The washing machine in the lobby

Nuremberg. Serviced apartments will in future be called apartment hotels or apart-hotels, experts and leading providers in both Great Britain and in Germany have decided. The market and customer potential of this segment is enormous. Nevertheless, online reservations aren't developing analogously to classic hotel business in every respect. This was clear at the 5th "Apartment Camp" in Nuremberg.

Munich. "Everything is moving – and underway!" That is the message to be sent out by the key players of the apartment sector at this year's Expo Real. For the first time, the biggest competitors on the German market in this segment will present themselves together at the hotel conference on Monday: Accor/Adagio, Adina, Ascott/Citadines, Derag Livinghotels, Marriott, and Boardinghouse Consulting will be introducing their jointly worked out definitions and standards. One of the initial results: They want to act under the common designation of "apartment hotel" or "aparthotel", thus coining and defining this term for the industry.