Dear Readers/Users,
From today’s issue on, hospitalityInside.com is exclusively there for YOU – the subscribers of our online magazine. This is your chance to actively participate in building up this young portal and contribute to the issues that are brought up here! In future, we will inform you each Friday anew. You will, of course, receive breaking news immediately and via extra e-mail.
hospitalityInside is now two weeks young – so to speak, it’s still a “baby”. We will be feeding it regularly with new articles and current news and hope that it will not only gain weight quickly, but also gain in importance. Naturally we will still have to adjust and change certain things. Your ideas regarding content and structure are most welcome. Please do not hesitate to write me directly.
Bit by bit, we will open up further editorial columns or introduce completely new ones, such as “VIP” – “Very Impressive People”. As journalists, we meet quite a number of impressive people over the year, people you know superficially, but don’t know any details about. What do they like and what are their passions? What drives them to do their job the way they do it? To give you a little foretaste, I have placed two portraits of wellknown entrepreneurs I met in the past years in this new column.
With today’s issue, we also open up the people and company databases. They too will constantly be expanding. Both will only be accessible to subscribers. In addition you will find an event calendar listing the most important meetings and conferences of the industry; a link will forward you to the organizer’s websites.
As regards current content, my colleague Susanne Stauss and I have further edited issues that were discussed at the ITB and the Hotel Investment Forum Berlin. For example, some American chains have dedicated themselves to cleaning up their home market – after all, a compliment to the standards and levels of European hotels. Please read more about this in the articles on Cendant and Best Western. We also collected interesting voices of the industry during the annual Hotel Investment Forum in Berlin.
If you like the approach of hospitalityInside.com, please recommend us to your colleagues. This magazine will only be successful if the industry is willing to back high-quality content.
We look forward to writing for YOU!
Yours Maria Puetz-Willems
Editor-in-Chief
Please write to me via: maria@hospitalityInside.com
