Jonathan Humphries, Chairman of HoCoSo, will host the Owners Panel at the Hotel Investment Conference CEE & Caucasus (HOTCO), Budapest, 30-31 January, Kempinski Hotel Corvinus. Meet the ones who dared to enter the most complex segment of the real estate sector often viewed as the riskiest and find out the truth behind their reasons to stick to hotel investments. Four panelist on the Owners Panel are:

Moderator: HoCoSo, Jonathan Humphries, Founder and Owner

Library Hotel Collection: Henry Kallan, President and Owner

Orbis: Marcin Szewczykowski, CFO

CP Holdings and Danubius Hotel Group: Mark Hennebry, Director – Hotels

AL Haboor Group LLC: Sanjeev Agarwala, COO

HOTCO is the first international hotel and resort real estate investment conference focusing solely on Central and Eastern Europe. As local economies rebound, CEE has the most potential for hotel development and growth in Europe – HOTCO will be a space where hospitality industry members come together to encourage and cultivate such developments.

Conference Topics To Include (according to programme schedule):

  • The Potential of Hungary as a Tourist Destination Redefining Itself
  • Development Landscape and Project Pipeline
  • Events to Stimulate Investment
  • Travel and Tourism Overview and Demand Trends in CEE and Caucasus
  • Developing Hotels in Lesser Known Regions of the Balkans
  • What Drives International Brand Expansion?
  • Invest or Divest – When is the Right Time?
  • Tranactions Overview
  • Brands Galore – Blurring Lines Between Brand Standards and Categories – Are We Confusing Consumers?
  • Romania – The Next Hotel Boom in CEE?
  • How Do Projects Get Done in the Caucasus?
  • Maximizing Revenues in a Changing World, and Are the OTAs the 21st Century Hotel Brands?
  • TCV – The CEO Views
  • Guest Nation, Israel: Hospitality and Technology in the Start-up Nation
  • Sharing Economy – Threat or Opportunity?
  • The Underestimated Risk of Cyber Security
  • Owner’s Panel

About HoCoSo

HoCoSo is a Swiss-based company providing solutions for hospitality industry, with a focus on the following areas: investment, development, asset management and advisory services within the extended-stay hotel and serviced apartment sectors in Europe; hotel development and investment in Africa; and student and executive hospitality education globally.

Jonathan Humphries is the Chairman and Owner of HoCoSo. He brings together teams of global experts to suit a client’s needs.

Jonathan Humphries has almost twenty years’ experience in the hotel and real estate sectors.  For the last eleven years he covered EMEA region, supporting the expansion of Marriott International’s fifteen brands. He brought a tailor-made extended-stay Residence Inn by Marriott concept to Europe in 2008. He has been engaged on major acquisitions, renovations, extensions, re-brandings, contract extensions and terminations and created strategic road maps for both countries and cities across EMEA.

Contact:
Phone: +41 (0)78 661 61 72
Email: Lanazhang@hocoso.com
Web: www.hocoso.com