Making an exhibition

Hospitality Services, an event management and publications company, was launched in 1993 by Nouhad Dammous and his daughter Joumana Salame. The company’s first event was HORECA, a trade exhibition for professionals in the hospitality sector. Hospitality Services, which today has a team of 30 employees, created a trade publication, Hospitality News, a few years after the first HORECA when Salame says they felt there was a need for a voice of “the industry”. The company has also diversified its portfolio, from the business to business activity of HORECA and Hospitality News to consumer activities, developing a series of exhibitions such as The Garden Show and Spring Festival, Beirut Cooking Festival and the franchise of Salon Du Chocolat, as well as magazines such as Taste and Flavors and Lebanon Traveler. In light of HORECA 2016, set to run from April 5-8 at the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center (BIEL) Executive