It's not just holiday hotels that are allowing more and more dogs on the premises. Now US hotels are also offering pets hourly care, services or the Luxury Suite for long-term stays. A new franchise model.

The year is 1950, there are around 71 million people living in Germany (FRG & GDR), the most populous country in the world is China with 544 million inhabitants. By 2024, these figures will look very different. The front runner is now India.

In Thailand, the clocks tick differently, namely slowly. Guaranteed when the art-culture-music-nature Wonderfruit Festival takes place again in the province of Chonburi. It has now been announced for December. 

In reputable family-run hotels, employees like to stay for a long time. Also, because the family values them. An unusual podcast from the Hotel Hochschober in Carinthia and a portrait of Rosi from the laundry at the Romantikhotel Oberwirt show what makes a "hotel family" tick.

You can celebrate an anniversary with flowery words or by playing with numbers. The H+ Hotel Limes Thermen Aalen opts for the latter and looks back with a twinkle in its eye on 208,050 boiled eggs and 14,230 meatballs for breakfast over three decades.

From a distance, you don't really know for sure what you're looking at. But when you get closer, you realise that the cylindrical shapes are small towers - with doors, windows and everything you need. What that is? The mini hotel slube.

Germans have lost their appetite for shopping. Shopping is now one of their least favourite leisure activities. The opposite is happening in Bucharest, where a luxury shopping mall and even more luxury hotels are being planned. 

Paris has shown the way, and now parking charges for SUVs could soon rise in German cities too. The environmental organisation Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) is mobilising to ensure that the bodywork top dogs are asked to pay more. 

Tour operators like to describe the location of hotels in positive terms. But advertising prose can be expensive. A court ruled: 1.3 kilometres from the hotel to the beach is more than "a few minutes' walk". The plaintiff obtained compensation. 

Long live... not just the Queen. Many people aspire to a long life and are prepared to adapt their lifestyle accordingly - an exciting approach for hotels too.