Resilient hospitality: The HITT program is ready! – Assets under the crisis spotlight

Dear Insider,

There is far too little of the positive these days, so let's start with something motivating and relaxing: The program for our 8th HITT Think Tank on 26/27 May in Brussels is ready. And the title has been decided too: "Nature's Appeal: Can hospitality be regenerative? Risk, Resilience & Innovation." Yes, this time we are focusing on nature conservation, because preserving biodiversity - the absolute basis for life - is now more important than reducing CO2 emissions. Investors and operators are facing new framework conditions: Projects are increasingly dependent on infrastructure, transportation/mobility and supply. How do nature conservation, project development and tourism growth come together?

On Day 1, our focus on Sustainability, there will be two long discussion rounds with a large circle of experts, including a tourism politician from the EU Commission. Specific names will follow shortly. Our regular guests know: HITT is the ideal environment in which to ask your own questions. The same applies to Day 2, Innovation. We look for the connection between AI and human work, we discuss how much sense and nonsense AI generates and provide comfort with working examples from augmented reality. You can register now still with the Early Bird discount!

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