Join HSMAI members and their guests as they mix and mingle at this Annual "State of the Industry" luncheon. For the ninth year in a row, Robert Hayward from Warnick + Company will be presenting us with valuable information - a hospitality industry recap of 2011 and a preview of what is in store for 2012. We are encouraging members to bring their bosses at the HSMAI member rate of $30.

Plan on coming early to participate in our annual Committee Tradefair to find out how you can get more involved with our chapter.

Our speaker, Bob Hayward, specializes in development and operational consulting, asset management, brokerage, feasibility and investment analysis, and litigation support for a wide variety of projects within the hospitality, gaming, recreational, and leisure real estate industries.

Warnick + Company is a strategic advisory firm that creates opportunities and value-enhancing solutions in lodging and recreational real estate for our clients worldwide. They are in the knowledge business, and the hospitality industry is their passion.

With nearly 400 years of combined hands-on experience, their professional team brings a real-world perspective to lodging operations and development. Individually and collectively, they have worked every position in a hotel including numerous stints as general manager and regional manager. Not only have they run hotels - they have developed hotels, bought and sold hotels, financed hotels… in other words, they've been there and done that. Their experience comes not from consulting - but from hands-on, boots on the ground, in the trenches experience. More information is available at www.warnickco.com.

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