The schedule of content, in partnership with NEWH, has been curated with a unique focus on the South and LATAM region’s hotel, resort, and private island destination market. Take a look at the full program and speaker line-up below.
Thursday 6 June
GMBHA Lunch & Learn
Join GMBHA and IHG Hotels & Resorts at this Q&A-cross-networking event! This session is designed to provide you with insider knowledge on procurement processes and what goes into a successful renovation project at IHG. As well as giving you the opportunity to pose important questions to industry buyers and connect you with your peers in the local and regional hospitality community.
Location: HRDS Lounge
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Horizon Watch: Developments & trends in tomorrow’s designs and destinations
- Responding to current trends across southern states, Caribbean, and LATAM: What’s the new cool?
- Which destinations do the next generation want to visit?
- What’s the storytelling to attract people to these remote destinations?
- Developments in the eco-tourism market, and how does this impact interiors?
- What are the success factors for expanding portfolios in city/urban settings?
- Tackling supply chain challenges – availability, reliability, relationships
- Design processes & project spotlights: Success factors
Location: HRDS Lounge
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Spotlight on the Caribbean
- Overview of projects in the Caribbean
- Private islands: developing destinations & upscale products
- Supply chain & design challenges
- What have been the success factors for projects in the region?
- Building strong community relationships, attracting local talent
- Commonalities and contrasting challenges across different islands in the region, including the Galapagos Islands
- Can “All Inclusive” be luxury?
Location: HRDS Lounge
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Friday 7 June
Sustainable Design Summit: Working Group Breakfast
Sustainable Design Summit breakout sessions come to Miami! During this in-person Working Group, suppliers and buyers will have the opportunity to participate in a hands-on workshop covering key topics and challenges facing those working within the hospitality travel interiors sectors.
Refurbishments: A circularity state of mind
- Developing a circularity mindset – how to embed responsible thinking and values?
- From product life cycle to the sustainability ecosystem: what are the tools, tactics and partnerships which promote full circularity?
- Simple approaches to lifetime extension of products in hospitality interiors
- How does circularity fit with the business case in the context of refurbishments?
- What does the re-manufacturing flowchart look like: case studies & examples
Places at this roundtable session and networking breakfast are now full. Join the waitlist.
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Lifestyle goes corporate – is it an oxymoron?
- How organically have boutique/ independent hotels moved into the mainstream? Or has this trend chiefly been driven by acquisitions?
- Using design to attract guests who are looking for more than cookie-cutter replications: injecting the quirky into lifestyle hotels
- Delivering lifestyle interiors through guest experience
- Lifestyle hotels – bringing local communities to life
Location: HRDS Lounge
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Next-gen hospitality: Trends reshaping guest lifestyles
Horizon watch – what will be the next trends for guest lifestyle? Will sustainable travel considerations remain a priority? What will be the lifestyle of tomorrow’s rich? What will they want to spend money on as they live for longer? How can we as designers provide the guest experience/lifestyle they want to align with? How will attitudes to travel and exploration develop? What will be the next prevailing attitude towards health, fitness and self care? And where are the opportunities for cruise interiors?
- How are Gen Z spending behaviours different from the Boomers? How are their lifestyles and decision-making different?
- Gen Z has different patterns of spending – they have more disposable income, are not tied by a mortgage or job - so can travel. They are entering their careers as remote workers. How to blend leisure with careers?
- What is considered a guest experience by Gen Z…/ other generations?
- How are behaviours changing – not just new behaviours of younger people, but older people’s behaviours have changed too over the past 10 years
- Tracking behaviours: how have multi-generational family holidays evolved?
- How is solo travel changing? E.g. remote workers with a laptop
- We can’t design one vessel or one hotel for just one generation. How to manage differing expectations?
Location: HRDS Lounge
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NEWH Lunch & Learn
This panel discussion-cross-networking event is designed to share insider knowledge on the challenges and successes of designing at appropriate budget level, insight into decision-making processes for ultra-luxurious and lifestyle brands, and more. As well as providing an opportunity to connect with the local and regional hospitality design community during the networking lunch that follows the content.
Location: HRDS Lounge