Diageo's Ron Anderson to address Symposium

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Diageo's global duty-free head signals firm support for January's Asia/Pacific Travel Partnership Symposium

Diageo has placed its commitment firmly behind the Asia/Pacific Travel Partnership Symposium with the confirmation that managing director global duty free Ron Anderson will provide a keynote address on day two of the proceedings.
 
The event, in collaboration with the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and supported by the Asia Pacific Travel Retail Association (APTRA), will be held on January 24-26 in Macau at the new signature resort by Steve Wynn (opening August 2006).
 
In his presentation, "Breaking out of the store: The Brand Perspective", Anderson explores ways in which brand companies could partner with hotel groups to enhance the experience for international guests.
 
Anderson joins an already powerful lineup of senior executives from the wider travel and tourism and travel-retail industries for this inaugural event—the first of its kind to connect both industries. Our research findings from a database of over 30,000 interviews with consumers travelling through airports across the world demonstrated to us how useful it would to unite the two industries in one event to discuss how they can better serve different travelling nationalities—and subsequently maximise revenues—through partnership and information sharing.
 
Information sharing and partnership opportunities form the foundations of the programme, which features hoteliers, resorts, internet booking companies, tour operators, airports, airport retailers, brand owners, airlines and national tourism organisations. By attending delegates will gain an enhanced understanding of how companies in the travel chain can work together to drive sales in their respective businesses by improving and fine-tuning the offer to consumers.
 
Event information:
 
Confirmed speakers include:
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• Brian Deeson, CEO Greater China and Senior VP Asia/Pacific, Accor Hotels Group
• Ron Anderson, Director Global Duty-Free, Diageo
• Grant Bowie, President/General Manager, Wynn Macau
• Joao Manuel Costa Autunes, Director, Macau Government Tourist Office
• Rosemary Nightingale, Director Visitor Services, Macy's West
• Luzi Matzig, Managing Director, Asian Trails
• Paul Topping, Managing Director, Alpha Asia
• Nancy Cockerell, Director, The Travel Business Partnership
• Ivo Favotto, Senior Principal Airports & Infrastructure, Finance & Economics, URS Corp.
• Ian Cesa, President and CEO, Horizon Research Corporation
• Peter de Jong, President and CEO, PATA
• John Koldowski, Strategic Intelligence Director, PATA
• Kate Chang, Director Beijing Office, PATA

 
Key sessions include:

• Building the Ultimate Mega-brand Experience: The American-Chinese Connection
• The Retailer-Resort Dynamic
• The Gaming Conundrum: How to Extend the Tourist Stay (interactive panel discussion)
• Tuning in to the Premier Travelling Customer
• Book, Shop and Spa: Connecting the Key Stakeholders (interactive panel discussion)
• The Changing Face of Chinese Travel (exclusive data session 1)
• Understanding Russian Travellers (exclusive data session 2)
• Partnership Power: the Hotelier Perspective (interactive panel discussion)
• The Olympics Effect (interactive panel discussion)

 
For more information, and to book your place, contact Gerrard Kennedy, on +44 20 7779 8222, gkennedy@ravenfox.com. Or visit the events section of our website by clicking here.