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MICHAEL TCHONG - TREND ANALYST - UBERCOOL
 Michael Tchong has spent more than two decades living at the bleeding edge of consumer trends. His intuitive sense for reading the future has earned him a reputation as one of the savviest thinkers of the information age.
A serial entrepreneur, Michael developed a host of successful media and technology companies to help consumers and businesses harness the potential of new innovations. His successes include founding MacWEEK, CyberAtlas, ICONOCAST and Ubercool, a next-generation social-engagement marketing company aimed at trendsetters.
Michael tracks consumer lifestyles with boundless energy, translating trends into emerging opportunities. He maintains a blog at Ubercool.com, and is currently working on his sixth start-up, which will help reinvent the marketing and media worlds.
Michael’s a global citizen who surveys the landscape from San Francisco’s Potrero Hill district. A sought-after speaker, he has been quoted by, or appeared on, such leading media as Access Hollywood, BBC News, Bloomberg TV, Business Week, CNET, the UK’s Independent, The New York Times, Variety, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Wired.
Michael Tchong's website is www.ubercool.com.
CURACAO CHAPTER RECEIVES 2 AWARDS AT ANNUAL HSMAI LEADERSHIP
Colorado Springs, March 27, 2008: HSMAI Curaçao Chapter board represented by Director Steven Damiana and President Tamira La Cruz were awarded with the best Small Chapter in the category of websites as well as the category of partnerships. Leaders all over the world were able to echo the name of Curacao receiving these awards during the Annual HSMAI International Leadership conference March 25-2,2008 entitled “ Reaching higher grounds: Exploring new heights” that saw over 170 leaders from all over the US as well as Caribbean, Central America and South Asia Pacific.
More than 170 top industry leaders of the 25 different chapters present were able to accept the different winners in the categories which were all judged by other international chapters. Besides the 2 awards, Curacao won also the special honored prize of chapter with the highest rate of retention in the whole of HSMAI International chapters all over the world. The chapter of the year resulted to be the HSMAI Mid South Chapter ( cities such as Memphis, etc.).
The Annual Leadership meeting had meetings for the different chapter Managing Directors and conducted several workshops, trainings and presentations on how to work in a team, characteristics of leaders, energy management for hospitality leaders, motivation of volunteers and culminated in a formidable Chinese Auction which funds will go to the HSMAI Foundation. From Curacao, Superclubs Breezes Curacao donated an impressive prize, followed by Floris Suite Hotel and destination management company Explore Curacao.
CURACAO UNDER CONSTRUCTION TOUR April 3, 2008
In order to raise funds for the HSMAI* Curacao Chapter, the organisation will be arranging a "Curacao Under Construction Tour" on Thursday April 3 2008.
This bus tour will take those interested on an informative tour along Curacao's most interesting and promising new properties, which are due to open in 2008 and 2009... More Information
HSMAI Curacao visits HSMAI Holland Chapter January 2008
On January 9th, 2008 HSMAI Curacao/ CHATA MD visited the head office of the HSMAI Holland Chapter in Hoofddorp, Holland. Steven Damiana met with Managing Director of the Holland Chapter Mr. Hans Poortvliet and his team who gave general information and a tour of the HSMAI Holland Chapter and HSMAI University...
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Hsmai curacao chapter will be honored with a silver award
NEW YORK, NY (DECEMBER 3, 2007) – The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) will recognize HSMAI CURACAO CHAPTER with a Silver Award for web marketing namely the website www.hsmaicuracao.org designed by Dragonfly Media for its winning entry in the annual Adrian Awards Competition.
HSMAI will pay tribute to HSMAI CURACAO CHAPTER during the 18th annual HSMAI Adrian Awards Show – a gala black-tie dinner to be held on Jan. 28, 2008 at the New York Marriott Marquis, with an expected attendance by 1,000 hospitality, travel and tourism industry and marketing executives.
These awards are handed out as part of the 2007 HSMAI Adrian Awards Competition, the largest and most prestigious travel event of its kind in the world, now in its 51st year. This year’s contest attracted nearly 1,300 entries from around the world, with entries judged by teams of experts from all sectors of the industry.
Winners will be honored on Jan. 28, 2008 at the New York Marriott Marquis during the 18th Annual Adrian Awards Gala, a multifaceted, black-tie networking extravaganza celebrating award-winning work, lifetime achievement, and the “Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing.” Visit www.AdrianAwards.com or www.hsmaicuracao.org for more information.
Tickets are $325 per seat before Jan. 14, 2008 with a table of 10 costing $3,250. After Jan. 14 tickets will cost $350 per seat. Discounted hotel rates at the Marriott Marquis are available at $279 per night by calling the hotel at 212-398-1900 and referencing the HSMAI Adrian Awards Gala. Visit www.AdrianAwards.com for more information on tickets/table purchases. Adrian Awards benefactor partners are DEPARTURES Magazine, TravelCLICK, and Yahoo!
HSMAI
HSMAI is an organization of sales and marketing professionals representing all segments of the hospitality industry. With a strong focus on education, HSMAI has become the industry champion in identifying and communicating trends in the hospitality industry, and bringing together customers and members at annual events, including HSMAI’s Affordable Meetings®. Founded in 1927, HSMAI is an individual membership organization comprising more than 7,000 members worldwide, with 39 chapters in the Americas Region.
Mrs.
Fatima de Windt - Ferreira. "An Outlook Caribbean
Tourism" Role:
Industry leader for the hospitality market and funds industry at Ernst
& Young Curacao.
