Overview The California Hotel Summit by AHICE puts a Los Angeles hotel-market briefing and a networking gala into one afternoon at the Regent Santa Monica Beach, with speakers from CoStar, HVS, IHG, Delta Air Lines and the W Hollywood on the 2026 program. It is the Los Angeles stop in AHICE's summit series, beside London, Sydney and Perth. AHICE began in 2010 as the Australasian Hotel Industry Conference and Exhibition and runs conferences in Adelaide, Singapore, Christchurch, Honolulu, Tokyo, Fiji and the Maldives. Travel Business Media owns it and publishes HM magazine and the executive travel title Wayfarer, which host the Los Angeles summit. On site In 2026 registration opened at 1:45 p.m., the sessions ran from 2:30 to 4:50, and a gala networking event filled the rest of the evening until 7. The program covered the Los Angeles tourism outlook, a statistical read of the Los Angeles market, hotel technology, a panel of Los Angeles hoteliers, and hotel investment and development. Audience AHICE describes the room as Los Angeles and California's leading hotel owners, operators, consultants and suppliers. About two hours of sessions are followed by a little over two hours of gala networking. Talent and Influencers The 2026 speakers included Michael Stathokostopoulos, senior director of hospitality analytics at CoStar; John Berean, senior vice president at HVS; Dana Debel, managing director of state and local government affairs at Delta Air Lines; Marco Scherer, regional director of operations at IHG Hotels and Resorts; Nick Rimedio, general manager of W Hollywood; Gregory Day, managing director of the Malibu Beach Inn; and FOX News travel expert Lee Abbamonte, with travel host Michaela Guzy presenting. Panelists from Wyndham, RREAF Holdings, Marcus and Millichap and A-1 Hospitality Group joined them. Brand presence Sponsors sit in four tiers. In 2026 IHG was principal partner, PurchasePlus platinum, HUB OS, Talk Agency and Travel + Leisure gold, and Infor and Aristara silver.