Beating boredom

Vienna. Ferdinand Raimund and Johann Nestroy, both very successful Viennese farce writers from the 19th century, would take pleasure in it: Roland Blimlinger, being the designated Superintendent of the 7th District in Vienna, regularlyreceives complaints from citizens. The latest strange one refers to a certain "hourly hotel" called 25hours … The well-behaved Viennese are now requiring the removal the hotel from this top location in Vienna …

Berlin. Boutique hotels are substantially more complicated to develop and operate than the standardised products of the big chains. In their niche and with a growing, if also narrow target group, smaller groups in this area have nevertheless found a permanent position in the meantime and they operate economically successfully as two Boutique CEOs pointed out convincingly at the 8th "ITB Hospitality Day" at the ITB Berlin. Christoph Hoffmann, CEO of the German theme and design hotel group The 25hours Hotel Company, and his Asian colleague, Loh Lik Peng from the Unlisted Collection in Singapore took the floor for 60 minutes and proved: They are following a global trend absolutely independently of each other - that of the cosmopolitan individualists.