Background: Fatima de Windt-Ferreira (37) is an Audit
and Advisory Business Services partner of Ernst & Young Netherlands
Antilles and is based in Curacao. She has 15 years of experience in
public accounting and works primarily in the (offshore) mutual/hedge
funds industry and the hospitality industry. Fatima is a graduate
of the University of the Netherlands Antilles, with a major in accounting.
She obtained her license to practice as a certified public accountant
in Atlanta, U.S.A. Fatima is the treasurer of the Youth Fund Netherlands
Antilles, a non-profit organization aimed at the development and welfare
of the Antillean Youth.
On March 22 many members attended the seminar of
Greg Hoyos
"How to improve: Listen better for what they aren't
saying... Market Research "
Greg Hoyos started his first Caribbean advertising agency in 1970
with regional clients including Colgate-Palmolive and Barclays Bank.
Creatively, he has won five CLIO awards, including gold statuettes
for Barclays Bank and others. In 1981 he published a book on marketing
in the Caribbean, “Marketing and Demand”, later used in
University of the West Indies Management courses, and hailed by UWI
Professor Stan Reid as the “best book ever on Caribbean marketing”.
In 1982 he relocated to Sydney, Australia and spent the next eight
years as a Director of Leo Burnett, then DDB Worldwide, where he was
also national new-business director of DDB up to his departure in
1990.
In Australia, he wrote a popular marketing column for the national
advertising-and-media newspaper B&T Weekly, and in a 1987 poll
of senior clients conducted by the Australian Financial Review, he
was voted 4th of the Top 10 “Outstanding Advertising Personalities
in Australia” (the only non-Aussie to make the list).
On his return to the Caribbean he re-established a regional agency,
soon linked into the Omnicom Group, and now representing DDB Worldwide,
BBDO and media giant OMD in all the English, French and Dutch countries
throughout the region. Clients include Exxon Mobil, FedEx, FirstCaribbean
Bank, McDonald’s and Nokia.
He is a regional marketing columnist and is currently writing a second
book on Caribbean marketing.
On February
28 many members of the Curacao Chapter attended the highly motivating
seminar of John Fareed of Fareed and Zapala Marketing Partners
John Fareed, CHME, ISHC Partner
Fareed and Zapala Marketing Partners
John Fareed is one of those rare individuals whose flashes of insight
and imagination are changing the way hoteliers see the world of marketing,
speaking on the topic at industry events in Brazil, France, Germany,
Ireland, Italy, Egypt, Mexico, and across the US, Canada and the Caribbean.
He has appeared as an industry expert on national television programs
including CNN and Fox News Network, in publications such as USA Today,
New York Times, and Washington Post, and has had articles published
in Hotel & Motel Management, Hotels, HSMAI’s Marketing Review,
Meeting Professional, and on Hotel Interactive. Fareed currently serves
on the Board of Directors for the HSMAI Foundation, and is a member
of the American Advertising Federation, American Hotel & Lodging
Association, Association of Travel Marketing Executives, Caribbean
Hotel Association, and the International Society of Hospitality Consultants.
Fareed recently completed DIT’s Masters of Science in Hospitality
Management Program in Dublin, Ireland and expects to graduate with
honors in November.
Prospecting, Profiling, and Profiting – Relationship
Selling In The 21st Century”
Overview:
In this important and timely session, John Fareed will demonstrate
the importance and methodologies necessary for successful relationship
selling. You will learn how to properly identify, profile, and build
relationships with the market segments that are most likely going
to give you and your individual property consistent business at higher
rates. It’s about selling more rooms, to more people, more often,
for more money.
Topics included in this session include:
• Defining the perfect prospect
• Identifying and analyzing available markets
• Profiling versus cold-calling
• Developing the ‘natural’
relationship
• Providing solutions: The ‘not’
selling proposition
• Redefining traditional measurement vehicles and timelines
This session will give you the means and power to step away from ‘cold
call quotas’ and ‘data base diving’, and enter the
world of true ‘long-term’, ‘solutions-based’
business development.
Program Length(s):
1 hour and 1/2 day programs available.
HSMAI Curacao Chapter launches website
On Thursday January 18 2007 the Curacao Chapter launched its website.
The website provides information about the first Caribbean Chapter, Member benefits, Board of Directors, E-Connect (information and research about hospitality industry sales and marketing topics), HSMAI's organization and industry news.
First Curacao Chapter event
On Thursday January 18 2007, the Curacao Chapter held its first
Chapter Event.
The venue took place at the Breezes Hotel and topics included 'Get more customers using Search Engine Optimization', 'Web site Best Practices', 'Benefits of e-mail marketing', and 'Integrating Digital and Print Marketing'. The presentation was done by Sport Diver and Islands Magazine.
HSMAI Curacao Chapter established
HSMAI Curacao was proudly launched on August 29th, 2006 as the first
Caribbean Chapter of the HSMAI.
For individuals involved in the hospitality industry, HSMAI is dedicated
to help improve them both professionally and personally. HSMAI is
a global organization of sales and marketing professionals representing
all segments of the hospitality industry. With a strong focus on education,
HSMAI has become the industry champion in identifying and communicating
trends in the hospitality industry while operating as a leading voice
for both hospitality and sales and marketing management disciplines,
as well as connecting its members with customers.
Founded in 1927, HSMAI is an individual membership organization comprised of nearly 7,000 members from 35 countries and chapters worldwide. HSMAI’s Americas Region, headquartered in McLean, VA, consists of 38 chapters in three countries. HSMAI's European Region, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, consists of five national chapters in Europe. The Asia Pacific Region is under development. The HSMAI Foundation was established in 1983 to serve as the research and educational arm of HSMAI.
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