Please mark your calendar for upcoming meetings and events every 4th Monday each month, unless otherwise indicated due to holidays or competing industry events.
Thursday, January 10
Claremont Resort & Spa
41 Tunnel Rd.
Berkeley, CA 94705
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Evening
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Installation/Holiday Reception Social
Celebrate 2007 and meet the new Board. Sponsored by Orbitz Worldwide. Attendees are eligible to win two round-trip tickets in the continental U.S. courtesy of Northwest Airlines and Orbitz Worldwide – Event Completed! |
Monday, January 28
Holiday Inn San Jose
1740 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95112
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Luncheon |
Internet Marketing Panel "Revving Up The Engines on E-Commerce and Internet Marketing." Panelist include: Stacey Meyer, Senior Marketing Manager, Orbitz Lisa Demoney, Director of Online Marketing, Joie de Vivre Hospitality and Tammie Carlisle. Regional Business Development Manager, Milestone Internet Marketing. Event Completed! |
Monday, February 25
Fog Harbor Fish House Restaurant
Pier 39 #A-202
San Francisco, California 94133 |
Luncheon |
"Managing - 6 Ways to Be Your Sales Team's MVP." Our speaker, John E. Koon, Principal and Founder of JEK Consulting will present. Learn innovative ways to help increase your team's sales in 2008. Event Completed! |
Monday, March 24
Doubletree Hotel San Francisco Airport
835 Airport Blvd.
Burlingame, CA 94404 |
Luncheon |
Leisure Travel Update - Our panel of speakers will be Deborah Reinow, Vice President Tourism for the SFCVB and Nancy Kaye Swanson an independent marketing consultant to AAA Club Magazines. Event Completed! |
Monday, April 28
The PruneYard Inn
1995 South Bascom Ave.
Campbell, CA 95008 |
Luncheon |
Selling Rooms Smarter – Navigating the Revenue Management Roadmap" Learn from a panel of revenue management experts why the business of revenue management is so important to your hotel’s profitability and sales success. Event Completed! |
Monday, May 19
Bently Reserve
301 Battery St
San Francisco 94111 |
Luncheon |
RFP Season – A Guide to Survival" Join your hospitality peers for a valuable panel discussion on understanding and succeeding in the RFP process. Event Completed! |
Monday, June 23
Trader Vic’s at
Dinah’s Garden Hotel
4269 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306 |
Evening |
Join us on the evening of Monday, June 23 and mingle with friends while you enjoy tropical hors d'oeuvres and exotic drinks at Trader Vic's at Dinah's Garden Hotel in Palo Alto at our first annual Social and Silent Auction. Event Completed! |
Monday, August 25
Sheraton Gateway Hotel, SFO
600 Airport Boulevard
Burlingame, CA 94010
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Luncheon |
HSMAI-NC - "Tourism - Update and Tools You Can Use to Drive Business" 8/25/08 - Promoting the Golden State – What It Means to You. California is currently the number one travel destination in the country. That hasn’t happened by accident. It’s happened through the amazing efforts of the California Travel and Tourism Commission (CTTC). Event Completed. |
Monday, September 22
Hilton San Francisco
Financial District
750 Kearney St.
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 433-6600 |
Luncheon |
Starting to work on your 2009 Marketing Plan and budget? It’s a challenging year to predict. Need data, advice, forecasts, and stats? Here you are! Take a look at the Bay Area business and hospitality industry landscape. Learn where they are headed from two of the top experts in the field. Please join us as we learn from industry leaders about key insights, facts, figures, and trends important to Bay Area hoteliers. This very popular program will cover Bay Area business forecasts and top-line hospitality industry forecasting for 2009.
Event Completed |
Monday, October 27
Network Meeting Center
At TECHMART
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Luncheon |
"Horror Stories from the Meeting Crypt" A spirited panel of Bay Area meeting planning professionals will scare you to the bone with morbid tales of meetings gone awry…..OK, we admit that’s a little over the top. In reality, our panel of seasoned professionals representing corporate, non-profit, association and third-party segments will share some meeting horror stories. But more importantly, they’ll impart their wisdom on us to help us do a better job of securing and servicing meeting business. Event Completed! |
Monday, November 17
Marriott Oakland City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607 |
Luncheon |
HSMAI-NC - "Staying on the Right Side of the Law” The Board of Directors of the Northern California Chapter of HSMAI invites you to join them for a luncheon program on Monday, November 17, 2008 at the Oakland Marriott City Center. This is a must-attend event for all General Managers, Directors of Sales and Marketing, Revenue Managers, Hotel Owners, Tourism Industry Managers, Bureaus and other travel organizations and professionals.
The legal issues involved in selling for and running a hospitality operation can be overwhelming. Our November presentation offers hotel and venue ownership, sales, revenue, and management staff an easy-to-understand look at potential legal challenges you may encounter and pitfalls you should avoid. Learn from a noted hospitality industry legal authority, James Abrams, President & CEO of the California Hotel and Lodging Association (CH&LA) at this engaging and informative program.
Key topics to be covered include:
• Key legal issues/basic legal principles governing hospitality operations
• Recent court cases affecting the hospitality industry
• Insights into the legal provisions that affect event contracts (i.e. - cancellation and attrition clauses, service and speaker contracts, negligent conduct, etc.)
Register by Friday, November 14th for early pricing. Parking available in the Convention Center Garage adjacent to the Marriott. Ride BART and exit at the 12th Street Oakland City Center and leave your car at home. Click here for additional information and to register! |
