IDeaS Industry Partners are hospitality and travel industry organizations that collaborate with IDeaS to provide RM thought-leadership and encourage RM best practices among their stakeholders.
If interested in becoming an IDeaS Industry Partner, please download the Expression of Interest Form and electronically forward the completed form to IDeaS.
Design Hotels™ represents and markets a hand-picked collection of more than 170 hotels in over 40 countries across the globe. Established in 1993, as the first of its kind, the company offers unparalleled specialist knowledge from conceptual branding through to market trend consultancy and international representation. The company has its headquarters in Berlin and branches in London, Barcelona, New York, Singapore, Bali, Tokyo and Perth.
The National Trust established Historic Hotels of America in 1989 to identify quality hotels that have faithfully maintained their historic integrity, architecture and ambience. To be accepted into Historic Hotels of America, hotels must be located in a building that is at least 50 years old and listed in, or eligible for, the National Register of Historic Places or recognized locally as having historic significance.
Preferred Hotel Group is a global leader in the hospitality industry that delivers high-performance sales, marketing, and technology solutions to approx. 400 independent hotels and resorts in more than 60 countries around the world. With 28 sales offices worldwide, Preferred Hotel Group is the industry leader in providing state-of-the-art technology, innovative business solutions and strategic sales support.
WORLDHOTELS is the largest and most established Europe based global hotel group for independent hotels and regional hotel brands. The company's strong emphasis is on properties with character and distinction. Under the banner "Bringing Unique Hotels and People Together", WORLDHOTELS offers business and leisure travelers a wide choice of individualistic accommodation in Deluxe, First Class and Comfort collections. WORLDHOTELS provides a wide range of sales, marketing, distribution and related and has about 500 member properties in more than 300 destinations and 70 countries
worldwide.
AH&LA is a 94-year-old dual membership association 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.
BAHA aims to bring together professionals involved in financial management and control within the hospitality industry. Membership includes financial controllers, finance directors, finance teams as well as systems specialists, hospitality consultants and accountants, bankers, investment analysts, property professionals and academics.
HSMAI is a global organization of sales and marketing professionals representing all segments of the hospitality industry. With a strong focus on education, HSMAI has become the industry champion in identifying and communicating trends in the hospitality industry while operating as a leading voice for both hospitality and sales and marketing management disciplines, as well as connecting its members with customers.
HEDNA is a not-for-profit trade association whose worldwide membership includes over 200 of the most influential companies in the hotel distribution industry. All of HEDNA's activities are intended to stimulate hotel bookings through the use of Global Distribution Systems (GDSs), the Internet and other electronic means.
The premier technology solutions association in the hospitality industry, HTNG is a self-funded, non-profit organization with members from hotel and hospitality companies, technology vendors to hospitality, and other industry members including consultants, media, and academic experts. HTNG's members participate in focused workgroups to bring to market open solution sets addressing specific business problems. HTNG fosters the selection and adoption of existing open standards. Where necessary, it also develops new open standards to meet the needs of the global hospitality industry.
The Institute of Hospitality is the professional body for managers – and aspiring managers – working in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industries. With over 10,000 members in the UK, and in more than 100 countries worldwide, the Institute aims to offer support to members throughout their careers in the industry. The Institute is managed as an educational charity, with its primary purpose being "to promote the highest professional standards of management and education in the international hospitality, leisure and tourism industries".
The Open Travel Alliance provides a community where companies in the electronic distribution supply chain work together to create an accepted structure for electronic messages, enabling suppliers and distributors to speak the same interoperability language, trading partner to trading partner.
PhoCusWright, the travel industry research authority, fosters smart strategic planning and tactical decision-making by delivering primary research on the evolving dynamics that influence travel, tourism, and hospitality distribution. To complement its research in North America, Europe, and Asia, PhoCusWright partners with and produces several high-profile conferences around the world.
A unit of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, The Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) sponsors research designed to improve practices in the hospitality industry. Under the lead of the center's corporate affiliates, experienced scholars work closely with business executives to discover new insights into strategic, managerial and operating practices. The center also publishes the award-winning hospitality journal, the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly. SAS Institute, IDeaS' parent company and IDeaS support the CHR mission as a Partner of the center.
