeting, market assessment, traveler expenditures, volume estimates, and much more.

ehotelier.com

The one-stop website for hoteliers. 

Dedicated to meeting the needs of the International Hotelier's Community.

EyeforTravel

Eyefortravel was started by Tim Gunstone in 1997 and began with a small conference looking at Travel Distribution Technology and a news website.  It was then part of the holding company, the FC Group.  It is now a stand-alone Limited company packed full of researchers, entrepreneurs, and journalists.  Eyefortravel runs over twenty events per year, that take place on virtually every continent.  The conferences and trade shows are for the travel industry and the topics range from product-pricing to industry forecasting, to marketing and distribution.  In 2006, over 7,000 top travel executives attended the shows.  The Eyefortravel website, which covers all aspects of travel distribution, attracts from 80,000 to 100,000 unique visitors per month.

Gerencia De Hoteles & Restaurantes

Based in Miami, Gerencia De Hoteles & Restaurantes is a Latin Press, Inc. publication and e-newsletter serving the hotel and foodservice industries that is published bi-monthly to over 15,000 industry professionals. Celebrating its 12th year, Latin Press is a specialized publisher of Spanish language business publications for Latin America with other offices in São Paulo, Brazil and Colombia, South America. With a total monthly circulation of over 65, 000 readers, Latin Press covers a host of different facets of Latin American business, including heavy industrial, building trade, and hospitality.

Global Hospitality Resources, Inc.

Global Hospitality Resources®, Inc. (GHR), founded and manages the Global Hotel Network®, a fee-based membership association -- which provides industry leaders and executives with important market intelligence and news on the global hospitality industry. The firm publishes the industry acclaimed, GlobalHotelNetwork.com e-Newsletter, in addition to publishing the GlobalHotelNetwork.com web site and the GlobalHotelNetwork.com NEWS ALERT.

Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP)

Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) is an international professional association dedicated to providing its members with professional development resources, continuing education and networking opportunities. With over 4,600 members worldwide, HFTP provides a global network of hospitality finance and technology professionals dedicated to industry advancement.

hospitalityInside

hospitalityInside.com was founded in March 2005. It is the first purely editorial online magazine for the hotel industry, published bilingual in English and German and is only available by (paid) subscription. The idea behind is to create an independent, interactive and international information network between editors, users and experts to generate content which fits exceedingly to the users' needs. hospitalityInside.com geographically focuses on the Continental European market but also includes other international markets and players relevant to this focus area. Content includes the whole range of hotel management topics from financing, operating, marketing, human resources, technologies etc. The correspondent network is permanently growing; authors are based in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Great Britain and in the United States; Spain, Italy and Dubai are to come soon.

Hospitality Net

Hospitality Net is a leading and trendsetting online trade publication for professionals within the global hospitality & hotel industry. Launched in 1995, the portal serves a worldwide audience of hospitality professionals, providing them with both daily updated content and interactive services. The site offers industry news, multimedia streamed features, discussion platforms, a recruitment center, a supplier marketplace and several focus areas in areas such as technology and sales & marketing. Hospitality Net, which serves a vast registered user-base of highly targeted business professionals, is part of the network of portals in the hospitality industry.

Hospitality Technology Magazine

Hospitality Technology is the only publication focused on information technology (IT) solutions for the entire hospitality industry. Restaurant and hotel executives turn to HT and its portfolio of print, online, and face-to-face events for focused and reliable information on industry trends and valuable insight into what their peers are doing to enhance business performance. Through unique industry-specific research, focused reports, and in-depth editorial coverage, HT covers IT like no other industry publication. And with special conferences and events – online and in person – HT provides even more ways for technology solution providers to network with industry leaders.  www.htmagazine.com

Hotel Asia Pacific

Hotel China

HotelExecutive.com

HotelExecutive.com is visited daily by a readership of more than 20,000 hospitality executives and professionals. The site features abstracts of articles from our flagship e-publication, the weekly Hotel Business Review, and a summary of listings from the daily e-newsletter, Hotel Newswire. Hotel Business Review is a weekly journal of exclusive and original content, written by industry leaders, for industry leaders. Hotel Newswire delivers extensive coverage of news from hotels and their vendors and suppliers.

