This year’s Summit & Trade Show on July 20-23, 2005 \uffa0will be held at the Royal Palm Crowne Plaza Resort on South Beach, Florida. The 422 room, 80 million dollar hotel`s construction was pivotal in a 20-point plan, drafted and agreed upon by activists, city officials and lodging executives that ended the Black tourism boycott of Miami in 1993. It represents a new era in the $545 billion U.S. travel industry and direction of the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators & Developers (NABHOOD) whose mission is to increase the number of African American owned hotels, breaking the glass ceiling in the executive suite and increasing minority suppliers to the industry. <\/P><\/p>\n
The theme this year is “Working Together, Changing The Industry”.<\/P><\/p>\n
The Summit is designed to educate attendees on how to market to minorities; develop hotel partnerships; explore ownership & franchise opportunities; share minority travel trends and look at diversity issues affecting the industry. <\/P><\/p>\n
General Sessions, workshops and seminars will spark discussion on multicultural tourism, employment, marketing, supplier opportunities, financing and African American hotel development & ownership. The summit opens with a Golf Tournament on Wednesday morning, followed by our new Minority Hotel Owners Training Program, committee meetings and Opening Tropical Reception in the evening. General Sessions & workshops will be held Thursday through Saturday, the Trade Show on Thursday, Nabhood Corporate Suite appointments on Friday and a College & Career Fair with our Youth Program will take place on Saturday. The summit continues to attract national leaders and top level hospitality industry representatives including: <\/P><\/p>\n
\n-Fred Kleisner, Chairman, Wyndham Intl.;
\n-Prime Minister of The Bahamas Perry Christie;
\n-Minister of Tourism of The Bahamas Obie Wilchombe;
\n-Reverend Al Sharpton;
\n-Chief Minister of Turks & Caicos Michael Misick;
\n-Deputy Chief Minister of Finance of Turks & Caicos Floyd Hall;
\n-Director of Tourism of Turks & Caicos Lindsey Musgrove;
\n-Floyd Pitts, Senior Director of Diversity Programs, Hilton Hotels Corp. and NABHOOD Corporate Sponsor;
\n-Nash Patel, Chairman, Asian American Hotel Owners Assoc. (AAHOA);
\n-Brown Kessler, VP Franchise Sales & Development, InterContinental Hotels Group;
\n-Solomon Herbert, Publisher of Black Meetings & Tourism Magazine;
\n-Peggy Riley, Director Multicultural Affairs of Louisville CVB;
\n-Nicole Johnson-Reese, V.P. Diversity & Community Involvement of Cendant Corporation;
\n-Norman Jenkins, Sr. V.P. North American Lodging Development of Marriott Int`l. and
\n-Chase Burritt, Director, E&Y Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group.
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\nMany of these professionals will lead a number of workshops and seminars including “ABC`s of Hotel Development & Ownership” and “Where To Find Money To Build A Hotel”. You can use the Nabhood Corporate Suite for your one on one appointment or to make a deal. Last year, three deals were done. <\/P><\/p>\n
Invited guests include
\n-Lt. Governor of Maryland Michael S. Steele;
\n-Don Barden, African American Casino Owner;
\n-Ernest Wooden Jr., Sr. V. P. of Hilton Hotels Corp;
\n-Michael Roberts, owner of Roberts Wyndham Mayfair in St. Louis & NABHOOD Chairman;
\n-Jay Patel, franchise expert & NABHOOD Board Member;
\n-Richard Lee Snow, Exec. Dir. of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity & Chairman of NCBMP;
\n-Lawrence Dupree, Chairman of CL Financial & Developer of W Hotel Residence on Fort Lauderdale Beach;
\n-Leslie Doggett, President\/CEO of Baltimore CVB;
\n-George Grace, Grand Basileus of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity;
\n-Julian Bond, Chairman of NAACP and others.
\nThe summit will be attended by many African American entrepreneurs, professional athletes, sports agents, hotel executives, public\/private representatives and financial experts. You will hear from
\n-Kirk Sykes who developed a 175-room Hampton Inn & Suites, 650-car garage & retail space in Boston and
\n-Tom Baltimore, President of RLJ Development, partnering with William Fuller, former New York Giants football player turned hotel developer, on a Norfolk hotel project.
\n-You will meet James Guillory who just built his first 64 room Hampton Inn and
\n-Bruce Watts, Sr. Business Development Manager of Norfolk, VA on how cities are playing a role in making it possible for African Americans to become hotel developers through public\/private partnerships.<\/p>\n
National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators & Developers
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