NEW YORK CITY-Hospitality insiders will cover the fundamental parts of this growing sector at Thursday’s RealShare HOTELS 2011. The annual conference, through a series of moderated panels, will bring together experts in the industry who will delve into the most important topics in the Hospitality space, from capital availability to who’s building and where.

This year’s conference will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Hilton New York Hotel at 1335 Avenue of the Americas.

The morning panels include “Economic Forecast: Markets on the Rise, Markets to Avoid, and Where It’s All Heading.” Geoffrey Davis, president of HREC Investment Advisors, will moderate this panel, which features speakers J.P. Ford, senior VP at Lodging Econometrics; Jan Freitag, senior VP, global development at STR and Ross Woods, principal at Hotel Investment Strategies.