Hotel Association of Canada (HAC) Strategic Partners are leading organizations and companies involved in a wide range of industry sectors and activities. Although these areas of activities may differ, they are all committed to their work with the lodging industry.

Benefits
Participating in select HAC activities provides the Strategic Partners with the unique occasion of forging a broad network of national and international contacts. In the process, Partners gain an opportunity to share their expertise, work closely with their lodging customers, acquire valuable insight into the latest industry developments and work with HAC and its Members in providing solutions to the industry's challenges and priorities.

HAC Strategic Partners

The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) is a not-for-profit association providing executive-level global education to business travel leaders in 50 countries. ACTE was the first organization in the business travel industry to recognize Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a key issue, including holding the industry's first 'carbon low' global education conference in 2006.

Based on the Green Key Eco-Rating Program ACTE and HAC have developed a Checklist for Corporate Travel Managers to use in assessing environmental practices at lodging facilities which is available complimentary to ACTE members at www.acte.org




The single source for Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Interac Direct Payment processing. Today, thousands of Canadian companies like yours rely on us to provide products and services essential to their continued growth and profitability. Our business focuses on Merchant Solutions - delivering much more than just convenient, secure payment options.

Our leading-edge technical capabilities and vast industry experience enables us to deliver an exceptional and innovative suite of electronic payment opportunities to you. No matter where your customers are, we offer the best possible business-building options from point-of-sale terminals to gift card programs and best-in-class Internet payment solutions that will keep you connected.




HLT Advisory Inc. provides specialized consulting and support services to the Canadian and international hospitality, leisure and tourism industries  including gaming, lodging, travel/tourism, recreation, sport, entertainment and public assembly venues.



Lodging Econometrics (LE) is the foremost source for global lodging real estate intelligence for hotel franchise companies, ownership and investor groups, management firms, consultants, lenders, advisors, and vendors. LE’s Canadian Capstone Report provides an overview of the three stages of the construction pipeline, the current census, past New Supply additions and a Three-Year Forecast for New Hotel Openings for every market, by chain scale and for the leading global and Canadian hotel companies and brands. LE also produces Development Pipeline Reports for every Canadian city, with summaries by market and tract, by chain scale and hotel size. They also include all individual project records, with complete contact information for the developer, the latest project start and completion dates. For lodging valuations, LE can supply the latest Sales Comps with details for both the seller and buyer groups. Whether making go/no-go decisions about development, branding, acquisition/disposition or other strategic assessments, LE has the market intelligence to help clients sustain their success, regardless of the economic cycle.




Meetings & Incentive Travel (M&IT) is Canada’s leading publisher and event producer for the Canadian MC&IT marketplace. Our parent company, Rogers Media, is Canada’s largest publisher, multi-media and communications company. Rogers Media, formerly known as Maclean Hunter, has been in the publishing business for over 100 years.

The Hotel Association of Canada (HAC) has partnered M&IT to promote the HAC’s Green Key Eco-Rating program to the meetings and events industry. This partnership will promote HAC’s Green Key designation for environmentally conscious hotels in Canada in the annual M&IT Buyers’ Guide and the Green Key designation for both Canadian and American hotels on the M&IT meetingscanada.com website.




PKF Consulting, with offices in Toronto and Vancouver, was established in Canada in 1970 and provides a comprehensive range of services to the hospitality and tourism industries across the country. Our clients include the largest and the smallest of hotels and hotel companies, owners, operators and lenders as well as a broad cross section of both private sector and public sector clients. The two Canadian consulting offices and our ten U.S. consulting offices focus totaling on serving the needs of the hospitality and tourism industry in North America and are supported by similar consulting practices in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and Caribbean.




The Hotel Association of Canada (HAC) and the Quebec Hotel Association (QHA) join their voices to encourage hoteliers to reduce their ecological footprint by using one of the two programs offered in Québec, Green Key or RéserVert. Launched in November 2007, RéserVert is a sustainable development (society, economy and environment) recognition program based on continuous training and personalized support. It does require the active involvement of the entire team in order to maintain and increase the number of actions every year. The RéserVert program helps to increase a hotel’s Green Key rating.

 

For more information on any of our Strategic Partners, or on becoming a Strategic Partner, please call us at (613) 237-7149.