THIRDHOME has won the Best European Holiday Home Award 2019 in the category of Best Beach House! Three THIRDHOME properties were finalists under their own respective categories. Thank you European Holiday Home Association for this exciting honor! Click here to view all finalists.

I will be speaking at HOST 2019, the biggest event dedicated to the holiday rental community. My presentation will provide fresh insights on the rising popularity of home sharing, explain why home exchanges are the perfect complement to owner-occupation and rental programs, and show how THIRDHOME creates incredible value for both holiday homeowners and rental companies.  Join me and THIRDHOME at HOST 2019! The event will take place at the Business Design Centre, London, 31 Oct - 1 Nov 2019.

For more information and free tickets please visit https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/host/speaker-niki-CHRISTIANNUTSCH.stm

I have been appointed to the expert panel of the 2019 Best Holiday Home in Europe Awards. The Holiday Home Awards were instigated in 2015 by the European Holiday Home Association (EHHA) as a means to showcase the diversity and quality of holiday homes available for short term rental. The Awards are given to individual Holiday Homes that provide for a unique and high-quality holiday experience for the average holiday guest. The Holiday Home must be freely available for rent for a significant period of the year.

For more information, please visit https://www.holidayhomeaward.eu

I will be speaking at the European Conference of the Vacation Rental Management Association (VRMA) in Prague, March 17-19 talking about the business of investing in vacation rental properties. As a member of VRMA's European Conference Committee, I'd like to encourage vacation rental industry professionals to join me at this conference. 

For more information and registration visit http://www.vrma.org/p/cm/ld/fid=1064

I have been invited to speak at the Short Stay Show in London, the only show dedicated to the fastest growing trend in hospitality, property and technology.

• Premium-Access Conference for industry stakeholders and influencers wanting to hear from keynote speakers, UK Government representatives and notable panel session players.
• An Innovative Marketplace packed with new products and services for the sector including technology companies, platforms, traditional hospitality suppliers and specialist travel companies. Two Seminar Stages of learning and betterment for property owners, managers and hosts who are looking to find out the latest trends to improve their properties and listings.
• A Central Networking Area to connect, collaborate and converse with peers, industry figures and property owners.

Taking place on Thursday 14 March 2019 at the world-class London venue, ExCeL, the Short Stay Show will be opening the doors to entrepreneurs, technologists, national and local government representatives, property specialists, innovators and radical companies looking for inspiration and opportunity.

For more information and tickets, please visit https://shortstay.show/

The conference will take place from 10 - 12 of September 2017 at the Don Carlos Leisure Resort & Spa in Marbella (Spain). For more information and registration visit http://www.rdoconference.org .

For more information and registration visit www.servicedapartmentsummit.com and www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/short-term-rentalz-tickets-21983682787

I have been invited to speak at the Todi Appy Days, Italy's major conference dedicated to Mobile Applications and the Internet of Things (IoT). My session will revolve around mobile apps in the Travel and Tourism industry, aiming to help both app developers and tourism suppliers successfully create and promote travel- and tourism-related apps. The four-day event will take place from 24 - 27 September 2015 in Todi, the picturesque medieval hill town in Italy's green heart Umbria.

For more information and registration visit appydays.it

I'm pleased to announce that Forte Village, one of the world’s most renowned luxury resorts, has entered into a partnership with the Università degli Studi di Palermo International Master Program in Hospitality Management, offered in conjunction with Arces and Florida International University. I’m very gratified to have had the opportunity to play an instrumental role in establishing this partnership.

Consistently hailed as the world’s leading resort, Forte Village is located on 47 hectares of tropical vegetation on the beautiful southern coastline of Sardinia. Forte Village offers eight sophisticated hotels; 21 restaurants with Michelin-starred chefs, including Gordon Ramsay and Emanuele Scarello; and numerous options for recreation and sports activities. The resort’s philosophy is one of discretion, intimacy, and excellence, ensuring a truly exceptional holiday experience. I’d like to thank the management of the Eleganzia Hotels & Spas Group for providing internship opportunities for our Master students and for demonstrating their commitment to supporting excellence in hospitality education.

For more information about Forte Village, please visit www.fortevillageresort.com. To learn more about the Master Program, please go to www.arces.it/hfb.

I have been appointed visiting professor for the master program “Management del made in Italy. Promozione enogastronomica e valorizzazione delle eccellenze del territorio”, to give a seminar on food and beverage marketing. The seminar will teach students how Italian food and wine producers can use product-country-image and country-of-origin branding to positively influence consumer buying decisions in foreign target markets. The course will take place in Palermo (Sicily) and is offered by Università di Lingue e Scienze della Comunicazione Milano (IULM) together with Cerisdi Castello Utveggio (Centro di Ricerche e Studi Direzionali) and INPS (Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale).

For more information about this program, please visit www.iulm.it

I have been appointed to the expert panel of the 2015 Holiday Home Awards, hosted by the European Holiday Home Association (EHHA). The panel, comprised of international experts, will select finalists based on a review of all submissions. Finalists will be announced on May 12th, 2015 and award categories include the following:

For more information, please visit www.holidayhomeaward.eu.

Registration for the 2nd edition of the international Master of Economics: Hospitality Management - F&B 2015, taught in Palermo/Sicily, is now open. For more information about this program, please visit www.arces.it/hfb.

I have been appointed professor for the international master program in hospitality management, to give lectures on hospitality marketing.  The course will take place in Palermo (Sicily) and is offered by the University of Palermo (Università degli Studi di Palermo) in conjunction with l'Alta Scuola (Arces) and the Florida International University (Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management).

