Jim Burba

The well-traveled Jim Burba joins us to follow up on a highly successful ALIS, held last week in Los Angeles. Also, hear what Jim has to say about this and the upcoming International Hotel Investment Forum in Berlin. In this streaming audio interview, Jim also discusses his new deal with intelliMeet.

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ALIS is designed to provide an annual meeting place for hotel executives, investors, lenders, developers and the professional advisor community in the hotel and tourism industry. It is a Summit that brings together leading experts and investors to discuss important trends and to identify new opportunities. ALIS features an extensive array of seminars, think tanks and keynote presentations about important and timely issues facing the investment community. Additionally, a heavy emphasis in the programming is placed on giving delegates a chance to meet and conduct their business. The program is designed with the needs of the investment community (the attendee) in mind. Perhaps the most important and unique part of ALIS is its organizational structure. The hosts of the event are committed to contributing a significant portion of the net proceeds of the event to educating future leaders of the hospitality industry. Benefiting from the event is the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation. By attending ALIS, you will be supporting the education of the hospitality industry's future leaders from coast-to-coast. Jim Burba, Worldwide Director of Advisory Services for WATG and President of BHN, serves as chairman of ALIS. Tony Marshall, President of the Educational Institute of AH&LA oversees the efforts of the AH&LA.

AH&LA is a 93-year-old federation of state lodging associations throughout the United States with some 11,000 property members worldwide, representing more than 1.5 million guest rooms. AH&LA provides its members with assistance in operations, education, and communications, and lobbies on Capitol Hill to provide a business climate in which the industry can continue to prosper. Individual state associations provide representation at the state level and offer many additional cost-saving benefits.

BHN brings together nearly two decades of experience developing and organizing the world's most prominent gatherings of the hotel and tourism investment community. At these events (over 40 conferences completed and/or in development), the investment community has come together to network, conduct business and learn about the latest industry trends. They have become "must attend" events for those interested in investing in hospitality real estate. The BHN Web site at www.BURBA.com, is the gateway for information about the conferences BHN produces, as well as providing a direct link to important players in the hospitality investment world, including lenders, brokers, architects, designers and hotel industry-related organizations.

Kevin Heilbronner is the US Editor for wiredhotelier.com and hospitalitynet.org, providing streaming multimedia-content for these websites. Based outside of Washington DC, Heilbronner has worked with Hsyndicate to conduct interviews at several hospitality trade shows in the US and Europe over the last couple of years. His column and content are featured in the Hospitality Net weekly newsletter. A familiar voice in Washington, DC, Heilbronner is the stadium announcer for the NBA's Washington Wizards, WNBA's Washington Mystics and WUSA's Washington Freedom. He resides in Centreville, VA and can be reached via email: [email protected].

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