Ted Teng to open ILHA INSPIRE'18 Summit

Hospitality Experts gather for the 7th annual ILHA Event in Las Vegas

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International Luxury Hotel Association

Sep 27, 2018, 11:54 ET

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Sept. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Luxury Hotel Association's INSPIRE'18 Summit is taking place at the Four Seasons Las Vegas December 13 & 14 and our team is working hard to make it our best conference. Ted Teng, President & CEO, Leading Hotels of the World, will be the opening keynote on Thursday, talking about Looking Back and Looking Forward, a review of the greatest changes in the hospitality industry during his 40-year career and what may be the greatest changes in the next 40-years.

Transforming Wellness: Incorporating Wellness into Guest Experience is the topic our first panel will be discussing bringing up key issues on how health and wellness are playing a big role in the upscale hospitality industry and many properties are being developed with this in mind. Rohit Verma, Dean of External Relations, Cornell SC College of Business will moderate the panel and Tom Klein, President & COO of Canyon Ranch, Terry Schaak, Medical Director & Managing Partner for California Health & Longevity Institute at the Four Seasons Westlake Village, California, and Renee-Marie Stephano, President & Co-Founder of the Medical Tourism Association will ensure a thought-provoking discussion.

Colin Cowie, CEO, Colin Cowie Lifestyle, will be talking about The 'Hospitainment arena', the Crossroads where Hospitality and Entertainment Meet. He will use this new concept to speak on the opportunity to seduce the customer through smart and authentic programming, also touching on the importance of becoming a top-tier event destination as a hotel operator.

The Emcee for the event will be Shane Green, President SGEi and well-known Travel Channel host on Resort Rescue. He will be speaking on The Most Important Culture Hacks Every Hospitality Business and Manager must Address, giving you essential strategies and information you can use to improve guest experience. Company Culture is no longer just about HR and Shane will provide valuable cultural lessons learned on what every hotel owner, manager and executive needs to know to exceed guest expectations.

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About ILHA

The International Luxury Hotel Association (http://www.luxuryhotelassociation.org) is the luxury hospitality's preeminent association promoting, unifying and advancing the industry through insight, opinion, and research.

ILHA reaches an audience of more than 500,000 hotel professionals in 90+ countries.  It also produces LUXURY HOTELIERS Magazine, ILHA SmartBrief and the INSPIRE SUMMITS in Europe and North America. They also run LinkedIn's largest hospitality and travel group which ranks in the top 100 of the more than 10 million professional groups on LinkedIn.

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