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Summit PartnersContributor – Boeing is the world’s leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercialjetliners and military aircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic anddefense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. As amajor service provider to NASA, Boeing operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. Boeing hascustomers in more than 90 countries around the world and is one of the largest US exporters in terms of sales.Headquartered in Chicago, Boeing employs more than 150,000 people across the United States and in 70countries. The company also leverages the talents of hundreds of thousands more skilled people working forBoeing suppliers worldwide.Contributor – The Emirates Academy is part of the Jumeirah Group. It is the only truly international hotelschool in this region, offering 4 year accredited degrees in Hospitality Management. These include a six monthinternship and several short experience gaining industry placements. The Academy collaborates with the Ecolehôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland, with whom we work in a unique academic association and have a studentexchange. In addition to the undergraduate degrees, The Academy is developing a Masters programme whichwill be offered from 2009. The Academy also offers consulting services and provides a range of ProfessionalDevelopment Programmes for managers in the region. Alumni from The Emirates Academy have graduated intomanagement positions within most of the world’s leading hotel companies.Contributor – Espírito Santo Tourism is a holding company in the tourism sector and it is a strong leaderin the Portuguese market namely in hotels and travel distribution.Owning and managing Tivoli Hotels with prime location properties in Portugal and Brazil, totalling over3,000 rooms.In the travel and distribution sector the Group leads the market, with a turnover in excess of €400 million.Espírito Santo Tourism is also the largest single shareholder of Invest Tur, one of Brazil’s major developers ofintegrated resorts and residential projects, listed on BOVESPA, São Paulo’s stock market.Brazil is a key strategic market for Portfolio expansion, both in resort and residential opportunities, benefitingfrom the Espírito Santo Bank’s longstanding presence in Brazil.partnersContributor – Hilton Hotels Corporation is the leading global hospitality company, with more than 3,000hotels and 500,000 rooms in more than 80 countries, including 100,000 team members worldwide.The company owns, manages or franchises a hotel portfolio of some of the best known and highly regardedbrands, including Hilton ® , Conrad Hotels & Resorts ® , Doubletree ® , Embassy Suites Hotels ® , Hampton Inn ® ,Hampton Inn & Suites ® , Hilton Garden Inn ® , Hilton Grand Vacations (R) , Homewood Suites by Hilton ® , and TheWaldorf-Astoria Collection ® .The company currently operates 44 hotels in Middle East & Africa, with a pipeline of an additional 16 properties.For more information visit www.hiltonworldwide.com75
Summit PartnersContributor – IBM is the world’s largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership inhelping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offersa wide range of services, software, and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantageof the new era of on demand business through focusing on innovation that matters.In addition, IBM has the industry experience and business consulting capabilities to help travel companiestransform and differentiate themselves to meet the needs of the on demand era: to set priorities, to find leverageand innovation points, to put theory into practice, and to deliver short-term ROI with a plan for long-termeffectiveness. ibm.com/industries/travelPARTNERSContributor – TUI AG is an internationally active group that concentrates on the two growth sectors ofshipping and tourism. In both these divisions TUI commands a leading market position: number 1 among theEuropean travel companies and number 5 in the world of container shipping.In September 2007 TUI AG merged its travel activities – with the exception of its hotel business – with the Britishtravel group First Choice Holidays PLC to form TUI TRAVEL PLC, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange.TUI AG is the majority shareholder in the new company, which handles more than 30 million customers.With 237 hotels and some 144,000 beds TUI Hotels & Resorts is the largest leisure hotelier in Europe.TUI AG has organised its shipping activities under the umbrella of Hapag-Lloyd AG, based in Hamburg. With141 container ships the company provides a total capacity of about 500,000 TEU. Hapag-Lloyd Cruises is theleading operator of premium and luxury cruises in German-speaking countries. www.tui-group.comSupporter – PhoCusWright is the travel industry research authority on the evolving dynamics that influencehow travelers, suppliers and intermediaries connect. Independent, rigorous and unbiased, PhoCusWright enablescompanies to make smart, profitable decisions.PhoCusWright provides global marketplace intelligence, offering an array of qualitative and quantitative researchthrough subscription services, individual reports and sponsored assignments. Areas of emphasis include consumertravel planning behavior as well as industry segmentation, sizing, forecasting, trends and analysis. Clients representall facets of the industry value chain from around the world.The company is headquartered in Connecticut, USA, with offices in New York, Duesseldorf and Mumbai.www.phocuswright.com76
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