International Hotel Investment Forum - Asia Pacific

Coffee Networking Break

What is it about some Asian markets that so discourage long term FDI in their hotel sectors? 

What implication has that had for their hotel industry returns up to 2012? Where can change be expected, and does that present status impact negatively on their potential hotel investment returns? 

Moderator: Kevin B Murphy, President & CEO, Asiawide Hospitality Solutions

Panel:

Anthony G. Virili, President & CEO, Solare Hotels, Japan 

Ratnesh Verma, Senior Vice President, Real Estate and Development Hyatt Hotels & Resorts

Simon Allison, EVP & Chief Development Officer, ONYX Hospitalty 

Do we need more Luxury - or only just LESS people wanting to build ONLY Luxury?

Are you building the right hotels for your market? Does what you want to build prejudice your ability to borrow development finance? What is the right place for Luxury? And when is it the wrong product?

Moderator: Keith Yates, Chairman & CEO, Yates and Partners 

Panel:

James Stuart, Managing Partner, The Brand Company 

Erik van Keulen, Senior Vice President Development - Asia Pacific, Whitbread Asia Pacific

John Johnston, President, Raffles Hotels & Resorts

Francis Killory, VP Development  - Asia Pacific, Jumeirah Hotels

Lunch & Networking Break

Who is keen to lend? What for & for how much? If Asia is growing, why is it so hard to get hotel financing still?

Where and what for? And again, likely where not for the present? Is it what you want to borrow, OR what you want to build today? Or maybe where tomorrow and how you handled it last time around? What offers an investor the best chance of hotel financing today? 

Moderator: Kevin B. Murphy, President & CEO, Asiawide Hospitality Solutions

Panel:

Morgan Laughlin, Managing Director, Grosvenor Funds Management - Asia Pacific

Francis Killory, VP Development  - Asia Pacific, Jumeirah Hotels

Soo Jin, Senior Manager – Advisory, Korea, Cushman & Wakefield Hospitality

What does the AP region need more of to adjust their hotel development pipelines for greater stability and profitability in the next 5 years?

Who will make those adjustments? Will it be the Developers, Lenders, Bankers, & the Operators? What can they each do to improve that possibility?

Moderator: Daniel Voellm, Managing Director
, HVS Global Hospitality Services

Panel: 

Delton Smith, Feasibility & Development Finance Director, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts

Elaine Young, EVP & MD North Asia, Onyx Hospitality

Erik van Keulen, Senior Vice President Development - Asia Pacific, Whitbread Asia Pacific

Cook, Thief, Wife or Lover? What are the key issues in ensuring an effective and strong relationship between owner and operator? 

HOFTEL examines what makes for a stronger, and more productive partnership that ensures best practice and achievable profitability? 

Moderator: Simon Allison, Chairman, Hoftel Limited

Panel:

Chris Hur, Managing Director, Pacifica Partners

David Mallinson, Hospitality Partner, Mayer Brown JSM

Kevin Wallace, President & CEO, Jebel Ali International Hotels

Andrew MacGeoch, Hospitality Partner, Mayer BrownJSM

Coffee Networking break

Are there new hotel ownership models for Asia in the future?

Does Asia have the chance to see a new shift in opening up participation in hotel ownership to more capital sources than just the HNWIs and family empires so dominant to date? Will heritage owners in Asia see future benefit in new capital and equity partnerships with a new win/win approach? Who is the better operator at showing the more consistent returns? 

Moderator: Kevin B Murphy, President & CEO, Asiawide Hospitality Solutions

Panel:

Delton Smith, Feasibility & Development Finance Director, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts

Tim Dean-Smith, Managing Director, The Beach Republic Group

Andrew MacGeoh, Hospitality Partner, Mayer Brown JSM

If it was your money, where would you build and what? 

Hear from those who more than occasionally need to deal with the mistakes in matching hotels to market realities, as to where they’d put their own money in hotels in Asia today, and tomorrow. 

Moderator: James Stuart, Managing Partner, The Brand Company

Panel:

Keith Yates, Chairman & CEO, Yates and Partners

Kevin Wallace, President & CEO, Jebel Ali International Hotels.

Soo Jin, Senior Manager - Advisory, Korea, 
Cushman & Wakefield Hospitality 

Jonas Ogren, Area Director – Asia, STR Global 

How can Hotel Operators better help qualify financing risks?

Who is the better operator at showing the more consistent returns? Who has the owner’s best ear in Asia? Who has the clearer market positioning, and evolving rather than revolving service brand and market philosophies for their customers, and investors?

Moderator: Kevin B Murphy, President & CEO, Asiawide HospitalitySolutions

Panel:

Morgan Laughlin, Managing Director, Grosvenor Funds Management - Asia Pacific

Kevin Wallace, President & CEO, Jebel Ali International Hotels.

Greg Findlay,  General Manager, W Seoul-Walkerhill

Simon Allison, EVP & Chief Development Officer, ONYX Hospitalty

End of Day One

Evening Networking Reception