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India’s most comprehensive hospitality trade show ready to roll

HospitalityWorld is the definitive event for the restaurant and hotel industry, featuring the latest foodservice and hospitality products and services.

Organised under the banner of India's premier hospitality publication - Express Hospitality - the event has truly carved a niche for itself as India's most comprehensive hospitality trade show. Bringing together the finest gathering of the industry's most prestigious companies, institutions and leading professionals, the event is recognised by both the seller and buyer community as an incomparable business platform for interactions and transactions.

Now in its third year, HospitalityWorld is being held between December 15 to 17, 2006 at one of Mumbai's premier business destinations - the World Trade Centre (Expo Centre), Cuffe Parade, Mumbai. The event, supported by the leading trade associations, will feature domestic as well as international exhibitors. It will be the place to make new contacts, generate new leads, catch up with existing clients and develop new B2B networks. The event promises three days of intense buyer seller meets with a visitor universe comprising of CEOs, business owners, senior management, industry veterans, and senior & mid-level professionals.

HospitalityWorld will see participation from across all sections of the service provider community comprising:

• Commercial Kitchen, Food Service and Bakery Equipment
• Technology and Entertainment
• Interior Design, Furniture and Furnishing
• F&B
• Glassware and Tableware
• House-keeping Equipment
• Engineering and Energy Saving Equipment
• Educational Institutions

Staged alongside will be the Smart Housekeeping Seminar and The Great Indian Culinary Challenge (GICC). This year will also see the launch of a new special event - NexGen Technology Conference. Designed specially for hospitality technocrats, the conference will answer all that one wants to know about use and application of the latest technology in the field of hospitality.

NexGen Technology Conference

A robust economy, growing businesses, greater purchasing power, and surge in business & leisure travel has resulted in a flourishing and booming hospitality industry. But with the opportunity comes difficult challenges. Mounting competition and rising guest expectations are compelling the industry to take a fresh look at their businesses. The emerging technologies, capabilities and supporting infrastructure are 'must have' tools to overcome these challenges and ensure a better tomorrow.

Integration of the latest technologies in hospitality are fast becoming the cornerstone of delivery for profitability, guest satisfaction, and most importantly, a differentiating factor. A step towards becoming an 'Intelligent Hotel'.

The one-day NexGen Technology conference, held alongside HospitalityWorld, will witness the gathering of industry's top technocrats and will open up the chapter of new and innovative technology solutions for the hospitality sector. The conference promises to be the single-most productive, learning and knowledge sharing experience for the participants.

Date: December 16, 2006
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Centrum, World Trade Centre, Mumbai

Profile of delegates:

• Hotel Owners
• Managing Directors
• CEOs
• General Managers
• Chief Technology Managers
• IT Managers
• Systems Administrators.

The Great Indian Culinary Challenge

The Great Indian Culinary Challenge (GICC) is the industry's only professional food preparation competition, organised at a national level, involving senior and apprentice chefs from India. Designed on an internationally modelled framework, the prime objective of the GICC is to establish a professional platform where culinary professionals across India can display their individual and collective skills, learn, share experiences, partner and network in a purely businesslike and competitive environment. In short, an event that is marked on every chef's calendar. GICC is supported by the apex body of Indian chef community - The Indian Federation of Culinary Associations (IFCA) - and regional associations viz. Western India Culinary Association, South India Culinary Association and The Indian Culinary Forum.

This year, the 3rd edition of the GICC is being conducted on a much larger scale with an estimated participation of over 250 chefs from across India. The event, being held in conjunction with HospitalityWorld promises to be more exciting, more enthusiastic and more intense. It will witness industry heavyweights and rookies whip up sumptuous and exotic dishes in the quest to prove their passion for cooking, while the dignified jury panel will closely monitor their every move in their pursuit for ascertaining culinary excellence.

Dates: December 16 & 17, 2006 (2 Days)
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Centrum, World Trade Centre, Mumbai

Competition categories:

• Pastry Show Pieces
• Fruit and Vegetable Carving
• Butter & Margarine Sculpture
• Plated Appetisers
• Petit Fours/Pralines
• Desserts
• Individual Hot Cooking (Senior)
• Individual Hot Cooking (Student)

Jury Panel: International jury, including members of IFCA

Profile of participants:

• Pastry Chefs
• Prep Chefs
• Sous Chefs
• Garde Manger Cooks
• Commi Chefs
• Station Cooks
• Executive Chefs
• Professional Cookery Students.

Profile of institutions:

• Bakery, Cake and Confectionery Shops
• Fine Dining
• Theme Restaurants
• Speciality Restaurants.

Smart Housekeeping Seminar

Hospitality Housekeeping - how to run it most efficiently? This question consistently discomforts hotel management teams across the industry. Regardless of the star rating or luxury quotient of a property, the impeding concern is - to ensure perfectly cleaned spotless rooms and pristine hotel premises.

The Smart Housekeeping Seminar is an attempt to create a common platform for industry professionals to discuss and debate key issues faced in the housekeeping function.

This year the second edition of Smart Housekeeping Seminar is being held alongside HospitalityWorld. The theme this year is 'Transforming role of the Housekeeper'. Featuring expert speakers and an intensive presentation format, the seminar will cover a host of carefully chosen topics viz. hiring, training and retaining staff, leadership, service excellence, budgeting, inventory control, outsourcing, energy conservation, and environmental issues.

Date: December 15, 2006
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Centrum, World Trade Centre, Mumbai

Profile of delegates:

By designation:

• Senior Management
• Property Managers
• Head - Housekeeping
• Housekeeping Supervisors
• Executive Housekeepers
• Housekeeping Trainers

By organisation:

• Large & Medium Hotels
• Commercial Complexes
• Malls
• BPO Industry
• Facility Management Companies
• Amusement Parks.