Into Crowdinvest, away with the costs, towards the future.

13.6.2025

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Falkensteiner Hotels and the holding company FMTG are now taking off: In Italy, the hotel group announced details of its new Crowdinvest platform: Family offices and private equity have already quietly jumped on board, and now CEO Otmar Michaeler and FMTG Invest head Anne Aubrunner are sharpening the expansion of hotels in combination with (branded) residences. They’re raising the capital for this themselves. They already have practice: €102 million were raised from 5,000 active investors in 14 crowdfundings. Everything that comes next is bigger, more expensive, ROI-driven. Clever: FMTG takes the municipalities on board. Otmar Michaeler will also talk about this form of alternative financing at "Hotels Tomorrow" (HOT), see below.

In these stressful, nebulous times, plain language is needed. This is what Vince Limpens from the EPEA (Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency) is doing today: In a building that lives for 40 years, only 9% of the costs are allocated to construction and energy. The remaining 90% of the costs are in operations; it takes the upsides with it. The developer must therefore build a "healthy" hotel. "Healthy buildings are not expensive; unhealthy ones are just cheap, killing your brand, your people and the bottom line," he says coolly.

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After the HITT now comes the HOT! The play on these abbreviations for the HospitalityInside Think Tank and the new Hotels Tomorrow format is pure coincidence... Our in-house event, this year in Brussels, has found a knowledge-hungry community over the years. This can also be read in Sylvie Konzack and Sarah Douag's summary of our 2nd HITT Day, the Innovation Day, which was dedicated to "emerging technologies" - AI, virtual reality and voice bots. Change is here: From tools to a new mindset. We are making this contribution FREE again today - sharing is caring!

At Hotels Tomorrow (HOT), I am one of three founders, each of whom brings different talents and contacts to the table. We, the "3 M's" (Marius, Marc, Maria) are breaking new ground with this "Europe" idea - at an unintentionally perfect time. Looking forwards and backwards: HospitalityInside is now 20 years old - on the basis of quality and its reputable network. That is also the aim of HOT. The geopolitical turbulence is even helping us. And we are happy to help the industry. That's why today I've described the background to HOT and the path to the hotels of tomorrow (see Home). There are only three weeks left until Paris, set a new course with us! The program has gained weight. www.hotelstomorrow.eu

Technology has become a disruptor, first questioning everything and then rebuilding it. This is exactly what hotel career changer Martin Kemmer has done: Yesterday, he and his managing director partner Daniela Schade launched "9dots" in Berlin: a system platform that enables helpless individual hotels and frustrated franchisees to digitise their hotels. You can choose from over 100 modular software and tools and still remain the host. "Hotels as a Service" is the new term. We are pleased to be able to present a promising model to you in detail this morning, including prices and calculation examples.