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Expo Real: Hotel finance under ESG - Not yet perfect, but the right way
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Beatrix Boutonnet
is a Hotel manager, graduate in business administration (FH) and as a business journalist our real estate and fund specialist. Apart from that, she loves cooking and everything French and Japanese.
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