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Winners From Twelve Categories were Honored at the First Ever
HSMAI European Travel Marketer Awards 2011


June 2011 - HSMAI Europe is delighted to announce the twelve category winners from May's HSMAI European Travel Marketer Awards 2011 at the prestigious Hilton Park Lane . With the awards in its first year, the HSMAI European Travel Marketer Awards 2011 recognises both leading experts and industry professionals for their exemplary work within the hospitality sector and the up‐and‐coming talents of the young professionals bringing an innovative and fresh approach to an fast‐growing industry.

HSMAI European Travel Marketer Awards – 2011

Winners Top Ten Extraordinary Minds in the Hospitality and Travel Industry

 

Bjørn Kjos, CEO, Norwegian Air Shuttle

Gerard Greene, CEO, Yotel

Grace Leo, President, GLA Hotels

José A. Tazón, Chairman, Amadeus

Kurt Ritter, President, The Rezidor Group

Tamara Heber‐Percy, CTO, Mr. & Mrs. Smith

 

 

Michael Levie, Founding Partner and CEO, citizenM hotels

Petter Stordalen, Chairman and Owner, Nordic Choice Hotels

Richard Branson, Chairman, Virgin Group

Stelios Haji‐Ioannou, Founder, EasyJet

 

Young European Travel Industry Leader

Wilhelm Konrad Weber, Swiss Hospitality Solutions

Young European Hotelier of the Year

Aimone dal Pozzo, Castello dal Pozzo

TV Advert of the Year

Visit Iceland

Environment Award

Ritz‐Carlton, Powerscourt

PR Campaign of the Year

Discover Ireland

Printed Advert of the Year

Hurtigruten

Event of the Year

Nordic Choice Hotels

Educator of the Year

Prof. Peter O’Connor, ESSEC Business School

High Achieving Performance Enhancer of the Year

Young N. Nguyen, d2o

High Achieving Hotelier of the Year

Christophe Mendjel, Hotel Secret de Paris

HSMAI European Travel Marketer of the Year

Nordic Choice Hotels


The Young European Travel Industry Leader award went to Wilhelm Konrad Weber, Partner in Swiss Hospitality Solutions for his continued dedication and innovation to ensure he remains at the top of the hospitality industry. With his reputation as a dynamic developer of the revenue management discipline, Wilhelm will be able to attend a special business course that the London Business School. Likewise, the award for Young European Hotelier of the Year was given to Aimone dal Pozzo, Owner & CEO of Castello dal Pozzo who will be sent to study on a course at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration in New York for his achievement in developing his family business from a location for weddings and gala dinners to a five star luxury hotel.

Nordic Choice Hotels celebrated wins in the Travel Marketer of the Year and Event of the Year categories, whilst Petter Stordalen, Chairman and Owner of Nordic Choice Hotels was honoured for his vision and dedication despite his humble beginnings as a strawberry picker, to become one of the prestigious Top Ten Extraordinary Minds in the Hospitality and Travel Industry.

Ingunn Hofseth, President and CEO of HSMAI Europe, commented:
“Our first ever HSMAI European Travel Marketer Awards was a fantastic success. All the talented nominees and winners from last night are proof of what an exciting industry the hotel and travel sector is to work in, and we congratulate them all on the innovative work they are doing.”

About HSMAI Europe HSMAI ‐ Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International ‐ is a global organization founded in the US in 1927. HSMAI Europe is the European arm of the membership association. The association provides a forum where professionals within sales, marketing and leadership from the hospitality and travel industry meet for knowledge, inspiration, recognition and professional development, and where they can involve themselves through meeting with leaders, professionals and customers from across Europe. For more information, see www.hsmai.eu

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