Hotel Interactive

The ultimate web portal for the savvy hospitality professional. hotelinteractive.com is an unparalleled, innovative resource created exclusively for hoteliers combining timely original news content, quality news features and extensive reference options with futuristic business tools. If you are seeking that competitive edge, hotelinteractive.com is where you want to be.

Hotel Resource

Hotel Resource predates the internet and was originally developed as a North American bulletin board for the hotel industry in the early 1990s.  It has since evolved into a central communications platform for various stakeholders within the hospitality and travel industries.  The company's proprietary syndication platform distributes news, trends, and research for the hotel, restaurant, gaming, cruise, travel, and other industries.  The company has operations in Canada and Mexico and provides multi-lingual software solutions.

HotelWorld Network

The HotelWorld Network encompasses a series of publications and live events that serve the hospitality industry including Hotel & Motel Management magazine, delivering news, analysis and operational strategies; Hotel Design magazine, celebrating the design excellence of hotels, resorts, lodges and destination spas; Luxury Hotelier, a digital-only platform reaching the exclusive audience of four-and five-star hotel owners and operators; and The Hotel Times, geared towards hospitality professionals in the global investment community. In addition, the HotelWorld Network presents live events such as the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) held in Berlin; the Russia & CIS Hotel Investment Conference; HOTEC Design and HOTEC Operations; HotelWorld Expo & Conference, part of International Hospitality Week and introducing IHIF Asia Pacific, a hotel investment conference in the Asia Pacific region.

Hsyndicate

With the active support of leading industry stakeholders, Hsyndicate centralizes, categorizes and redistributes filtered B2B intelligence from and to various stakeholders within the global hospitality industry. The result of these efforts is a unique and highly valuable online knowledge base which feeds market intelligence to various industry players such as hotel groups, trade associations, universities and schools, financial institutions and analysts, industry portals, and consultants. Today's Hsyndicate network reaches a community of 46,000 highly targeted industry professionals in specific segments of the global hotel industry, reaching from hotel chains, hotel associations, universities and public industry portals. Among others, Hsyndicate's current partners include AH&LA, IH&RA, HFTP and HSMAI.

I-CHRIE

International CHRIE, the global leader in hospitality and tourism education and research, is a nonprofit organization serving hospitality and tourism professionals worldwide.

International Hotel Conference

The International Hotel Conference is brought to you by Lodging Unlimited, Inc. LUI services include Hotel Management, Streamline and Operating Studies, Litigation Support as well as customized consulting. Morris E. Lasky, CEO of Lodging Unlimited, Inc., is chairman and co-founder of The Lodging Conference, now in its 12th successful year, and founder and producer of the International Hotel Conference in Rome. The 4th annual International Hotel Conference features superb networking, deal making, and expert speakers presenting interactive sessions designed to stimulate the audience of executive level hoteliers, managers, owners, developers, lenders, members of the media, and those who service the hotel industry.

International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC)

The International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC) is a professional society with 200 members in 21 countries. Membership is by invitation only and members are leaders in the industry in their respective areas of expertise. ISHC was founded in 1988 in recognition of the need for competent, unbiased advice, professional guidance and sound judgment on hospitality industry issues. All members subscribe to the ISHC Code of Professional Conduct. With over 50 different areas of specialty expertise represented in the society and member experience working in over 65 countries, ISHC represents a one of kind collection of experience and expertise worldwide.

iPerceptions

iPerceptions is North America's leading web focused attitudinal analytics provider. Its webValidator Continuous Listening solution "captures the voice" of the online customer. The webValidator Continuous Listening solution turns thousands of data points into easy-to-understand strategic and tactical decision support using a comprehensive proprietary perceptual framework to evaluate key elements of the visitor experience and predictive algorithms and modeling to identify those attributes that drive satisfaction. iPerceptions' clients include BMW, Radisson Hotels, Allrecipes.com, Unilever, Choice Hotels, Volvo, InterContinental Hotels, Reebok, Hilton Hotels, GM, L'Oreal, RCA, Mazda, Aerosoles, Land Rover and CompUSA. iPerceptions is based in New York with sales offices in Toronto, Montreal and London, England.

