NEW YORK CITY— Tourism and Terrorism: A Retrospective and Prospective View will top the agenda of an upcoming Cornell University School of Hotel Administration Strategy Conference here early next month. In a conference slated to take place at The Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue March 7, the subject of the lodging business following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 will be broached by Cathy A. Enz, Ph.D., executive director of the Hotel School’s Center for Hospitality Research. Moderating the session will be Dean David W. Butler and Associate Dean Thomas P. Cullen. Discussion topics will include: • Demand, supply and macro-economic effects of 9/11; • Distortion in demand-performance patterns; • A general managers’ study dealing with how thinking has changed as a result of 9/11; and • Liability, litigation, safety and security issues. Also on tap will be a look at asset-valuations in the wake of 9/11. Panelists for the day’s presentations are scheduled to include Bjorn Hanson of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Michael Silberstein of The New York Palace Hotel, Simon Turner of Hotel Capital Advisers, Cecelia Fanelli, Esq. of Rosenman & Colin LLP, Manny Papier, formerly Deputy Chief of Staff to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and Israel Perlov of Global Security International. Further information and registration details may be obtained by accessing 2002 Industry Strategy Conferences at www.hotelschool.cornell.edu.
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