Hospitality Gross sales and Advertising and marketing Affiliation Worldwide (HSMAI) is happy to announce the Robert A. “Bob” Gilbert Award for Profession Achievement in Industrial Technique, a brand new pinnacle honor celebrating leaders whose careers have formed the way forward for hospitality gross sales, advertising, and income technique. Named in tribute to Robert A. “Bob” Gilbert, who served as HSMAI’s President and CEO from 1995 to 2024, the Gilbert Award acknowledges enduring management, innovation, and advocacy throughout the business disciplines of hospitality. Nominations for the 2026 recognition are open now by means of December 15, 2025.
The Gilbert Award honors the visionary leaders who, like Bob himself, have remodeled how our trade approaches business technique. This award celebrates people whose affect extends past enterprise success, recognizing those that have elevated individuals, concepts, and practices that form the way forward for hospitality. Brian Hicks, President & CEO of HSMAI
The award underscores HSMAI’s dedication to recognizing excellence throughout disciplines, open to hoteliers, trade companions, and educators. Nominees might signify a single business self-discipline or show cross-functional affect by means of their management and achievements.
Recipients shall be honored through the HSMAI Adrian Awards Celebration and at HSMAI’s Industrial Technique Convention, signature annual occasions celebrating excellence in hospitality, the place friends and leaders from around the globe collect to highlight innovation and achievement.
The Gilbert Award represents the subsequent evolution of HSMAI’s legacy of recognition. As a part of this transition, HSMAI Americas has retired its 4 legacy profession achievement awards—the Albert E. Koehl Award, Winthrop W. Grice Award, Vanguard Award, and the HSMAI Award for Profession Achievement in Gross sales—whereas inducting all previous honorees into the HSMAI Corridor of Fame, established in 1968. This transformation unites a long time of excellence underneath one world recognition that displays the interconnected nature of at present’s business technique disciplines.
To submit a nomination for the Robert A. “Bob” Gilbert Award for Profession Achievement in Industrial Technique, go to right here.
About HSMAI
HSMAI is a world group of gross sales, advertising, and income administration professionals representing all segments of the hospitality trade. With a robust give attention to schooling, HSMAI leads the way in which in figuring out and speaking developments within the hospitality trade. Working as a number one voice for each hospitality and for gross sales, advertising, and income administration disciplines, HSMAI connects its members with prospects. Based in the US in 1927, HSMAI is membership group comprising 5,000 members from 35 nations and chapters worldwide. Join with HSMAI at hsmai.org.
