End of alliance

Wiesbaden. The Leading Hotels of the World parted less gallantly from its long-time EMEA executive Claudia Roth, and the Jacob couple announced its retirement in the Suvretta House St. Moritz. Marcus Woehrl is no longer member of the board of Gold Inn/Dormero, a Starwood Capital developer founded his own company, and at TUI, Accor, Steigenberger and Messe Berlin major personnel changes and promotions are due.

Stuttgart. Flames blaze on the property facade, then it rains in streams, water gurgles from the spiral staircase and later, poison-green blades of grass will grow over the facade and finally, screws turn wheel in wheel. It glows, flashes and flickers, at times the space collapses within itself and is built anew. In the future, this light and sound spectacle can be experienced every evening by musical guests of the Stuttgart SI Centrum and hotel guests at the new Dormero Hotel. Design and high-tech have entered into both high rises of which the Millennium Copthorne had held the legends up to last September. Now is the turn of an era: The owner of the musical centre is sweeping out the plush and patina throughout. The 454-room large Dormero Hotel will provide the design line for the entire centre. "Technology is our core competence", says Managing Director, Aleksej Leunov. The expansion and concepts have been propelled forward since July, but with only two, rather than three, Managing Directors. An update on Dormero and Gold Inn AG that officially opened its seventh Dormero Hotel one week ago in Stuttgart.

Nuremberg. Up to now it was a colourful mixture of very different hotels. Now, a new brand and a new design is to bring them into line: One by one, Gold Inn hotels will be realigned and renamed Dormero Hotels. Their concept: design, high-tech, a touch of local lifestyle and streamlined centralised administration. Their market: Germany. Their expansion target: two to three new hotels per year, 20 hotels in a maximum of ten years. hospitalityInside.com met the entire management team at the Expo Real, the head of which is a well-known name: Hans Rudolf Woehrl. The change.