Lodging Hospitality

Lodging Magazine

Milestone Internet Marketing

Milestone Internet Marketing is a full-service marketing company for the travel industry.  Milestone has been providing online marketing services to the hospitality industry since 1998. Over the years, Milestone has developed proven internet marketing solutions that drive revenue and income for their clients and provides them with a significant return on investment.  Milestone is a preferred internet marketing vendor for several major hospitality brands and franchises.

Milestone offers a range of Internet Marketing Services for their clients.  The services include: website development, search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, website analytics/analysis, email marketing, Web 2.0, blogs/RSS, podcasts, mobile websites, and online video.

MindFolio

MindFolio develops and guides visionary concepts and masterplanned experiences for leisure, retail, residential, and working environments.  We base such creative concepts on rigorous analysis, intensive customer interaction, and "360°" strategic reasoning.  Our offices are in London, Chicago, and Düsseldorf.

Mindshare Technologies

Mindshare helps companies improve operational excellence, foster consumer satisfaction, build customer loyalty, and support employee retention. Our industry experts guide clients in building comprehensive Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) solutions. Mindshare's proprietary survey technology captures the voice of the customer in real-time and immediately transforms it into actionable intelligence through powerful and incisive reporting. As a hosted system, Mindshare is affordable and flexible, providing automated surveys and reports tailored to each client’s specific needs. The reports are web-accessible 24/7 or by scheduled email delivery. Mindshare serves more than 25 different industries including travel, hospitality, restaurant, financial, salon, automotive, and retail. Clients range from small regional chains to large multinational corporations. For information, visit www.mshare.net.

Parasol

Parasol is a boutique media relations and integrated marketing firm specializing in the luxury hospitality and lifestyle industry. Parasol’s integrated public relations and marketing campaigns reach target audiences with credibility and impact.  Based in New York City, Parasol offers more than 20 years of industry experience, providing strategic media relations and integrated marketing services to some of the world’s finest hotels and resorts, restaurants, chefs, wineries, spas and designers.  The company’s approach is strategic and relationship-driven.

Whether you are seeking to expand awareness and market reach, improve brand equity, or drive sales, Parasol can develop the right mix of elements to achieve your goals.  Press releases are not issued from afar.  Instead, Parasol works directly with editors, journalists, producers and other marketers to ensure that your coverage is compelling, comprehensive, and rich with meaningful brand message.

PhoCusWright Inc.

PhoCusWright is the travel industry research authority on how travelers, suppliers and intermediaries connect. Independent, rigorous and unbiased, PhoCusWright fosters smart strategic planning and tactical decision-making. PhoCusWright also produces several high-profile conferences in the U.S., Germany and India, and partners with conferences in the U.K., China and Singapore.

PKF Hospitality Research

As the research affiliate of PKF Consulting, PKF Hospitality Research (PKF-HR) possesses the expertise to analyze data in a variety of ways to best serve its customers.  These activities rely on the wealth of hotel and related information contained in its proprietary data warehouse of property-level income statements and sales prices.   These data provide the foundation for benchmarking products, market forecasts, and custom research for all parties who have an interest in lodging industry performance.

