16 April 2008

No Vacancy Conference kicks off in Sydney

Sydneyââ¬â¢s one day No Vacancy Conference kicked off yesterday with a full house of hotel and technology leaders and managers at Sydneyââ¬â¢s Dockside Conference Centre, with Stellaââ¬â¢s Bob East proclaiming his comments at the conference were off the record!

East said that Stella, the owner of practically all aspects of the travel distribution chain, is and will treat all its partners in distribution, in exactly the same way when it comes to commission as they treat those that are part of the Stella Group, adding that commission parity was a fundamental principle of the Company.

Interestingly the statement by East is rather at odds with statements made by other Stella Group executives who have said that the Group is determined to minimise commission leakage outside the Group with a mission of increasing occupancy and revenue at Group properties.

Other speaker at No Vacancy included:

Darrin Bird, CEO, Carbonza.com

Bradley Cocks, Kiwi Collection  

Tessa Court, Hitwise

Russell Farr, Australian Online Travel

David Fernandez, Outrider 

Paul Fisher, TotalTravel.com

Jeff Floyd, AAA Tourism

Mike Ford, SiteMinder

Gary Knowles, Roamfree Group 

Shannon Knapp, Group Revenue and Distribution Mgr, Mirvac Hotels & Resorts

Nick McCaw, NZââ¬â¢s Hotel SO 

Andrew Maurer, Tourism Research Australia

Martin McConnachie,  Allotz.com 

Michael Meade, Rendezvous Hotels

Laurel Papworth, Social Media Strategist; and

Terry Schwamberg-Kaljo, Owner, Contemporary Hotels

More reports from the No Vacancy Conference later this week.

A Report by The Mole

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