Join Your Fellow Hospitality Professionals Online in New HFTP Community Groups

By: Mark Pate Sr., CHAE, CHTP, MBA, HFTP Worldwide President

Are you looking for that upcoming role to acquire your career upwards where by you want it to go – or maybe looking for to fill a critical role at your organization with the correct individual? Are you trying to solve a seemingly insurmountable difficulty at work – or just thinking if there are other individuals out there having difficulties with an marketplace challenge like you? The greatest respond to frequently lies in creating connections.

As the president of an affiliation, I figured out extended back the worth of receiving concerned in a group of industry experts in the identical sector and area of operate who can share in your trials, tribulations, successes and development as you make your way by a a long time-extensive profession journey. Associations are a fantastic basis for developing these all-essential interactions they provide a great number of opportunities for networking and engagement.

Consider HFTP, for instance – I just joined far more than 6,000 hospitality specialists and stakeholders at HITEC, the major hospitality engineering celebration in the earth, the place I put in various beneficial times attending events, dinners, training sessions and toured the exhibit corridor with colleagues and close friends, each new and outdated. I am also really engaged in my neighborhood HFTP chapter and go to the HFTP Florida Regional conference routinely, which permits me to join with pros in my direct area.

Then, there are all the on line opportunities to have interaction, and with a strong, worldwide membership, that suggests innumerable probable new supporters from all about the planet – and this is exactly where HFTP’s new online Community Teams appear in extremely handy. These community groups allow for you to interact in conversations and Q&A centered on specific segments of the field these kinds of as hotel and club and subjects of expert fascination this kind of as technologies and finance.

Be a part of Your HFTP On the web Neighborhood for Camaraderie, Feedback and Methods in A few Straightforward Ways

Phase 1: Make guaranteed you have obtain on your personal computer and cell phone. To get to your HFTP community teams on on the web, you will have to be logged into your HFTP on line account. Pay a visit to www.hftp.org to produce your account or log in. I also motivate you to download the HFTP Membership & Events app to accessibility the neighborhood groups ideal from your cellular phone! Lookup for the app in the Google Enjoy and Apple shops.

When you have it set up on your cellular phone, select the HFTP Member Application inside the listing of guides to join with other associates in the HFTP Community Teams, control your membership, get the most up-to-date HFTP information, concept inside of the application and extra.

Move 2: E-mail [email protected] to request admission to the HFTP local community group(s) you want to sign up for. Which business-concentrated discussion do you want to be a part of? There are at the moment 3 teams established up for you to pick from: Club Professional Trade, Lodging Finance and Lodging Engineering.

If you are a member of a community HFTP chapter or affiliation advisory council, you will be ready to sign up for all those decide on, invitation-only community teams, as perfectly.

Move 3: Get engaged! At the time you turn out to be a member of your community team of choice, start off connecting. Talk to queries of your fellow hospitality specialists, or lend sage assistance to somebody else. This is your opportunity to get to know quite a few of the specialists performing in the direction of related targets in the excellent hospitality sector.

Hope to see you in the dialogue before long!

Mark Pate Sr., CHAE, CHTP, MBA is the HFTP Global Board President and assistant controller & IT director for Highpointe Hotel Company.