Hotels Tomorrow 2025

Europe – The Region of Risks & Rewards
Breaking the Rules of Tradition

Day
1
30 June, 2025
9:00 am

Bonjour!

Autour d’un café et d’un croissant.

Setting the Scene

10:00 am

Welcome to Hotels Tomorrow.

The birth of HOT. Housekeeping & Logistics.

11:15 am

Window to Politics and Tourism. Entrepreneurs, Investors and Hospitality Leaders connect with EU Representatives.

EU Politics on Tourism meet Hotel Industry Entrepreneurs. Let's remove prejudices and translate politics to economy and business models. Directly, first-hand with the decision-makers in the EU, in tourism and hospitality together with the entrepreneurs that make it happen. Legislation or Collaboration? What drives responsible tourism?

Dr NIKOLINA BRNJAC, Member of the European Parliament and former Minister of Tourism Croatia

SUSANNE KRAUS-WINKLER, former State Secretary of Tourism Austria, Entrepreneur and Hotelière



The Pan-European Path to Rewards

2:30 pm

Future Travel Flows – Developers’ Blueprint for Successful Growth  

CHRISTOPHE RAMACIOTTI, Director of Business Development - Hospitality Segment, ForwardKeys ‍

3:00 pm

Where does the Money flow to and Who is making Financial Gains?

The Inaugural Pan-European Market Scan – a HOT Trademark for Entry and Exit Hotspots

5:00 pm

Buildings to fail? The conduct of hotel business will change.

With building disasters in hotels in many countries, concerns about the physical integrity of buildings have never been higher. In future, hotel properties and operations will have to undergo a technical Due Diligence every five years. This would have far-reaching consequences.

PAUL SLATTERY, Director, Otus & Co

5:30 pm

Wrap up

Au revoir et à demain!

7:00 pm

Let's unite!
The HOT Evening Get-Together

Get-Together for drinks and French Cuisine

Day
2
1 July, 2025

Stories of Risks & Rewards

Scouting the Risks

10:00 am

The Heat Map of Travel as a Surgical-Precision Marketing Tool.

Which developments will shape Europe’s infrastructure, mobility, purchasing power, touristic projects and travel flow in the next years?

10:30 am

Investing for Future Rewards

11:00 am

Where Can I spend my Money, Honey? Investment, Development & (alternative) Financing.

Where the money comes from, where it goes, and how it is spent wisely.

PUNEET CHHATWAL
, Managing Director & CEO, Indian Hotels Company Ltd (Taj Hotels)‍,
Dr OTMAR MICHAELER, CEO, FMTG/Falkensteiner Michaeler Tourism Group

12:30 pm

Which Businesses will Survive?

Big investors, small groups, M&As and consolidation: What will clean the markets? Is M&A the Development Mantra for 2025?

On the Motel One/PAI Deal
Stefan Lenze,  Co-CEO, Motel One

On the IHG/Ruby deal
PATRICK FUNK, VP Capital Investments & Transactions, IHG Hotels & Resorts
FABIAN ZELLINGER, Chief Growth & Innovation Officer, Ruby Group

4:00 pm

The Art of Making the Deal:
Risks and Rewards.

Deal makers speak about the latest asset and brand transactions

5:30 pm

Wrap up Day 2

Au revoir et à bientôt!

The program is subject to change and will be permanently updated!