HOSPITALITY CHAIN.COM
The beginning of our creation came to life from a 50th birthday present in 2005.
The founder Ian Sutherland from Melbourne Australia was asked by his wife Katherine how he wanted to celebrate his birthday.
After much thought Ian’s reply was that he would love to go to the 10th Anniversary of the world horse racing cup in Dubai.
Ian along with 5 of his friends arranged the trip of a lifetime.
Dubai at the time was creating a tourist mecca of hospitality, business centres and attractions that had never been seen before.
During the trip Ian could see that this vibrant Middle East city was all about attracting tourism, hospitality and business well after the oil had gone.
Ian and Katherine’s working careers had similar paths in hospitality, event management, international trade, and in the domestic and international exports of perishable food and beverages. They had worked with many international visitors and expatriates over years and from all walks of life. They were aware of the fact that regardless of culture or nationality – the one common theme to ‘welcome’ was to ‘meet, eat and greet’.
People love to try the various foods, beverages, cooking methods and styles. In their travels, people including expatriates often miss the delights of home and they also miss the food and beverage favorites of other regions after they return home.
Trading of goods has always been a fascinating way of life for centuries and continues even more so today with the current food and hospitality phenomenon. On the journey home Ian could not stop thinking about how people find all the delights of the culinary world. The usual answer was – the internet – but after months of internet surfing and research he could not find any dedicated one stop shop for the worlds finest food, boutique beverages and hospitality equipment, that also included hotel supplies and services such as waste management and logistics services providers
The Hospitality Chain concept was born as a free for all to use global suppliers directory showcasing premier and unique products that are not commonly found at supermarkets and convenience stores.
The concept of hospitality encompasses a huge and diverse range of services, among these are leisure tourism and transportation. In order to provide our global audience a full one stop Hospitality platform, the natural progression was to include suppliers and operators of leisure, tourism and logistics. 2015 saw the introduction of a fully operational and detailed freight and logistics portal, and in 2017 we added global leisure activities and tour operators.
Whilst these two portals are found on the hospitality chain website they can also be found under their own URLs as worldfreightdirect.com and leisurechain.com
Leisurechain.com is the world’s No.1 adventure supplier’s platform featuring tailor made solutions for fun, excitement and special getaway experiences like no other. The diverse range of unique activities listed here will satisfy the adventure needs of both young and old.
World Freight Direct.Com provide global logistics solutions for your entire air sea road and rail transport needs. Featuring the world’s most up to date list of international & coastal shipping lines, air cargo carriers, freight forwarders and customs agents, warehousing, personal effects removalists and parecel post carriers.
Let the Journey Begin
Our purpose is to provide the world with a dedicated one stop shop for fine food, hospitality, leisure tourism and logistics. Products, service providers and tourism operators are featured within their releveant categories and geographic locations. Additional hospitality related features include specialty food stores, celebrity and holistic chefs biographies, uniuqe recipes, global expat clubs, hospitality expos, global hospitality and event management courses, cooking, barista and sommelier classes.
Fine wine and premium beer enthusiast can browse our dedicated liquor stores and distributors portal to find links to the world’s best growers and producers along with the finest whiskeys, sake, ciders and spirits. Additionally liquor stores from around the globe can freely, and in their own time, conveniently search for new products to place on their shelves.
Our Mission
To create the World’s first dedicated Global online expo featuring the finest premier, gourmet, artisan, holistic and hard to find foods, including non-alcoholic, alcoholic and boutique beverages. To showcase products that are not commonly found on the shelves of supermarkets and convenience stores. To become a simple search for premier hospitality equipment, apparel, catering, event management, hospitality courses and education. To become a platform that not only connects business to business but also provides useful information such as articles, coming global expos, chef’s biographies and recipes. The founders of Hospitality Chain saw the need to create a dedicated non for-profit charities portal featuring, food banks, soup kitchens, homeless and refuge shelters, mental health and well being, and community based non for-profit organizations.
The world of Hospitality is broad and relies and engages daily with the interconnected industries of Leisure / Tourism / Freight / Logistics, with each having a huge responsibility to its waste control and management. The founders of Hospitalitychain.com understood that it was not possible to have these 4 massive interconnected industries on one platform. After years of research, development, branding and IP protection we now believe we have met our mission to become an asset to the worldwide web by providing a simple search for these 4 interconnected industries. All 4 platforms can be entered via their own website and once you enter one platform you can simply click from one to the other.
” Best of all free and simple to use “
DISCLAIMER: hospitalitychain.com is a global directory featuring premium suppliers of fine food, beverages, hospitality supplies and services. We do not sell products on behalf of featured suppliers. Sales between featured suppliers and buyers are made directly between each other.
Suppliers who are interested in being featured on our global directory pay annual or monthly subscription fee for advertising their products on our directory.
Any alcohol purchased from this site will only be shipped within Australia, unless an export license is provided
