Our 2022 speakers - Forum HOTel&SPA Paris - english

Our 2022 speakers

Roger Allen

Group CEO of RLA Global – USA – Austria – UAE
Known for his no-nonsense approach to the industry and the business world. He was a contributing author to the book “Hotel & Resorts Valuation–An Investor‘s Guide” and is a popular public speaker. Roger is also a Board of Director of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC).
Roger is the Group CEO of RLA Global, a recognized global advisory to investors, owners, developers and management companies. Specialized in hospitality, leisure, recreation, wellbeing and tourism related to hotels, resorts, residential, mixed-use, healthcare, active living communities and destination tourism developments.
RLA Global works closely with the public and private sector in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa to provide conceptual planning, financial analysis and asset management of complex properties such as resorts, retreats and destination assets.
For more than 20 years, Roger has been working on multiple levels of project developments in the hospitality and leisure industries, developing a singular expertise in leisure projects: from the complexity of project planning through implementation and operations.

Jean Guy de Gabriac 

Founder  – TipTouch

Jean-Guy de Gabriac, CEO TIP TOUCH, award-winning Spa-Wellness advisor & educator, designs best-selling Signature massages ; enhances Guest experience with the “HOW of WOW!” ; and chairs the Global Career Development Initiative (Global Wellness Institute).

Dr Franz Linser

Linser Hospitality  Austria

Franz looks back on 20 years of experience in the health and wellness industries. He established Austria’s biggest wellness cluster and is a passionate and renowned strategist and mastermind in pioneering modern day wellness concepts. He is the Founder and CEO of Linser Hospitality, an internationally successful consulting firm based in Innsbruck, Austria; he is also member of the Board of Directors of the Global Spa & Wellness Summit (NewYork), an official Judge of the World Spa Awards (London), the Head of official judge of the World Spa Awards and the Manager of the Jury of  the European Spa Awards (Vienna).Today, Franz is a sought after speaker on all major spa and wellness congresses Worldwide his passion and innovative visions are widely appreciated in the industry.

Jean-Luc Pleuvry

General Manager of Operations at Relias Thalasso Group – France

After studying Management, Mr. Pleuvry turned to the Hotel, Tourism and Leisure industry. After 3 years spent in the 4 corners of the world at the Club Méditerranéen, he joined the Accor group in the West Indies.  In 2000, he took over the management of the THALAZUR Antibes site where I stayed for 7 years.

In 2007, following the reorganization decided by the President of the THALAZUR brand, he accepted the challenge as Operations Director for the 6 THALAZUR sites.

Today, he is CEO of Thalazur and its 9 French destinations which spread over the 3 French coasts.

Cornelia Kausch

Managing Director & Leadership Coach – EMCCC INSEAD – Germany

When it comes to leadership, Cornelia has walked the talk. After serving as a  Managing Director/CEO of various international hotels for over two decades, she started her coaching and consulting business in 2005, empowering leaders & their teams (in the hospitality world and beyond) to face turbulent times head-on.
Throughout her career, Cornelia has always embodied a “people first” approach and is a firm believer in the value of a service mindset in any area of business.

Laura Grazioli

Co-founder & Director of World Spa Organization and
General Manager of LIFEXCELLENCE – SPA YOUR BUSINESS – Italy

Graduated in classical studies and with a Ba Hons in Business at the Anglia Ruskin University of Cambridge – UK, she initially works as a consultant for a well-known consulting firm in the strategic and organizational field in Milan, perfecting her managerial skills.

She builds her career in a variety of roles and industries, in companies of different sizes, where she was not just the admin but also gatekeeper, technology whiz, bookkeeper and marketing guru. She is not only used to wearing many hats, she sincerely enjoys it.

She is currently General Manager of LIFEXCELLENCE – SPA YOUR BUSINESS –  Italian company leader in services for the Spa & Beauty Industry – and Finance & Marketing Director of World Spa Organization, a large community that connects the players of the Spa & Beauty market at an international level.

Raffaella Dallarda

Italian from Milan, Ambassador of Spas in Italy, she is a Specialist of Wellbeing and she is professionally a Naturopath & a Physiotherapist.


Ms Dallarda is an AUDITOR of SPAS, Wellness & SPA Blogger, with the Blog www.inspatime.com and SoMeVlogger of SPA, through the Master of “Management & Marketing of Health Spa”, at the LUISS University in Rome.

From 2021, she is Spa Blogger of WORLD WELLNESS WEEKEND and of SUSTAINABLE SPA ASSOCIATION.

She have the ability and the expertise to represent the PR and communication services of Wellbeing, SPA & Hospitality.

Founder of INSPATOUR 2020 & 2021, a journey of enhancement of Italian SPAs in the world, through the 20 regions of Italy and the 5 keys to well-being, Raffaella offer strategic consulting services to Spas & Wellness Destinations, Beauty Farm, Spa Industry, thermal centers.