Profile

Marilyn McHugh

Vice-President, Global Hospitality Events
Questex Hospitality + Travel Group

Marilyn McHugh,CHA, Director of Global Hospitality Events for Questex Hospitality + Travel, is responsible for the overall management and development of Questex-produced events globally including the International Hotel Investment Forum, North America Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference and International Hotel Investment Forum Asia Pacific, among others. 

McHugh, who brings more than a quarter century of hospitality experience to her position, earlier served Wyndham Worldwide and its predecessors, Cendant Corporation and Hospitality Franchise Systems, for 18 years in key corporate and brand marketing roles.

As Wyndham Hotel Group’s Vice President of B2B Marketing & Communications, she created a global business-to-business marketing plan and established long-term sales strategies for the company’s 12 lodging brands.  She also supervised the Global Sales team and managed trade shows and sales operations, training and communications.

Among her accomplishments there, McHugh developed and launched an online directory for meeting planners, championed a social media marketing campaign for travel management companies, implemented an online specialist program for travel agents and led automation of the request-for-proposal process.

Prior to joining Questex, McHugh was Brand Director for UBM Live, where she led a business unit responsible for organizing several of the world’s largest cruise industry exhibitions and conferences, managing the marketing team, setting strategies and implementing social media initiatives to drive brand revenue.

McHugh is a magna cum laude graduate of Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, N.J., where she received a bachelor’s degree in hospitality and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Hospitality.  She earned the Certified Hotel Administration designation from the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute.