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Major Hospitality Associations Announce Endorsement for HITEC 2023 in Toronto
Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) | August 30, 2022
The associations together represent more than 50,000 members,60 percent of hotels and 2,500 clubs in America. HITEC Toronto will be June 26-29, 2023. 30 August 2022 Photo: HFTP Following up on the success and broad support of the 2022 Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC®), preparations are underway for Toronto where the hospitality technology event will be held on June 26–29, 2023 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Produced by Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®), HITEC is the largest and oldest nonprofit event of its kind hosting 300+ exhibiting companies an...
HFTP Celebrates the Upcoming 75th Anniversary of ICHRIE
HFTP | July 28, 2022
The association supports the upcoming hospitality and tourism educators’ event, August 3–6 in Washington, D.C., providing the latest on global hospitality finance and technology. Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) is pleased to support the upcoming International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) Annual Summer Conference as its 75th Anniversary sponsor. The established event offers varied programming, including educational presentations on research and other academic-focused sessions, association business meetings, networking events and concluding with a Celebration Dinner and ...
AHLA, AHLAF, ICHRIE Announce Partnership to Grow Workforce
The International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) | June 16, 2022
WASHINGTON (June 16, 2022) –The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), the AHLA Foundation, and the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) today announced a new strategic partnership, with the shared goal of growing the future workforce of the hotel and hospitality industry. The announcement comes at a critical time for the hotel industry. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in May 2022 employment in the broader leisure and hospitality industry was down more than 1.3 million jobs compared to before the pandemic. Hotels are looking to fill many of those jobs. In a May 2022...
ICHRIE Announces New Executive Director
The International Council on Hotel and Restaurant and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) | June 7, 2021
Richmond, VA - June 7, 2021 - The International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) has announced the association’s new Executive Director. Fran Brasseux, CHSE, CHBA, CTTA, will assume the top leadership role for the organization effective June 16. Brasseux joins the ICHRIE organization with a depth and wealth of knowledge and experience in both the hospitality and tourism industry as well as association leadership. In the first chapter of her career, she worked extensively in the areas of conference planning and then hotel sales. Thereafter, she moved into the next chapter, where she was employed by ...
The 2017 Cornell/ICHRIE Howard B. Meek Award Presented to Dr. Fred DeMicco
September 27, 2017
September, 25, 2017 - Volterra Tuscany, Italy - Dr. Frederico J. DeMicco, the Aramark Chaired Professor at the University of Delaware and President of Academics and Dean of Executive and Continuing Education at the Learning Village in Tuscany SIAF Campus was awarded the The Howard B. Meek Award for 2017. This award bestowed is the highest individual recognition a member of the International Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) may receive. It is presented to an ICHRIE member in recognition of the individual's lifetime contributions and outstanding service both to hospitality education and to Internationa...
