MEMBERSHIP
In order to keep your business bustling, you need to form the right partnerships. You need to develop the right contacts to gain an edge. You need to walk away from an industry meeting with truly fresh ideas. You need to meet people who will enhance your business and your career. You need HSMAI. HSMAI provides the resources, knowledge and networks you need to make a critical connection with your customers.
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Membership Benefits
The Benefits of HSMAI Membership Webinar
What are some of the benefits of an HSMAI membership? Are you a new member, or just considering joining? Take a tour of the resources available to "Members Only" and see how your HSMAI membership can increase your on-the-job effectiveness, your own value to your employer, and your company's bottom line. Click here for a guide to all that is waiting for you here!
Resources
Membership in HSMAI brings access to industry news and trends, sales and marketing research and new customer databases. Among the tools that will keep you connected:
- HSMAI Marketing Review - Enjoy a high quality, quarterly magazine featuring in-depth information and columns on best practices, web marketing, international affairs and future forecasting.
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NEW! With the Winter 2008 issue of the magazine, HSMAI is introducing a new member benefit: the HSMAI Marketing Review e-dition, an electronic edition of the HSMAI Marketing Review, produced in conjunction with Nxtbook Media, that will be available to all members in addition to the regular print version. For a limited time, all members of the industry may access this e-dition as a sample of this new benefit of being a member of HSMAI. Industry professionals can click on the link below to access the issue.
HSMAI Marketing Review e-dition - HSMAI Web site - Members receive exclusive, targeted information and offers in the Members Only section. Additional features include daily industry news updates, searchable chapter and national educational events, job posting and searches in the Career Center.
- HSMAI Update - Each member receives bi-weekly newsletters providing the latest industry news and a quarterly newsletter featuring developments within the association and new member benefits.
- Foundation Publications - Receive discounts on a selection of original textbooks and studies geared specifically for the hospitality industry.
- Chapter Newsletters - Get the latest news and developments in your region.
- Econnect Resource Clearinghouse - This brand new program serves as a repository for information and research about hospitality industry sales and marketing topics. This invaluable, web-based program contains resources on every aspect of the industry.
Knowledge
Truly, gathering knowledge is an ongoing process, and it is necessary for success. Becoming a member of HSMAI will further your knowledge of the industry with these tools:
- Chapter Educational and Peer Interactive Sessions - Provide educational and networking forums with peers on a local level, within a wide range of subjects and featuring renowned industry speakers.
- CHME, CRME and CHSE Certification - An opportunity to receive professional certification to signify your expertise.
- Foundation Scholarships - Available for students studying hospitality and tourism.
- HSMAI University - HSMAI University is the organization's most comprehensive and ambitious initiative in the realm of education for sales and marketers of hospitality and travel to date, entailing a wide-ranging schedule of course offerings and learning experiences in public venue, private label and online formats.
- HSMAI Travel Awards Case Studies - Learn from the industry’s most effective advertising, public relations and web site campaigns. Winning entries of the HSMAI travel awards are featured annually in the winter issue of HSMAI’s Marketing Review.
Networks
You need to know the right people and HSMAI is your connection to the industry. Meet with industry insiders through these networking opportunities:
- HSMAI Adrian Advertising, Public Relations and Web Marketing Awards Competition Dinner - Annual dinner and incredible networking opportunity to honor the "best" in hospitality and tourism advertising, public relations and web design.
- HSMAI’s Affordable Meetings® National, Mid-America & West - The industry's leading two day, regional and national meeting planner trade shows, with a 3:1 planner to exhibitor ratio.
- Member Contact - When you join HSMAI, you’ll be able to expand your contacts locally, nationally and internationally. From local chapter events to a web database of members around the world, the member network allows you to share ideas, find help and pick the brains of the industry’s best minds.
- Member Discount Programs - As an HSMAI member, you’ll receive special rates on everything from booth space at our trade shows to your broadcast, fax and email programs with HSMAI Affinity Partners, as well as access to our new Member2Member Discount Program.
New Executive Elite Membership
The new Executive Elite HSMAI membership category is exclusive to qualified senior executives in the hospitality industry. Benefits include:
- Complimentary by invitation only attendance at our Executive T.H.I.N.K. programs
- Choice of complimentary attendance at one of our HSMAI Strategy Conferences on subjects like Travel Internet Marketing, Revenue Management, Hotel Sales, Industry Trends, etc.
- Inclusion in our select mailing list for our special industry white papers – like the newest DeMystifying Distribution
- Monthly Executive Elite Update from HSMAI CEO and the HSMAI Executive Board on relevant industry subjects
- Quarterly distribution of HSMAI’s Marketing Review magazine
- Special web access to HSMAI Foundation’s eConnect research and information online repository
- Other special events and benefits tailored to senior industry executives Introductory price: $650.00 per year*
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*HSMAI members receive credit for current membership dues when upgrading to the new Executive Elite membership category
