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Earlier than the summer time break, HSMAI Europe’s closing Energy-Up shall be in Amsterdam on Thursday, July third with the next subject: Beginning January 1, 2026, the VAT price on lodge stays might enhance from 9% to 21%. We’ll dive into what this might imply for what you are promoting and methods to get forward of the change with sensible insights
HSMAI Europe members can be a part of without cost for the Energy-Up in Europe. See the preliminary calendar: hsmai.eu/occasion.
We’re on summer time break till August 21, however we shall be again in Oslo that night. Matter: The Evolution of Luxurious: Redefining Excessive-Finish Hospitality for New Technology.
As we transfer into the second half of the 12 months, we’re happy to share some thrilling updates from our latest actions and upcoming initiatives throughout Europe and past. With momentum persevering with to construct round our native conferences & occasions, strategic partnerships, and future gatherings, we’re extra dedicated than ever to creating platforms for collaboration, innovation, and business progress throughout the hospitality business.
We’re happy to share some thrilling updates from our latest actions and upcoming plans throughout Europe.
New Podcast Launching In the present day
We’re launching a brand new episode of the HSMAI tomorrow begins Now Podcast sequence, obtainable at present. On this episode, Gemma Greenwood, Journalist, along with friends Younger Nguyen, Founder & CEO at D2O, and Cecilie Laeskogen, CEO at Sundvolden Resort in Norway, mirror on sustainable hospitality, specializing in the profitability of profitable sustainable initiatives.
How can we mitigate the danger notion related to the change that sustainability calls for? And what have some accommodations performed particularly within the title of sustainability already? Why not tune in to listen to from business voices shaping the way forward for hospitality.
You possibly can take heed to it right here
Profitable Occasions in Athens and Lisbon
Following profitable gatherings on the Industrial Technique Boards in each Athens and Lisbon in April, we’re inspired by the robust engagement from native contributors. These occasions have reaffirmed the necessity for domestically anchored discussions and the constructing of robust connections throughout totally different manufacturers and sectors with extra native conferences that came about in the previous few weeks in June. We’re dedicated to persevering with this momentum with a sequence of latest native occasions deliberate within the months forward.
Connecting Future Leaders (CFL): From Oslo to all of Europe
What started as an area initiative in Oslo only a few years in the past has now advanced right into a dynamic, worldwide platform for rising hospitality professionals.Our after-work conferences designed to spark dialogue, networking, and mentorship are actually often hosted in each Oslo and London.
With rising enthusiasm and group help, we’re excited to increase subsequent to the Netherlands, France, and Spain. Every location brings its personal vitality and native expertise, however the mission stays the identical: Join, encourage, and develop the subsequent era of hospitality leaders.
Strengthening our presence in Spain
After a really profitable assembly in Madrid in Could, the place we have been kindly hosted on the Radisson Resort Group places of work, we’re excited to return to Spain with much more exercise this 12 months. This October, we shall be again a number of occasions:
- October 2 – Madrid – Hosted as soon as once more by Radisson Resort Group, we’ll give attention to Income Administration in a dynamic after-work setting.
- October 9 – Palma de Mallorca – A by-invitation-only roundtable on Distribution, held along side the Hospitality Pricing Innovation (HPI) sequence.
And there’s extra to return:
- Later this 12 months, we may also be bringing the HSMAI Europe MICE Workshop to each Madrid and Barcelona with actual dates to be introduced later.
- Host our first Connecting Future Leaders
occasion in Spain in late 2025
To maintain the momentum going, we shall be establishing a Nationwide Advisory Board after the summer time to assist form and information our future initiatives in Spain.
Returning to France
We lately hosted two profitable Energy-Up occasions in Paris this June, and the suggestions has been very optimistic. Constructing on this momentum, we plan to determine a Nationwide advisory board after the summer time to information future initiatives.
Wanting forward, we goal to:
- Proceed internet hosting Energy-Up occasions quarterly (4 occasions a 12 months)
- Later this 12 months, we may also be bringing the HSMAI Europe MICE Workshop to Paris
- Host our first Connecting Future Leaders occasion in Paris in late 2025
- Launch the DigiTech and Industrial Technique Discussion board in Paris with dates at present being explored for 2026
We’ve got already began brainstorming concepts and partnerships, and we’re excited to develop our presence and group in France.
Future YOU
Future YOU is an area occasion designed to assist younger college students to find rewarding (and typically sudden) profession paths within the hospitality business. One thing that began in Norway expanded to the Netherlands final 12 months. We’re kicking it off in Oslo on twenty fourth of September earlier than transferring to Manchester on the sixth of November and the Netherlands in mid November. We’re wanting ahead to giving college students a platform to listen to actual profession tales, ask inquiries to professionals, and join with corporations providing jobs and internships domestically.
June highlights from London & what’s subsequent for the UK & Eire
June was an inspiring month for HSMAI Europe in London. We hosted three impactful conferences, together with 2 Energy-Up periods and the Connecting Future Leaders in London, all full of vitality, recent concepts, and significant connections. It was particularly encouraging to see such robust engagement from each seasoned professionals and rising expertise.
Constructing on this we are actually taking the subsequent step:
We’re within the technique of forming an HSMAI Europe Advisory Board for the UK & Eire. This board will deliver collectively business leaders from throughout the area to information our future actions and guarantee we’re delivering related, high-impact initiatives domestically.
Highlight on MICE on the DACH Area
We’re excited to show extra focus towards the DACH area!
Beginning this 12 months, our key precedence shall be to deliver the HSMAI Europe MICE Workshop to a number of cities throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
This initiative is all about connecting professionals, sharing greatest practices, and serving to the area’s MICE leaders navigate change and seize new alternatives collectively.
We may also increase our advisory board for the DACH area and we even have extra attention-grabbing data to share after the Summer season break.
HSMAI Europe Industrial Technique Week in London
The planning for HSMAI Europe Industrial Technique Week is properly underneath approach and we stay up for seeing a lot of you there on the 14th-Sixteenth of January 2026. We’ll deliver collectively business leaders from throughout gross sales, advertising, income administration, distribution, and tech.
Save the Date: NoVacancy Australia in February
HSMAI Europe may also be current on the NoVacancy Expo on Twenty fifth-Twenty sixth of February 2026. Amongst different issues we shall be organising two panel discussions in the course of the Expo and hope to see a lot of our members within the UK there. This presents one other thrilling alternative to attach and share insights.
We’d additionally like to attract your consideration to some essential articles under on this e-newsletter:
- Episode Two of HSMAI Europe’s Sustainability Podcast Collection Is Dwell!
- Information silos: The unraveling of the lodge visitor journey by Cendyn
- Could 2025: Europe’s main markets will not be the outperformers by MKG Consulting
- April 2025: Easter holidays help European hospitality exercise by MKG Consulting
When you or any of your colleagues are involved in studying extra about how one can turn out to be concerned in one of many native Advisory Boards or simply have questions, please attain out to us at [email protected].
Benefit from the summer time, and I hope to fulfill you quickly! All the very best,
Ingunn Hofseth
President & CEO
HSMAI Europe
About HSMAI Europe
HSMAI – Hospitality Gross sales and Advertising Affiliation Worldwide – is a world organisation based within the US in 1927. HSMAI Area Europe is the European arm of the organisation. HSMAI Europe goals to be a key influencer, pioneer and the go-to business useful resource for skilled improvement, business methods and sustainability within the hospitality, journey and tourism business. With a robust give attention to training, HSMAI has turn out to be the business champion in figuring out and speaking tendencies within the hospitality business whereas working as a number one voice for each hospitality and gross sales, advertising, and income administration disciplines.
