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Even in Austria, hotel finance is changing its focus
Loans only for new beds
7.11.2012

Vienna. Equity hurdles for bank loans still have little impact on Austria's resorts. Largely because the assumption of liability by the Hotel and Tourism Bank provides critical support: Two thirds of the EUR 500 million allocated for the assumption of this liability are still available. The role of ÖHT is becoming increasingly important as it is feeling just how much commercial banks are holding back with hotel finance. If loans are made available, then today these are only for new rooms and no longer for luxury spa projects.

Heiligendamm: Race for investors
25.10.2012

Bad Doberan. "No decision has been made to sell," said the insolvency administrator of the Grand Hotel Heiligendamm to hospitalityInside.com. A final decision needs more time.

Alternative finance: Crowd-funding also for hotels / Part 2
Quick, simple and online
25.10.2012

Munich. Crowd-funding has been made possible with the rise of the internet. The principle is as simple as it is creative - as we explained in the first part of this series last week: Anyone who fails to secure credit through traditional means can fall back on finance from the internet community. Crowd-funding platforms bring together people with ideas with investors interested in supporting these ideas. If an investor likes a certain project presented on the crowd-funding platform, he or she need provide only a small amount - mostly between one and ten euros. This is the basic idea. For start-ups, the contributions are somewhat higher. The platforms in detail.

Expo Real: 7 Experts about hotel development and financing
Demands in the minus, problems in the plus
18.10.2012

Munich. Hotel financing is an urgent subject for the industry. Who is still financing where, which way are the big players going, and under which criteria are they expanding at all? And how do established banks face up to the current funding shortfall? Last week at the Expo Real, the 11th dialogue of the hospitality industry shed light on many of these aspects in the detailed opening talk with seven experts from the hotel industry, classical and alternative financial world. The opinions, at least, those of investors and operators – Starwood Capital and Hyatt – were quite similar. The banks, Aareal and Deutsche Hypothekenbank, defined their criteria, and Siemens Financial Services presented a niche-financing model as a silver lining on the green horizon. One assessment specialist has only seen little change since 2008. The highlights in the summary.

Alternative financing: Crowdfunding now also for the hotel industry / Part 1
When the Internet Community pays
18.10.2012

Munich. Budget hotels are in the trend and so is travelling. Were it not for the problems there with financing. Now in times of the crisis, the scanty cash and loans as well as the rising meaning of social networks is also the trend of the subject "Crowdfunding" or "dream financing" through the masses of the Internet Community. Even popstar David Bowie had already financed the legal security of his songs in 1997: His fans "donated" millions to him. Now, the trend has also come into the hotel industry. It can be illustrated by the cool concepts in Amsterdam: A pilot project has currently sprung up there with the name "City-Hub". Hidden behind it is a modular system of the private sleeping units much like the Japanese sleeping boxes from which unused office buildings could be converted into budget hotels in the future. It is financed via Crowdfunding. In the USA, this alternative financing form is already established within many industries, in Europe it is still in its baby shoes.

Heiligendamm: Still nothing decided
18.10.2012

Bad Doberan. Despite creditor meeting on Wednesday, still no decision on the future of the Grand Hotel Heiligendamm has been made public. Everything seems to be a matter of the sales price. In parallel, Anno August Jagdfeld now has a new problem.

OEHV and Hogast provide credit alternatives
18.10.2012

Vienna. The private resort hotel industry of Austria is also concerned by the credit crunch. Now the industry association OEHV, along with partners, is offering a credit alternative for hotels. At the same time, the largest purchasing cooperative in Austria is assisting in financing.

Siemens Financial Services: New model for sustainable projects
4.10.2012

Munich. Siemens Financial Services "goes green": Speaking at the Expo Real hotel conference "Hospitality Industry Dialogue" on Monday, October 8, 2012, the company will present a finance model for sustainable hospitality projects.

11 consulting companies on finance / Part 2
Little room for manoeuvre
2.10.2012

Augsburg. Securing finance is very difficult at the moment. This was underpinned by responses from the eleven consulting companies which hospitalityInside.com recently surveyed: What sort of finance is being granted, and what is not being granted? Does franchising have a chance for finance? And how much equity must investors today commit to projects of up to EUR 20 million, EUR 50 million or over EUR 100 million? Their answers show that framework conditions are now more difficult that ever. With this, there is certain to be lots to talk about at the Expo Real in Munich. Even the hotel conference there, the "Hospitality Industry Dialogue", will start with a two-hour discussion on this very subject. Each trade fair visitor can take an active part in the discussion.

"Creative" financing with tricks, cheating, negligence
Black sheep
27.9.2012

Leonberg. What blunders do investors, tenants and banks commit in terms of finance? Quite large ones it seems, as a meeting with Antje Zumsande reveals, Managing Director of the consulting company Consilium Hotellerie in Leonberg near Stuttgart. Hotel real estate advisors like her see and hear a lot. General contractors, hoteliers, bankers, local politicians and planners include her in their plans and projects; come to her with their problems - and sometimes also with daring proposals or schemes. Five examples from real life show how "creative" the parties involved are when they want to reach their goals: From a defrauded franchisor, a greedy investor, a negligent bank, jumpy partners and a fiddling owner.

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Financial Results

HI+Moevenpick and Arcotel: 2010 very positive

Zurich/Vienna. Swiss-German Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts posted a considerable rise in earnings for 2010, the Austrian Arcotels speaks of a record result.

HI+Grand Resort Bad Ragaz: The 2010 challenge

Bad Ragaz. The Grand Resort Bad Ragaz group achieved more than 12% increase in turnover in fiscal 2010, and significantly higher occupation among top-class suites. Exchange rates and smoking regulations, however, made life quite difficult.

HI+After 2010: NH, Maritim and Design Hotels optimistic

Wiesbaden. Together with the announcement of their results in 2010 NH Hoteles, Maritim and Design Hotels show optimism. Even though the slightly positive results had been hard to reach.

HI+Strong increase for German Choice Hotels

Munich. Room rates and room revenues strongly increased last year: The results in 2010 for Choice Hotels Europe/Germany prove that the business has noticeably pulled again since April, 2010.

HI+Motel One, Orient-Express, Sol Meliá, Warimpex: Between loss and top profit

Wiesbaden. Orient-Express still reports net losses, Warimpex better earnings and Motel One and Sol Melia report significantly better results. The operating results 2010 of the candidates in a brief summary including PDFs.

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