Dear Insiders,
Creativity is not a question of national affiliation, as was recently demonstrated by the "Future Forum" of design hotels in Vienna. The discussion was about innovative and more or less shrill projects as well as "container hotels" and alternative housing concepts. Share a view visions of design hotels. hospitalityInside.com was there.
design hotels have literally been hot on our heels until today's issue. Another article picks up a topic of last week's "hotelforum" conference. The "2006 European Hotel Real Estate Award" went to a cleverly designed budget hotel, the history of origin of which I had already been marginally observing over the past few years. A small Austrian family business has proven courage with a "less-is-more" strategy. The new budget design hotel Daniel in Graz fits in perfectly with our series of examples of creative concepts in Austria. It is a member of design hotels just as the far nobler Loisium near Krems. You will probably already know it as "cube in the vineyard". Guy Dittrich, our architect specialist, took a close look at it, while I myself carefully checked the Daniel for its savings plan. The analysis clearly shows: design is not a question of budget.
Moreover, we looked across the industry's borders last week right into the sector of leisure real estates. Our findings: problems, financing and discussions about target groups are quite similar. Heuer-Dialog organised an excellent conference in the VIP facilities of Munich's Olympic Stadium.
hospitalityInside.com is always looking for issues that give you new inspiration for your work. In this respect, international and intersectoral conferences are an ideal platform. Our media partnerships - with the International Hotel Conference in Rome, the design hotels' Future Forum in Vienna and Heuer-Dialog about Leisure Real Estate in Munich - have proven to be a unique platform for new contacts.
This also includes the Cornell University/Center for Hospitality Research with which we are working together in a close partnership. As of today, Cornell supports hospitalityInside's concept over and above editorial issues. The institute presents itself on our new hospitalitySolutions.info platform. The next Solutions partners have thus already registered. In this respect, you should always look at this second pillar of hospitalityInside as of today. By the way, all new contributions on that site will be indicated in our Friday newsletter.
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Yours, Maria Puetz-Willems
Editor-in-Chief
Any comments? maria@hospitalityInside.com