Seminar Series of the Faculty of Applied Sciences – Fall 2023– 5. Seminar

Dear Students of the Faculty of Applied Sciences,

You are kindly informed to welcome Hotel Management students Ece Varnalı, Haania Ahmad, Yağmur Karali and İlayda Tunalı who participated in the Smith Travel Research (STR) Market Study Competition held in Paris, as the guest speakers of the seminar series.

Date      : Thursday, 21 December 2023

Time      : 14:40-15:30

Place     : AB-3 / Law Auditorium

STR Inc. is a member of Co Star group and offers insightful competitive data for the hotel industry all over the world. The company organizes a competition every year for higher education students to develop their awareness of the industry dynamics and improve their knowledge and skills on the hotel analytics. This year for the second time, our Hotel Management students represented our university at this exciting event in Europe. Senior students Ece Varnalı, Haania Ahmad, Yağmur Karali, and junior student İlayda Tunalı worked for several weeks for this competition as a part of the Managing Revenue and Distribution Channels in Hotels course. They prepared a very detailed market study project on the destination of Paris under their advisor, Asst. Prof. Dr. H. Kader Şanlıöz-Özgen, and presented their study before a jury with academic and professional partners in Europe. This year event was organized online by Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL) on 3 November 2023 with the participation of nine universities in total from various countries of Europe.

In the seminar class, our Hotel Management Department students Ece Varnalı, Haania Ahmad, Yağmur Karali, and İlayda Tunalı, who participated in the STR competition, will present on "Market Study for Paris" in the Seminar course.