Roger Allen, RLA Global Group’s CEO had the honour to have a one-to-one discussion with Club Med's President Henri Giscard d'Estaing at the International Hospitality Investment Forum (IHIF) session on: Reinventing Travel and the Resort Company.
Covering a wide range of topics including:
Henri was quite vocal about the economic, social and cultural importance of tourism and, what he felt was the lacklustre support received from the French government.
“We are probably not vocal enough about what tourism and hospitality bring to the society and what it brings to the global economy and to countries that depend on it. We should formulate what we believe should be the right support from the government.”- Henri Giscard d’Estaing, CEO of Club Med.
There were many takeaway insights from the discussion but what really resonated was his strategy for getting through, as he called it ‘the mother of all crises’:
Further insights from this one-to-one can be found at International Hospitality Investment Forum (IHIF) and Hospitality Insights.
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