Agnès Blanch, jury of Hostelco Live Hotel 2020
HOSTELCO, the lounge dedicated to the equipment and machinery for the hostelry and collectivities, will enable ‘HOSTELCO Live Hotel’, a space with the recreation of a hotel and its different rooms, such as suites, rooms, a wellness or an office. The most representative professional associations and institutions in this area support this initiative, which aims to enhance the contribution of interior design to the success of a tourist establishment.
Aware of the prominence that decoration is acquiring in the customer experience, the HOSTELCO lounge will enable a new exhibition area with its own personality, called Atmosphere, dedicated exclusively to the interior design of hotels, restaurants, cafes and other spaces of the Horeca channel. Atmoshere will also be the framework of the new experimental space, called ‘HOSTELCO Live Hotel’, which will host the recreation of a hotel. The interior design projects that will be carried out at HOSTELCO Live Hotel will be signed by the architects and design studios selected among all the participants by a jury of experts. The deadline for the delivery of the different proposals concludes on September 30.
The jury will integrate outstanding representatives of the main associations of the tourism and hosterly sector that support HOSTELCO Live Hotel, as the president of the General Council of Official Associations of Interior Decorators and Designers, Teresa Casas Cornellà; the general secretary of the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodations and of his Technological Institute of Hotel Management CEHAT - ITH,, Ramón Estalella; the general secretary of the Confederation of Hosterly of Spain, CEHE, Emilio Gallego; the interior designer and member of the Board of the Interdisciplinary Association of Space Design, Arquinfad, Agnès Blanch; the head of the Technical Cabinet at the General Council of Technical Architecture of Spain, Juan López-Asiain; and the expert in hotels and influencer, Marcos Toscani.
The names of the authors of the selected projects will be announced on October 30.