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It runs an annual restaurant and hospitality industry trade show in the US, in Chicago, and conducts research about the country's restaurant industry. [15] For instance, it states that the restaurant industry in the US in 2021 employs 14.5 million Americans (up from 12.5 million in 2012), with sales in 2021 at $799 billion (up from $632 billion ...
The organization's stated objective is to promote interoperability of the many technology systems used in the hotel industry, such as property management systems, point-of-sale systems, telephone systems, building automation systems, guest room entertainment systems such as video on demand, security and access control systems, and many others.
Stands during MWC Barcelona 2019, a trade show for the mobile communications industry in Barcelona, Spain. A trade show, also known as trade fair, trade exhibition, or trade exposition, is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers, study activities of competitors ...
The American Hotel Protective Association, founded in 1910 as a regional trade association in Chicago, [1] became the American Hotel Association in 1917. The AHA's first president, Frank Dudley, identified rapid expansion of the US hotel industry as vulnerable to a shortage of trained personnel which could not be filled by the then-common practice of recruiting European hotel workers.
The United States last year did nearly $2.2 trillion in the trade of goods — exports plus imports — with the countries the president is targeting: $840 billion with Mexico, $762 billion with ...
In 2015 the United Kingdom hospitality industry employed around 2.9m people – around 9% of the UK workforce. [12] By employment, it is the UK's fourth-largest industry. The most jobs in the industry are found in London (around 500,000) and South East England (around 400,000); 18% of workers in the UK industry are in London. There are around 1 ...
HOTOUR was founded a conference in Athens December 1–2, 2009 attended by 68 trade unionists from 17 countries. [1] It held its third congress in Alexandria in February 2020. As of 2020, the international was led by general secretary Mamdouh Mohamady Mohamed, [ 2 ] while its president was Janaka Adikari.
November 1947: Shortly after the end of the Second World War and the creation of the United Nations, hoteliers from the IHA met together with The European Aubergistes Association, and with the Asian Innkeepers Association in London, United Kingdom, and decided to merge into a larger international association aimed at defending the hospitality ...