Amazing year with amaz-ing events. Food andHotel Indonesia 2019,Pub Restaurant andBar 2019 gained bigsuccess events last month, not to men-tions many other events such HotelInvestment Malaysia 2019 and manyother. There are upcoming hospitalityevents next month too and THINC 2019will held in Bali this September 5th, somanage your time to register and cometo this famousinvestment conference. Since its inception,the conference has been the founding grounds for some of themost defining hospitality trends in this part of the world. Each year,THINC Indonesia brings together nearly 250 industry stakeholders,business leaders and key decision-makers from close to 15 nations .Food and Hotel Malaysia 2019, The Malaysian premier trade onlyfood and hospitality show, Food & Hotel Malaysia (FHM), will beback for the 15th time from 24-27 September 2019 , makes sure yousave the date, and register as soon as you can. Read about FHM2019start on page 100 and just click there to register.Whats more on this edition, Hotel360 UK’s leading hospitalityevent dedicated to increasing hotel profitability! IDeaS Webinar ,Shanghai International Hospitality Design , and much more. Enjoy !

Dear Hotelier Indonesia, Talking about the Bali crisis , Horwath’s Indonesia-based Director Matt Gebbie said “the volcanic activity and the precariousness of demand sources has shone a spotlight on the over-reliance on one-trick ponies, Australia and China . Click here to go to page 60 In this edition, Bali Hotel and Hotel Residences Market Report by leading consulting firms Horwath HTL and C9 Hotelworks is not to be miss. Click here to get there to page 64 See the Movenpick 70 years anniversary events on page 110. And as always , some great hospitality events to know and visit start from page 8. I wish you all a wonderful life, and healthy mind. more to come

If you ever stayed or worked at a hotel, this book will take you to familiar places. The journey of an international hotelier is told through several stories, offering a peek behind the scenes. It also paints a picture of life in socialist Hungary in the decades before the collapse of the East-European communist regimes. How did the Archbishop of Canterbury get into the back seat of a beat-up old Lada for a ride on narrow country roads to visit the Abbey of Tihany, Hungary? What was a most genuine solution improvised by the night manager, when the highest ranked executives of the largest Canadian bank held a private year-end party at a suite of a Toronto hotel and ran out of beer past the last call? How did a return guest get walked on an oversold night to another hotel after the hotel ran out of rooms? How was sleeping on a couch sold for a night in the elevator lobby of a hotel? What happened when a special cake of a corporate convention was dropped and ruined by accident in the middle of the night? These stories and others take readers on a trip across continents and into the life of a professional hotelier who spent decades in hotel operations. The author also describes life in the seventies and eighties in Budapest, Hungary. Entertaining insights by a good storyteller offer a real treat for the reader.

What does it take to succeed in the hospitality industry, where the pressures are immense but the premiums can exceed the imagination? Industry stalwart K.B. Kachru describes hospitality in its highest sense as a skillful navigation of boundaries between the self and others, as a kind of reflexive service fuelled by empathetic vision and yielding the greatest tangible and intangible rewards. In Humility and Agility: The Life of a Hotelier, Kachru celebrates a five-decade-long, eventful and star-studded career in the hospitality industry, often reminiscing on enriching interactions with the world’s top dignitaries, including prime ministers, presidents and royalty. Even as he charts his inspiring rise to the top of the barrel, Kachru candidly illustrates his humble beginnings and most challenging stumbles introducing key leadership lessons borne of his unique experiences and sensitive insight. By offering readers a wholesome yet thrilling glimpse into the man and the machine, Kachru’s memoir holds the power of a memorable and delightful wisdom, certain to resonate with hospitality professionals and youth driven to achieve success in their fields.