CSI Europe provides a gateway for the cruise interiors supply chain to meet with some of the most esteemed cruise lines, designers, and shipyards, and the essential cruise brand voices joining the first CSI Europe conference taking place in Hamburg include Gabi Haupt, Director of Cruise Experience – Riverside Luxury Cruises, Julie Higgins, Director of Hotel Operations & Sustainability Officer – Uniworld Boutique River Cruises and Alejandra Obregon, Senior Director, Architecture & Hotel Design – The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection. They will be joined by their peers from shipyards Meyer Werft, Neptun Werft and Lloyd Werft, design studios JOI-Design, Allstars Design, De Jorio Design International and SMC Design, plus management companies Roland Berger and Columbia. More speakers to be announced in the coming days.
Other sessions on the interiors track include Sensory layering: Enhancing guest experience through emotional connection and Making your market: designing interiors for regional markets. Hospitality@CSI features its own content track, providing visitors with the opportunity to engage their senses with Sensory layering: Enhancing guest experience through emotional connection. This session will trace the customer journey through the five senses, mapping the process of shaping customer experience from concept through to the final thoughtful details.
The Sustainable Design Summit features at CSI Europe once again, with a dynamic Working Group shaped by visitors and participants, From ideas to impact: It starts with you! Attendees are invited to arrive equipped with their own real-world examples, which will be evaluated alongside case studies presented by the session leaders. Sustainability continues to evolve across hospitality interior design and this presentation, workshop and networking lunch provides the forum for design minds to grow their own understanding and practice.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on Hotel Designs.
