Christie + Co to act as Content Partner for 10th Profit Hotel Forum

On the 2nd of December 2015 key players in Poland’s hotel industry meet up at the “Profit Hotel” conference at the Sheraton Warsaw Hotel, it will be the 10th anniversary for the forum focused on the hotel business in Poland. Christie + Co, who also acts as a content partner to the event, will be represented by Adam Konieczny, Country Head Poland.

Konieczny comments: “Similarly to the Spotlight Hotel Investment Poland conference which Christie + Co co-organises, Profit Hotel has established itself as a key event for both hotel operators and investors and has helped to shape Poland’s world of hotels significantly. Given the impact on the marketplace we are delighted to have developed this affiliation with such a valuable partner to our core business.”  

Konieczny will moderate a panel of industry leaders on the topic ‘Where is the hotel market headed – development perspectives, trends and guests”, discussing the development of the different market segments, promising investment decisions, the position of independent hotels in the market, new trends in hospitality,  as well as how to attract guests and how guest expectations have changed. The panellists include Jakub Klimczak, Business Development Manager at STR Global, Gheorghe Marian Cristescu, Director Poland and Baltic States at Best Western, Ireneusz Węgłowski, Vice President of the Board at Orbis, Małgorzata Dybaś, Managing Director Poland at Hotels Asset Management, Witold Ignatowski, General Director and Chairman of the board at Hotele DeSilva, Magdalena Sekutowska, Development Director Eastern Europe and Poland at Hilton Worldwide and Janusz Mitulski, Director Central & Eastern Europe, International Hotel Development at Marriott International. 

Other panels cover chiefly operational issues such as how to make hotels more profitable and which mistakes are to be avoided by independent hotel operators in order to be successful. Best practice examples of successful hotels will be presented and there will be an award ceremony for the winners of the Profit Hotel Awards.