What a wonderful outcome for our first event of the year, organised by the Cornell Hotel Society France Chapter, in partnership with AAIMHI - IMHI Alumni Association and ESSEC Alumni Club Travel.

✨ During our discussion "The French hospitality landscape past, present, future?" - we were able to discuss with Willemijn Geels ,from IHG Hotels & Resorts, Laura BEN-IBGUI from JLL France, Gabriel MATAR from SENTINEL HOSPITALITY and Philippe Rossini from SwissLife Asset Managers France about the French hospitality market.

🙌 Thank you to Adrien Lanotte from MKG Consulting for the quick and pertinent overview that created the perfect starting point of our discussion.

Some key insights: 

Change in RevPar France 2023 vs 2022 +14% (vs 2019 +22%)

Change in Purchases/Inflation France 2023 vs 2019 +14,9%

Change in Staff Costs Q3 2023 vs 2019 +12,4%

(Do you want to hear more? Let us know at info@aaimhi.com)

🙌 We are so very grateful to Eric Viale and Christophe Laure, Willemijn Geels and Prakash Krishnamurthy for their hospitality at the InterContinental Paris le Grand - AND for the generous sponsorship, without your continued support and commitment to our industry, these events would not be possible.

⚡ All proceeds will go directly to the Cornell Hotel Society EMEA Scholarships that allow each year a French hoteliers to attend courses on the Cornell Campus in Ithaca. If you would like to hear more about it, or if you have a candidate you would like to put forward, please contact france@cornellhotelsociety.com.

🧡 Last but not least, thank you to the amazing current ESSEC MSc in Hospitality Management (IMHI) students Eva Kapoor and (Nicole) Ngoc NGUYEN for their assistance during the event.