Welcome Messages
CEO COMMITTEE MEETING 2025
We are delighted to host this year's GHA CEO meeting at our newly-opened Corinthia Brussels in Europe's capital city!
The restoration of this Brussels icon has taken us several years and we are proud of the result, and delighted to be able to showcase the new hotel to what is certainly one of the most discerning of audiences! The project has brought the best out of our group, as investors, owners, developers and of course, operators.
Beyond our rooms, we also have two of Belgium's leading Michelin-star chefs, heading their wonderful culinary teams, who will ensure you have some memorable food experiences as well.
We are proud to be a shareholder in GHA and to contribute to the alliance's continued success; and I am happy to have had the opportunity to act as GHA Chairman for the last couple of years during this period of rapid growth. With so many new brands joining, I know we are expecting to welcome several new CEOs to Brussels, and I hope you will immediately feel the fun and collaborative spirit that the alliance continues to foster.
I look forward to welcoming you all to Brussels - it's a vastly underrated city, and we will do our best to show you why!"
Simon Naudi
Group CEO Corinthia Hotels
GHA Chairman
"Further Together"
We're looking forward to welcoming you to our 2025 GHA CEO meeting in Europe's capital city, the home of moules-frites, monastic beer, Tintin, Hercule Poirot, Kevin De Bruyne, Eddy Merckx and - most importantly - the beautiful new Corinthia Brussels!
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Last year we celebrated GHA's 20th anniversary together in Tokyo; and this year we mark 15 years since the launch of GHA DISCOVERY back in 2010. Starting with less than one million members across ten brands back then, we now share over 30 million members across nearly 50 fabulous brands, and approaching 1,000 hotels, enabling us to compete with the major loyalty players in our sector.
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And with so many new brands joining in the coming months, we are poised to grow even more, and thus the theme for this year's meeting theme is "Further Together" as we welcome many new CEOs to our group and look to leverage our scale and strong relationships to drive more shared success. Indeed our alliance is built on those personal connections, and so our time together in Brussels is not just to talk business, but also to create and foster friendships that will hopefully endure for many years to come.
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Thank you to Simon Naudi and the team at Corinthia for courageously hosting us so soon after the hotel's opening!
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A bientôt / Tot snel !
Christopher Hartley
Chief Executive Officer
Global Hotel Alliance
