Hi Aim to be held in Kathmandu

Kathmandu, Jan. 29: Hi Aim Conference, an international conference on hospitality industry, is to be organised in Kathmandu on February 21 and 22.

"The two-day event aims at creating a common knowledge sharing platform to confer and exchange ideas on key issues and emerging trends in hospitality industry," said Anil Sharma, managing director of Hi-Aim Conference Pvt. Ltd., India and professor at Indian Institute of Technology Rurkee.

He said that Hi-Aim promoted intellectual dialogues to find the ways and means to help and promote hospitality and responsible tourism.

Hi-Aim 2017 will be the 6^th conference in the series. Four conferences were held in India, and the fifth was organised in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

"The United National declared 2017 as 'International Year of Sustainable Tourism and Development'. What can be the better opportunity than this for holding this year's conference in Kathmandu, a hub of regional tourism," said Sharma.

The conference will feature architecture, interior design and management of hospitality industry, and more than 150 experts from South Asian countries and abroad will participate in the event.

"The forum offers a very unique platform to discuss and interact with industry experts who participate in the panel discussions, also address pertinent issues of the hospitality trade through presentations, brainstorming sessions and case studies," said Ramesh Koul, MD of Hi-Aim.

He said that the conference also had networking evenings for delegates, speakers, exhibitors which was an opportunity to exchange ideas with global industry leaders.

Sharma said that the conference would also feature honour ceremony where industry pioneers would be honoured.

Anukool Bhatnagar, MD of Nepal SBI Bank Limited, said that such conference would help the hospitality industry to share their ideas and update about latest technological innovations.