As emerge back into more “normal” market conditions with global vaccination programmes gathering pace and international travel restrictions beginning to lift, the pent-up desire to travel, connect and explore is likely to provoke a rapid improvement in the industry’s fortunes.

The Hotel Show Dubai's annual Hospitality Leadership Forum provides a rare opportunity to share time with the industry’s most effective leaders as they offer up analysis of how they’ve adjusted their operational structures and tactics over this period, and provide candid insights on how they’re positioning their businesses for the recovery.

2024 forum offers insight into how the industry’s leadership think, create, manage and develop critical elements of their properties and what they're planning next. All presentations and panel discussions will place an emphasis on audience interaction. The seats will be strictly limited, so advise all senior hospitality professionals to register their place now.

It is currently working on our exciting new agenda for 2023, but in the meantime, feel free to take a look at our 2024 agenda to see what panel discussions took place at our last show.

key themes for 2026 will include:

Innovation in Hospitality

Hospitality, Digital Twins and Metaverse

Hospitality in a digital economy

Sustainable and ethical hospitality

Investment and growth opportunities in the Middle East

Destination brand

The future of work, analysing the impact and opportunities on the hospitality industry

Procurement, sustainability and maximising revenues

Dubai clean energy strategy and hospitality