Bridging the Gap: Optimizing Hotels and Buyers Relationships

Drawing from customized and up-to-the minute data, learn how to have better relationships and results in an evolving and challenging market.

For buyers: learn how you can work more effectively with hotels and show the value of your business overall.

For the supply side: understand your customers’ needs and find new ways to communicate through technology while still selling your benefits.

Our guest speaker this month is Victor Jigalin, Director of Sales for TravelClick Inc.Victor will share the current tool majority of suppliers are using to analyze industry data and how it is/can be used as a resource to enhance credibility, negotiation, and save buyer's time. In addition, he will also provide information on trends and market outlook in 2013.

Victor Jigalin
Director of Sales, San Francisco Region
TravelClick Inc.
Please click here for Victor's Bio!

Meet the candidates for the upcoming BABTA election!

The BABTA Election is approaching for the open VP officer positions for 2013-2014.   Meet the candidates at the October event!  Following is a list of the candidates and their bios (please check back soon on the BABTA Home page for additional candidate bios):

Candidate for Vice President, Business Development
     Al Gilbert Bio

Candidate for Vice President, Government Affairs
     Dave Danby Bio

Candidate for Vice President, Membership
     Suzie Chickeles Bio

Candidate for Vice President, Public Relations/Newsletter
     Lisa Shenefiel Bio

Candidate for Vice President, Technology
     Greg Sweeney Bio

Candidate for Vice President, Venues
     Amy Cacho Bio
     Mimi Carter Bio

BABTA would like to thank our 2012 Diamond Sponsor:

A special thank you to our meeting host: