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Exclusive cooperation for new "Motel One Experts"
28.11.2013

Munich. The low budget design Motel One hotel chain and the International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef Bonn have signed an unusual cooperative agreement. Beginning next summer, each staff member can educate their self through to university study in modules on the new "One Campus".

EHL takes over majority at Swiss school for tourism
21.11.2013

Lausanne/Passugg. This Thursday past, the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne signed an agreement taking over 75% of the share capital of the Swiss School for Touristik und Hotellerie AG in Passugg.

Heilbronn University discusses minimum wages with hoteliers
Pleading for a decent remuneration
21.11.2013

Heilbronn. A sticking point in the coalition negotiations for the new government formation in Germany is the nationwide minimum wage of 8.50 Euro an hour demanded by the SPD. While large parts of the hospitality industry do not wish to support this, well-known executives are expressing themselves toward it. A reason: The image of the industry as an employer must be clearly improved. The discussion on the subject of "Minimum Wages" found in the middle of October within the scope of the 4th "Hospitality Symposium" held by the Heilbronn University was initiated by Prof. Dr. Christian Buer. The subject of the event to which more than 300 participants found their way was "Staff Members Sought – The Hospitality Industry as an Attractive Employer."

Wages: Qualified hotel personnel more dissatisfied than others
20.11.2013

Duesseldorf. The gross monthly income of qualified hotel personnel on the basis of 38 hour weeks amounts to an average of 1,801 Euro without bonus payments. Half of the qualified hotel personnel earn less than 1,636 Euro. Employees in collective agreement operations are clearly better positioned with their monthly income and bonus payments.

A psychology professor debunks an executive myth
The "old hand" is not the best
6.11.2013

Osnabrueck. Imagine that you must fill a management position and have two suitable applicants. One disposes of many years of management experience, the other has never led staff. On whom do you decide? You would most likely prefer the experienced executive. Such executives are generally considered as more competent than a staff member without management experience. A fateful mistake, as Psychology Professor Uwe Peter Kanning of the University of Osnabrueck has discovered. This has consequences in the personnel choices.

France: Jobs in demand but threatened
16.10.2013

Paris. In its annual employment needs survey "Besoin de Main d’œuvre", the French government employment agency Pôle Emploi confirmed an urgent need for more staff in the hotel and hospitality industry. Hoteliers feel helpless.

Why are the new CEOs no longer coming from the hotel industry?
The hot seat
5.9.2013

Augsburg. Does a financial or real estate expert sit on the CEO seat of your company? And is the CEO fired every two years? Then your hotel group is hip. Or does your CEO still have their own financial board of directors and the time to consult with them? Then your hotel group belongs to the old guard! The fact that Accor's shareholders sent someone from their own ranks to the CEO seat last week is the culmination of an extreme development all around the globe. Will it lead the hospitality industry to the edge of the abyss? Over recent years, almost every new CEO who has been appointed to the top of the "Global Players" has not been a hotelier. The new hospitality leaders are coming from the financial and real estate or brands world. They have only rolled figures, grilled the other burger, sold the Nike shoes.... They are engaged because they are to be considered as creative, unconventional thinkers and bring fresh input. Stockholders have them called them in – and thrown them out again. What are these external leaders able to supposedly do better than hoteliers, what worse? How long will this change persist and what will the hotel CEO of the future look like? hospitalityInside.com has asked former CEOs, executives and headhunters.

Kempinski on different routes in search for talent, stripping corporate power
New HR power for the GM
25.7.2013

Geneva. Kempinski President Reto Wittwer is now particularly calling hotel general managers to duty in the search and support of talent. Moreover, they themselves must go back to school. All senior managers within the hotel group should have an MBA by 2015. Only 62 percent of the hotel general managers have currently completed the management degree. Reto Wittwer does not think much of a central personnel department. "Corporate HR brings no value", the President and CEO of Kempinski Hotels & Resorts states. "They often behave in such a way as if they were a frustrated general manager and want to play king-maker."

Education: SPD criticises, Dehoga counters
30.5.2013

Berlin. This information is not new: The situation within the education market has tightened, theyounger generation is scarce. Now, politics is interferingduring the election year in Germany. The SPD groupis requiringimprovements in the education situation within the hotel and catering industries and is even demandinga draught law. In turn, the German Hotel and Restaurants Association(Dehoga) maintains that this is excessive; indeed, everything has already long been regulated.

New HDV quality seal "Excellent Training" to secure future talent
An audit of black sheep
23.5.2013

Bad Honnef. The German Hotel Director Association working in collaboration with the testing institute Dekra has created a new quality seal for "Excellent Training". Audits will now be used to ensure that young apprentices receive a proper and suitable training within the sector. The approach is positive, though as one personnel expert points out, it leaves questions unanswered. One must also ask why one of the smallest industry associations has decided to introduce such a scheme and why there has been no concerted action in Germany up to now. After all, the problem effects us all.

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New appointments to top positions in luxury groups

HI+New appointments to top positions in luxury groups

Augsburg. Top corporate positions newly filled: First, there is a new CEO for the Raffles & Orient Express brands at Accor, a new CCO at Four Seasons and a new CCO at Mandarin Oriental.

Big decisions

HI+Big decisions

Augsburg. The Italian Hotelturist Group has found a new CEO in Giuliano Gaiba. Martina Maly-Gärtner moves from Arabella to UBM in Vienna. Markus Lewe moves to HR Group in Berlin after 27 years at Marriott. Carsten Wilmsen gets more influence at Deutsche Seereederei. At Commerz Real AG Gabriele Volz throws in the towel after four months.

Surprising decisions

HI+Surprising decisions

Augsburg. Scandal at the Spanish association CEHAT, Österreich Werbung hires a German managing director, Marriott a new chief developer EMEA, Accor a sustainability specialist. Matthias Hautli has left Engel & Völkers, and at Steigenberger the personnel merry-go-round is turning with the new brand division. Wolfgang Hampel ends his life's work Ospidea.

New managers and structures

HI+New managers and structures

Wiesbaden. In future, Stayery will seek digital advice from Constantin Rehberg. Dorint is setting up a commercial team in Switzerland. The Ameron Munich Motorwelt is starting with Jan Zitzmann as GM and Mickael Billy has been appointed Senior Sales Manager Europe, Russia & CIS by the Oetker Collection. La Française announced a new Managing Director for Germany.

Change of chief

HI+Change of chief

Wiesbaden. At Motel One, founder Dieter Müller moves to the supervisory board and hands over the helm to Stefan Lenze and Daniel Müller. The SO/Berlin Das Stue has a new GM in Dario Pithard, and Premier Inn appoints a Head of Commercial Germany. Heiko Kain is now GM of the Scandic Munich Macherei, Konstanze Junkermann of the Scandic Frankfurt Museumsufer. At Orascom Development, Tarek Kamel takes up a new position.

Extending management teams

HI+Extending management teams

Wiesbaden. Marriott is filling further global management positions and appoints David Marriott as a member of the board. Michael Zager is now with HMA Dubai, Patrick Eggebrecht moved to Living Hotels in Munich. Treugast strengthens the hotel management division. Axel Kleinefenn is back at Union Investment and HRS strengthens the management of Destination Solution.

Driving the company forward

HI+Driving the company forward

Augsburg. Rosewood Hotel Group is filling four new VP positions to drive its expansion. B&B brings Frank Seedorff on board as Digital Expert and Rob Hornman moves from the OTA platform HRS to the management of the medium-sized Flemings Hotels in Germany.

Expanding new competences

HI+Expanding new competences

Augsburg. Marriott made its previous interim team Tony Capuano and Stephanie Linnartz the chain's management duo this week. Belmond appoints a new VP Global Development. Georg Schlegel leaves Choice Hotels. Sébastien Mariette is responsible for two Kempinski hotels in Egypt. Colliers hires a technology expert. Christie & Co expands its German team and Stefan Bezold joins Sabre after many years at Infor.

Breaking News: Marriott announces new CEO and President

HI+Breaking News: Marriott announces new CEO and President

Bethesda. Marriott International's Board of Directors announced today that Anthony "Tony" Capuano has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and has joined the company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. He was previously Group President, Global Development, Design and Operations Services. Stephanie Linnartz, previously Group President, Consumer Operations, Technology and Emerging Businesses, has been appointed President, effective immediately.

Mourning and the next generation

HI+Mourning and the next generation

Augsburg. Around the world, colleagues and business friends mourned the death of Marriott CEO Arne M. Sorenson this week. Kai Winkler takes over his first job in Russia with the Fairmont Moscow. Three hotel managers still have their careers ahead of them at Premier Inn in Heidelberg, Saarbrücken and Freiburg, as do Intercity Hotels three new GMs for the hotels in Darmstadt, Nuremberg and Hanover. Fleming's continues to expand its leisure team. And HEDNA elected its Board of Directours 2021.

Arne M. Sorenson passed away

HI+Arne M. Sorenson passed away

Arne M. Sorenson.Photo: Marriott International

Bethesda. "It is with profound sadness that Marriott International announces that Arne M. Sorenson, President and CEO, unexpectedly passed away on February 15, 2021," Marriott International told a few minutes ago. In May 2019, the company announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. On February 2, 2021, Marriott shared the news that Arne Sorenson would temporarily reduce his schedule to facilitate more demanding treatment for pancreatic cancer.

He became the third CEO in Marriott's history in 2012, and the first without the Marriott surname. A visionary leader, he put the company on a strong growth trajectory that included the $13-billion acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts. During his tenure as CEO, Arne Sorenson was tireless in driving the company's progress, creating opportunities for associates, growth for owners and franchisees and results for the company’s shareholders. Known for his leadership on difficult national and global issues, he  steered Marriott to make significant progress on diversity, equity and inclusion, environmental sustainability and human trafficking awareness.

"Arne was an exceptional executive – but more than that – he was an exceptional human being," said J.W. Marriott, Jr., Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board. "Arne loved every aspect of this business and relished time spent touring our hotels and meeting associates around the world. He had an uncanny ability to anticipate where the hospitality industry was headed and position Marriott for growth. But the roles he relished the most were as husband, father, brother and friend. On behalf of the Board and Marriott's hundreds of thousands of associates around the world, we extend our heartfelt condolences to Arne’s wife and four children. We share your heartbreak, and we will miss Arne deeply."

There will surely be hardly anyone in the industry who does not share the grief of J.W. Marriott, Jr. / kn

 

Looking ahead

HI+Looking ahead

Wiesbaden. Arne Sorenson remains CEO of Marriott, but hands over to two younger employees during his recovery. At the Italian Baglioni Hotels, there was a farewell and a new start in marketing. In Germany, the Amano Group continues to expand with Zeèv Rosenberg. Travel Charme handed over new properties to two experienced managers, and an experienced employee returned to the Lindenhof Lifestyle DolceVita Resort in South Tyrol.

New managers and new structures

HI+New managers and new structures

Wiesbaden. Franck Gervais moved from Accor to Pierre & Vacances, Georg Schmickler now heads the hotel division at DER Touristik. Florian Daniel took over a new position at Deutsche Hospitality. Luc Boschmans is now a hotel expert at Tristan Capital, Rami Z. Sayess Regional VP for Four Seasons in Bahrain, Denis Martin GM of Maslina Resort in Hvar and Markos E. Tzamalis COO at Phaea in Crete. Lisa Edelmann moves to Me & All Hannover. HBI is strengthening its residential and serviced apartment team.

New year, new challenges

HI+New year, new challenges

Wiesbaden. Exciting changes at the end of the year: Among others, André Meier moved up at Dolder Hotel AG, Dietmar Gunz said goodbye to FTI's operations and handed over to Ralph Schiller and Constantin von Bülow. Alexander Doerr moved to Vela Hotels, Connor Ryterski now heads prizeotel alone and Sandra Diaz moved from Event to Signo Hospitality. But there was also sad news: Gordon Butch Stewart, founder of Sandals Hotels passed away.

New responsibilities

HI+New responsibilities

Augsburg.Robert Herr has left the Bürgenstock Resort near Lucerne and handed it over to a new GM. Mandarin Oriental appoints new Director of Marketing & Commerce, BNP Paribas Real Estate strengthens its management board with two new seats, Susanne von Moltke joins the board of Relais & Châteaux. The Base establishes an advisory board, the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry BTW elected a new presidium, Carsten Colmorgen manages the Dorint Kurfürstendamm and the Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg has a new director and a new deputy.

New leaders

HI+New leaders

Augsburg. The Base appoints a Vice President Real Estate, Andreas Magnus manages two new swiss Kempinski hotels, Karl J. Pojer leaves Hapag Lloyd Cruises and the Hotel Association Germany has elected its board.

New CEO Europe for Choice Hotels

HI+New CEO Europe for Choice Hotels

Augsburg. Choice Hotels strengthens the importance of the European portfolio. To this end, two new positions are joining the management team: a new CEO Europe and a Finance Director for Europe.

Change and cluster

HI+Change and cluster

Augsburg. Accor appointed a new Group Chief Commercial Officer, Fabio Datteroni has moved to Saturnia di Terme, Premier Inn is expanding its middle management with four Cluster Managers in Germany, Falk Bartels is responsible for the pre-opening at Leonardo Royal Nuremberg, and Christof Keller has been appointed Director at Rheinhotel Dreesen.

New and proven heads

HI+New and proven heads

Augsburg. Daniela Schade's comeback leads her to Deutsche Hospitality, Achat Hotels appointed a new head of procurement and the GNTB elected its board for the next three years.

New tasks, new positions

HI+New tasks, new positions

Augsburg. Marriott has promoted Satya Anand to the new President EMEA. Marcus Bernhardt and Ulrich Johannwille took up their position as CEO and CFO of Deutsche Hospitality on 1 November, Siegfried Nierhaus returns to Deutsche Hospitality as VP Middle East, Fotis Fakes is promoted to Senior Director Operations & Commercial Int. Resort Hotels. Fabio Leoni now manages the Hotel Le Massif in Valle d'Aosta, Ruby Hotels strengthens its entire HR team and Ruby Workspaces becomes a separate business unit, also in terms of personnel. Robert Petroviċ leaves The Ritz-Carlton Berlin.

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