For more information about this program, please visit www.arces.it/hfb.

It has been a great pleasure for me to speak along high-profile speakers such as Simon Reeve, TV Presenter, New York Times bestselling author and British Travel Press Awards winner in 2013, Paul Easto of Wilderness Scotland, and Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Industry Manager Development for VisitScotland. The video summarizes the key takeaways from my presentation on the importance of online reviews.

I have been invited to speak at the ASSC (Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers) Conference 2014. The conference will focus on the changing tourism market, and will be held on November 4 in Edingburgh. 

Full details of the programme for the day will be posted soon on the ASSC website: http://www.assc.co.uk/conference/

I have been invited to speak at a tourism seminar in Austria, hosted by Lech Zürs Tourismus GmbH and Raiffeisenbank Lech. My session will educate hotel executives how to manage online reputation. The seminar will take place on 2 April. For more information on Lech/Zürs am Arlberg please visit www.lechzuers.com.

The 2013 conference of the European Resort Development Organization (RDO) took place in sunny Gran Canaria. It has been a great pleasure for me to have be invited as an expert panalist and to meet many of Europe´s leading professionals in the field of shared vacation ownership.

For a short summary of my presentation, please see the PDF below.

I have been invited to speak at the European Seminar of the Vacation Rental Managers Association (VRMA) and will present an educational session on Online Reputation Managmenet specifically designed for today's holiday rental professionals. The session will educate holiday rental professionals on how to manage online reviews, interpret guest feedback, improve guest service and property care to ultimately increase the number of booking enquiries and conversions rates. 

The VRMA European Seminar 2013 will be held from December 9 to 11 at the Crowne Plaza Brugge, Belgium. 

For more information and registration visit http://vrma.membershipsoftware.org/europeprogram2013

I will be attending the conference "Celebrating and Enhancing the Tourism Knowledge-based Platform: A Tribute to Jafar Jafari", which is going to take place from 23 to 25 October at the Universitat de les Illes Balears in Palma de Mallorca. The international conference aims to expand and develop the tourism knowledge-based platform by inviting researchers to revisit, analyse and expand the legacy of Jafar Jafari in the fields of tourism paradigms, tourism research frontiers and tourism education.

For more information and conference registration please visit 

http://www.uibcongres.org/congresos/ficha.en.html?cc=261

I am excited to announce the start of a Europe-wide seminar series called " From Reviews to Revenue: How Hospitality Leaders are Realising ROI through Reputation Management". In these 2,5 hours seminars sponsored by Revinate, I will show hoteliers accross Europe:

• Why online reputation management has become a critical function for hotels

• How to develop their own online reputation management programme

• How to monitor and interpret review data and reports

• How to respond to reviews and guest feedback

• How to operationalise feedback to improve guest satisfaction and drive revenue

• How Revinate’s easy-to-use software service helps hoteliers to actively monitor and engage with pubic guestfeedback

For more information, please see the PDF below.

I am extremely pleased to announce a collaboration with Revinate for a Europe-wide Seminar Series to uncover how hospitality leaders are realizing ROI with proactive online reputation management. Revinate is an industry-leading software platform designed exclusively for the hospitality industry that makes it easy to aggregate, analyze and utilize guest feedback to improve operations and drive new sales. Revinate clients include 20,000 of the world's leading hotels and hospitality brands such as IHG, Orient-Express, Jumeirah, Rocce Forte Hotels, Wyndham, Carlson Rezidor, Hilton and more. The first Seminar will take place in Amsterdam on 5 September 2013. For further information about registration, please click here.

I just returned from the Hotel ORM Conference in Palma de Mallorca where I gave the keynote speech to “How to manage your hotel´s Online Reputation”. It has been a great pleasure to speak at this highly successful conference, which was attended by academics, students, representatives of the Mallorca Hotel Federation (FEHM) as well as executives from several hotel-chains having its roots and headquarter on the island, such as Meliá, Iberostar, Barceló, Amic Hotels, UR Hotels and Marina Hotels. My compliments to the host of the conference, ESERP Mallorca, for the fantastic organisation and for ensuring everything went smoothly. 

I have been confirmed as an expert panelist for the Social Media session at RDO4, the annual conference of the Resort Development Organisation, the trade association for vacation ownership across Europe. The conference takes place 15th - 17th September 2013 at the Lopesan Baobab Resort in Gran Canaria. For more information and conference registration please visit www.rdoconference.org

I have been confirmed as the keynote speaker for the Hotel ORM Conference in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), which takes place at the ESERP Business School on Thursday 27 June. For more information and conference registration please visit http://eserpblog.com/?p=7940

I just got back from beautiful Palermo (Sicily), where I had the pleasure to teach about 200 tourism students during a weeklong seminar (18-22 February), covering topics such as Positioning, Branding, Revenue Management, Social Media and Vacation Ownership. I'd like to thank Prof. Roberto Lagalla (Rettore Magnifico), Prof. Fabio  Mazzola (Preside della Facoltà di Economia), Prof.ssa Anna Li Donni (Presidente del  Corso di  Laurea in Scienze del  Turismo), Anna Lombardo and Andrea Grotta (Rete Universitaria Mediterranea), and last but not least Prof. Avv. Aurelio Anselmo for the invitation, organisation and the very warm welcome to the Università degli studi di Palermo. http://portale.unipa.it. I have also been lucky enough to discover Palermo's cultural and culinary treasures, and I highly recommend anyone to visit this great city. http://www.turismopalermo.it.