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The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) and the Hotel Electronic Distribution Networking Association (HEDNA) announce a partnership for the mutual benefit of their members and the hospitality industry. The hospitality industry will gain from the combined knowledge and expertise from each organization. The collaboration will elevate HSMAI’s distribution capabilities and expand the educational content and insights shared with their constituents.

Article - HSMAI and HEDNA Collaborate to Broaden Knowledge Resources and Distribution Opportunities - The hospitality industry will gain from the combined knowledge and expertise from each organization. The collaboration will elevate HSMAI’s distribution capabilities and expand the educational content and insights shared with their constituents.

As part of HSMAI’s Commercial Strategy Week in Toronto, HSMAI hosted a roundtable for ownership executives. Through insightful discussions, industry leaders identified five key challenges and shared strategies to navigate through them.

If there is one thing we are seeing in a post pandemic landscape, it is that people are being more selective about the events they go to, and expectations for those events are higher than ever. HSMAI is very proud of the fact that a record number of attendees chose Commercial Strategy Week 2023 in Toronto to be the event to attend. From June 26 to 29, we had nearly 1,000 industry professionals come together to participate in a series of collocated events that included The Marketing Strategy Conf...

Were back from a busy week in Toronto talking all things Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis!

Almost everyone would agree that the pace of technological advances in hospitality has accelerated since the pandemic, when many technology providers were forced to redesign their offerings in response to one of the largest catalysts for change that the world has ever seen. Revenue management tools were quickly re-worked to be forward-looking versus relying on historical trends, and now machine learning is being applied to everything from creating the ideal travel itinerary to cleaning up the co...

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the world’s leading provider of automated revenue management software and services, announced today its corporate sponsorship of the Women in Travel THRIVE. THRIVE is an organization that propels women closer to equality in travel industry careers by providing a community, a network, and tangible resources designed to support womens empowerment.

/PRNewswire/ -- Women in Travel THRIVE, a global movement to increase womens representation in travel industry leadership, announces its first-ever in-person...

The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International’s (HSMAI) Commercial Strategy Week will take place in person in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from June 26-29, 2023. HSMAI’s Commercial Strategy Week is Leading the Way in connecting senior leaders in hotel marketing in meaningful conversations about the most important strategic issues facing the business today and in delivering the most comprehensive revenue optimization event for the hotel industry. The week’s events reflect the c...

We are an industry of hope, resilience, and determination. 2022 encapsulated all those characteristics and was a story of recovery. The rebound exceeded all our expectations. It is with this spirit of renewal and optimism that we present the 2022 HSMAI Annual Report.