NEW YORK (July 7, 2015) ─ The 2015 North America Tourism & Hospitality Investment Conference (NATHIC), to be held Nov. 4-6 at the iconic Fontainebleau Hotel & Resort in Miami Beach, Florida, will address a wide range of issues critical to hotel development, ownership and management including foreign direct investment in North America.

Presented by Questex Hospitality, NATHIC is expected to attract more than 400 hotel owners, investors, developers, operators, lenders, consultants and brand executives, who will additionally gain insights on segment analysis, secondary and tertiary investment markets, management contracts, hotel design, lending, deals and burgeoning Chinese tourism.

Now in its seventh year, the event is moving to Miami Beach for the first time after being previously held in Chicago. NATHIC is part of Questex Hospitality's International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) Summit Series, the world's longest running hotel investment forum, with its flagship annual event in Berlin.

Alexi H. Khajavi, Questex Hospitality executive vice president, said this year's event will offer highly curated opportunities to network "among some of the industry's most influential leaders and senior-level investment professionals in a great new setting, Miami – the gateway into the continent."

"The 2015 NATHIC program will provide the big picture on the hospitality marketplace in North America, including investments in Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean," he said. "Our goal is to bring hotel owners, REITS, capital groups, new-to-market investors and foreign-direct investors together with franchises, lenders, brokers and developers for discussions and deal-making on key investment opportunities in North America."

North America Hotel Investment Conference — Photo by QuestexNorth America Hotel Investment Conference — Photo by Questex
North America Hotel Investment Conference — Photo by Questex

The event will incorporate "curated investment matchmaking, a component no other hospitality investment events address," he added. In addition, a strong educational component will offer insights on market trends from key partners including HVS, a global consultancy specializing in market intelligence, and Lodging Econometrics, a leading lodging industry consulting partner for global real estate intelligence.

For NATHIC sponsorship or speaker opportunities, contact Nick Diligente, Questex hospitality solutions director, at [email protected] or Ben Isenberg, vice president, global strategy, at [email protected]. For more information on the North America Hotel Investment Conference, visit www.nathic.com.

About Questex Hospitality + Travel

Questex LLC, headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, with offices worldwide, is the largest multimedia organization in the world dedicated to travel and lodging. Questex drives revenue, productivity and value-creation for these related industries through strategic investment and deal-making forums, powerful lead-generation tools, interactive online business solutions, world-class events and industry-leading publications: Hotel Management and Hotel Design, and their online sites, hotelmanagement.net and hoteldesignmagazine.com.

Questex Hospitality Group, a division of Questex LLC, operates a variety of market-leading events throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific region, including the I nternational Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) Summit Series: the International Hotel Investment Forum, held annually in Berlin; North America Tourism & Hospitality Investment Conference (NATHIC); Mediterranean Resort & Hotel Real Estate Forum in Madrid (MR&H); Russia & CIS Hotel Investment Conference (RHIC); Turkey & Neighbours Hotel Investment Conference (CATHIC); and Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference (APHIC).

In addition, Questex Hospitality Group meets the needs of the hospitality design community through its HOTEC Design North America, HOTEC Operations & Technology North America, HOTEC Europe, HOTEC Asia and HOTEC Middle East one-to-one events and HSMAI's MEET series of events, managed under a strategic alliance with Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI).

Evy Apostolatos
Vice President
Questex

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