Cristiano has more than 15 years of experience in the Hotel, Tourism, and Real-Estate industry, conducting and supervising more than 250 studies for hotels and resorts throughout South America, Trinidad & Tobago, Angola, and Portugal. He worked for four years on tourism projects for HVS, coordinating the elaboration of regional tourism development plans financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). He is a permanent columnist for Hotelnews magazine and he has also published several reports on the tourism-real estate market and co-written the Brazilian Hotel Market Overview (HotelInvest / HVS). Cristiano owns the MRICS title from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), world leader entity in real state professionals qualification and has a Production Engineering degree from the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo (POLI-USP) and a post-graduate degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and has also completed a Real Estate-Hotel Finance course at Cornell University. For more information contact Cristiano at cvasques@hvs.com.

Pedro Cypriano, Consulting Director of HVS Sao Paulo, has extensive knowledge of the Latin American hotel market, as well as relevant experience in projects in Europa, Asia, and Africa. Over the past 10 years, Cypriano has been involved in more than 250 projects in global hospitality and tourism consultancies, and distinguished research institutes. As an executive of HVS, Pedro has led development plans for hotel chains, brand & management selection and contract negotiations, structuration of mixed-use complexes, business plans for investment funds, as well as hundreds of market studies, valuation and feasibility analysis for hotels and resorts. He is the author of the book "Hotel Development in Brazil: market overview and perspectives", published by Senac, and guest panelist of leading universities. Pedro has a MBA from Insper Business School, a Master degree in Hotel Development from University of Alicante (Spain), a specialization in Finance from Saint Paul Business School and a Bachelor degree in Tourism from University of Sao Paulo (USP). Contact: pcypriano@hvs.com.