The Hotel Investment Conference – South Asia or HICSA could not take place due to the pandemic, this year, the 16th edition of the event, organised by Hotelivate will take place in New Delhi on April 6-7, 2021. Manav Thadani, Founder Chairman of Hotelivate throws light on this year’s event. Talking about the challenges of organising a hybrid event, Thadani said, “Since the scare of Covid is still around we have planned to reduce participants to 50 percent of the usual HICSA traffic and therefore we are expecting 250-275 participants physically. We have reduced numbers all across. Instead of 90 plus speakers, we have 45-47 speakers, sponsors have also reduced, media has been reduced and even the Hotelivate team participants are less. We are however hoping to replace some of this with virtual participants. Since this is a paid conference we do not know what the real impact on the same will be till we go live. One of the things we did with this HICSA was to reduce it to a one-day working event.”
