{"id":970,"date":"2017-03-15T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T02:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sepiadesign.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:40:59","slug":"schmidt-offers-an-irreverent-look-at-the-hotel-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/schmidt-offers-an-irreverent-look-at-the-hotel-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt Offers an Irreverent Look at the Hotel Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Singapore, 15 March 2017<\/strong> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Founder and Managing Director of <em>Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/em>, <strong>Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP<\/strong>, presented an entertaining segment entitled <em>&#8220;Now For Something Completely Different:&nbsp; An Irreverent Look at the Hotel Industry&#8221;<\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/hicapconference.com\/hicap-update\/\"><strong>HICAP (Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific) Update<\/strong><\/a> held on 15 March 2017 at the <em>Pan Pacific Singapore<\/em>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schmidt provided an irreverent look at the region&#8217;s hotel industry to over 300 industry leaders.  His presentation included screening three satirical animated videos revolving around hotel product development, hotel acquisitions, and the industry&#8217;s quest to create <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SphVi4JtG6U\">the most efficient and cost-effective hotel product<\/a>.&nbsp; Schmidt remarked, <em>&#8220;Sometimes we need to step back and laugh at ourselves,&#8221;<\/em> relative to the hotel industry&#8217;s pursuit of gaining a competitive advantage and outdoing one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:\u00a0 Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP <\/strong>is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\"><strong>Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/strong><\/a>, an award-winning design consultancy specializing in creative and sustainable design solutions for the hospitality industry.\u00a0 Schmidt is also author and illustrator of the award-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kakibubu.com\"><em>Bumbling Traveller Adventure Series<\/em><\/a> which seeks to promote environmental and cultural awareness through entertaining mysteries and adventures, which was recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) through a 2010 Chapter Citation.<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore, 15 March 2017 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Founder and Managing Director of Sepia Design Consultants Limited, Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP, presented an entertaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[76,52,56,19],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotel-design","category-news","tag-hicap","tag-hotel-design","tag-sepia-design-consultants-limited","tag-thomas-schmidt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgwalJ-fE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}