RealShare Hotel Investment & Finance Summit

Providing the most comprehensive array of products in the commercial real estate industry, Real Estate Media offers the immediacy of up-to-the-minute coverage via GlobeSt.com and GlobeSt.RETAIL; the focused coverage of our on-line newsletters the convenience of GlobeSt.WEEK; the depth, historical perspective, and editorial excellence of Real Estate Forum magazine; the targeted coverage of our three regional publications (Real Estate New York, Real Estate New Jersey, Real Estate Southern California); the exchange of ideas and networking possibilities available at our expanding RealShare Conference Series, - all written, edited, and produced by the most experienced, professional team serving today's commercial real estate industry.

Resort and Recreation Magazine

RESORT+RECREATION is a bi-monthly business magazine for resort/ hotel, spa & club managers.  RESORT+RECREATION Magazine keeps them up-to-speed on vital issues that affect day-to-day operations.

Restaurant Edge

Our principle ambition is to assist industry professionals with resources that protects their assets, employees and ventures with proven, credible information. We provide easy access to state and federal compliance rules and current industry news.

Shibata Publishing Co. Ltd.

The Hotel & Ryokan Monthly Japan

Synovate

Synovate is a global market research firm providing global support and a suite of research solutions to some of the world's largest companies.  Supported by  centers of excellence around the world and working closely with local offices, the company's client service teams are organized to mirror the requirements of global clients.  With fully owned operations in 118 cities in 52 countries, Synovate provides complete geographic coverage and service.  Its clients range from Fortune Global 500 companies to fast-growing entrepreneurial start-ups and come from all sectors of business: consumer packaged goods, media and advertising, financial services, government, quick serve restaurants, technology, telecommunications, travel and leisure, and more.

The Lodging Conference 2009

This year we will celebrate our 15th Annual edition of The Lodging Conference at the Arizona Biltmore on September 22-25. Since 1995, The Lodging Conference has been bringing together the hotel industry's most influential presidents and CEO's to discuss hotel strategies in development, finance, franchising, management and operations – And of course, to network and make deals. Conference participants have continually rated the Lodging Conference as the best event in the hotel industry. Last year, over 70% of the conference attendees had previously attended. That's a remarkable number in an industry where people are constantly changing. Check us out online at www.lodgingconference.com.

The Resort Trades

The Resort Trades is a publication of Wilson Publications and The Trades Publishing Company, which has been in the business of publishing recreation and hospitality industry trade journals for over twenty years. The Resort Trades and its sister publication, Resort Trades' Management & Operations, focus on the constantly evolving and exponentially growing timeshare resort industry and the emerging fractionals vacation club industry. The Resort Trades' industry website, www.ResortTrades.com, features a comprehensive archive of past articles and news releases that offer a complete analysis of the timeshare industry's history and future, as well as a directory of industry product and service providers.

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Unifocus

UniFocus provides guest, meeting planner satisfaction and employee attitude studies, plus labor and expense management systems. UniFocus' professional services include: business forecasting, asset performance assessment, organizational reengineering consulting, and training and development.

WageWatch, Inc.

WageWatch, Inc. is the premier provider of web-based compensation surveys for corporate human resource departments in the hospitality industry. The Company conducts local wage and benefit surveys in 55 markets in the United States and Canada. Its web-based compensation and benefits surveys assure subscribers of the most current and accurate wage, salary, and benefit data for the hospitality industry. The Director of Human Resources at a hotel may compare their hotel's compensation structure to competitors in a local labor market, or a corporate Vice President of Human Resources can benchmark their key positions across the country. WageWatch also conducts national compensation surveys for the International Spa Association and the Senior Living industry. Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Company has conducted wage and salary surveys since 1992.

WIWIH

WIWIH was launched May 2006, their initiative aims for them to become a valuable online business networking platform offered to professionals in the global hospitality industry. wiwih users represent the full spectrum of industry stakeholders ranging from hotel companies, trade associations, academics, consultants, analysts, suppliers, event organizers, students and media. Global hospitality professionals use wiwih to find and connect with other users, join groups with people who share similar areas of interest, find colleagues and Hotelschool classmates. WIWIH.org is an initiative by WIWIH Switzerland AG and is operated by Netherlands-based Hsyndicate.org.