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Lifetime Achievement Award
The International Hospitality Investment Forum (IHIF) will present the 23rd Lifetime Achievement Award to David Kong, former CEO of Best Western Hotels & Resorts at IHIF 2022.
Kong, who served 17 years as president and CEO before retiring last year, will receive the honour in recognition of his leadership at the helm of Best Western Hotels & Resorts and his unwavering commitment to building a more inclusive hospitality sector.
During his 17-year tenure as CEO of Best Western Hotels & Resorts, Kong grew the company from one brand to 18 and under his leadership the company saw unprecedented RevPAR and EBITDA growth.
On receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, David Kong said: “It is a tremendous honour to receive this year’s International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) Lifetime Achievement Award, after serving in an industry that is so near and dear to my heart. I have spent my entire career in the hospitality industry, and the last 17 years serving as the President and CEO of Best Western Hotels & Resorts have been supremely rewarding, as we achieved record breaking results in brand growth, revenue delivery, as well as guest and hotel satisfaction."
The award will be presented to Kong at IHIF in Berlin on 5 May where he will also take part in a Q&A.
HAMA Awards
IHIF in partnership with HAMA Europe are pleased to announce the winners of The HAMA Europe Asset Management Achievement Award 2020. The awards provide an opportunity to formally recognise the many accomplishments of the winning companies across three categories, Single Asset Strategy, Portfolio Strategy and Sustainablilty Strategy.
Congratulations to our winners:
Sustainability Strategy Award
Conscious Hotels
for Conscious Hotel Westerpark
Portfolio Strategy Award
Principal Real Estate
for Principal Hotel Real Estate Fund I
Single Asset Strategy Award
Amaris Hospitality Limited
for The DoubleTree by Hilton London Islington
Overall Winner
Amaris Hospitality Limited
for The DoubleTree by Hilton London Islington
The ISHC Young Leader Award At IHIF
Davina Cisier, Director of Development Luxury Hotels for Accor will be presented the prestigious ISHC Young Leader Award at the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF), a hospitality investment conference that hosts over 2500 senior figures from over 80 countries. New to the IHIF programme this year will be a generational discussion between the Young Leader Award winner and the IHIF Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. They will share their thoughts on successful hospitality strategies and their views of the future. Currently Davina is leading the growth of the Accor Luxury portfolio in Europe, which include the luxury and LifeStyle brands of the Group Accor: Banyan Tree, Raffles, Orient Express, Delano, Fairmont, SLS, So Sofitel, Sofitel, The House of Originals, Mondrian and Hyde. Most recently, she concluded the hotel agreements for the new Sofitel Taksim Istanbul, Fairmont Grand Hotel Geneva as well as the future Fairmont Golden Prague, the SO/ Sotogrande and the Raffles London. The Young Leader Award was established by ISHC and IHIF in 2009 to recognise and celebrate the excellence of young emerging leaders in the hospitality industry. Respected CEOs from across the hotel industry reviewed a short list of nomination forms of outstanding candidates before voting on the winner.