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UK: The 2024 ShortTermRentalz Summit is now just eight days away and excitement is building for a diverse agenda filled with a range of session formats and a host of new and recognisable thought leaders from the global short-term rental industry and beyond.
The second annual one-day Summit will be held at Bankside Hotel Autograph Collection on Tuesday 5 November, following last year’s inaugural event at Skyline London.
Last-minute tickets remain on sale here – book your tickets now to connect with everyone from property investors to investors, online travel agencies [OTAs], suppliers, media and consultants.
If you have already secured your ticket – or even if you haven’t just yet, here are some select highlighted sessions that you cannot afford to miss at the STRz Summit:
- Navigating the investment landscape [09:55 – 10:30]
Thought leaders will explore the current mergers and acquisitions [M&A] and global investment landscape. In doing so, they will highlight the challenges to dealmaking and provide insights into how to secure different types of funding and how to prepare your business for a sale.
Moderator:
- Simon Lehmann, co-founder and CEO, AJL Atelier
Speakers:
- Vered Raviv Schwarz, president and COO, Guesty
- Dale Smith, founder and CEO, Host & Stay
- Nam Quach, managing director, DC Advisory
- Daniel Gennaoui, senior vice president, PSG Equity
- Debate: Over-tourism vs under-tourism: Does tourism need a fundamental reset? [11:00 – 11:30am]
This session will place the spotlight on ‘over-tourism’ and ‘under-tourism’ and whether the travel tourism industry needs a fundamental reset to lead into a sustainable future. To what extent are short-term rentals responsible for over-tourism? Which cities and countries need more tourists?
Motion: ‘Short-term rentals are being scapegoated for the housing crisis – tourism requires a wider fundamental reset’
Moderator:
- Katherine Doggrell, co-founder, NewDog PR
Speakers:
- Alistair Handyside MBE, executive chair, PASC UK
- Eva Satkute Stewart, global managing partner, GSIQ Tourism Insights
- Professor Harold Goodwin, managing director, Responsible Tourism Partnership, founder, ICRT global
- Debate: AI in hospitality and travel – game changer or over-hyped? [12:00 – 12:30pm]
In the second debate of the day, four industry experts will assess the future of artificial intelligence [AI] and its impact on the travel and hospitality industries. How far advanced is it and how much can we rely on it to automate processes? To what extent will it be a game changer for the sector or is it being over-hyped. Our panel will discuss all this and more.
Motion: ‘AI in hospitality and travel is over-hyped’
Moderator:
- Paul Stevens, editor – short-term rentals, International Hospitality Media
For motion speakers:
- Suzanne Luscombe, strategic growth director, ResiCentral
- Matthew Loney, president and CEO, Xplorie
Against motion speakers:
- Felix Welckenbach, director organic growth and product, HomeToGo
- Pierre-Camille Hamana, founder and CEO, Hospitable
- CEO Question Time [14:00 – 14:30pm]
The CEO Question Time conversation will be your opportunity to ask a panel of high-profile industry CEOs your burning questions about the sector.
Moderator:
- Paul Stevens, editor – short-term rentals, International Hospitality Media
Speakers:
- Henrik Kjellberg, CEO, Awaze
- Mariek Anselme, co-founder and CEO, A.M.A Selections
- Alex Limpert, co-founder and CEO, GuestReady and RentalReady
- Start-up X-Ray [16:30 – 17:05pm]
This serious but light-hearted interactive ‘Dragons Den’ discussion focuses on a review and “check-up” of three emerging short-term rental and hospitality brands. Three individual five-minute pitches will be based on the following criteria: investment cost and / or funding required; product ‘fit’; competitive positioning; target market size; sales and marketing; distribution. Three startup investors will participate in a short Q&A with the audience voting on a winner!
Hosted by:
- Piers Brown, CEO, International Hospitality Media
Brands pitching:
- Siddhi Mittal, co-founder, yhangry
- Aris Apostolopoulos, B2B marketing / growth manager, Welcome Pickups
- Dragos Diac, founder, Aeve.ai
Expert panel:
- Natasha Terinova, partner, REACH UK, Second City Ventures
- Paul Carter, owner, PACE Tourism Consulting
- Yasha Estraikh, associate partner, Piper Private Equity
Book your 2024 STRz Summit tickets at this link.
The event also precedes World Travel Market [WTM] and SCALE UK in London, allowing you to create maximum value from your week across multiple events. You can also visit this link and use the code STRZ10 to trigger a ten per cent discount for the two-day SCALE UK event at the Oval Cricket Ground.
