News & Stories
Wiesbaden. The staff shortage in German speaking Europe is currently still a manageable problem. Above all, it's the fields of sales, congress sales and management where quality staff are lacking. And the situation isn't getting better.
Duesseldorf. The German YourCareerGroup AG organised the "Recruiting Days" in 2002 and this concept has now been taken up again. Career fairs will enter the next round all over Germany in April 2008.
Frankfurt/M. Kempinski Hotels' management strategy will continue to concentrate on Europe, the Middle East, China and Africa, as CEO Reto Wittwer stressed as part of his current tour "It's all about people" through all Kempinski hotels. The aim of the Wittwer "roadshow" is to explain the current Kempinski strategy to all staff and managers and to motivate them into providing active support in the search for new management talent. Kempinski employees will also learn the role hotel owners play in the selection of managers.
Pegnitz. Red patent-leather shoes and bow tie with curly hair and always with a smile. He could be a conductor or artist. Andreas Pflaum is a peacock among the hoteliers - and an unconventional thinker who, in truth, belongs to the quiet elite of his kind. But as his hotel, the PPP - Pflaums Posthotel Pegnitz - is located in the back of beyond, not everybody notices this. The former Thurn and Taxis posthouse celebrates its 300th anniversary this year. And the guest list of the internationally renowned art, design and event hotel may be celebrated for being unparalleled. The last years of the medium-class hotel have been dominated by financial balancing acts. For in Pegnitz, not the hotel filed for bankruptcy, but the financing bank. In these days, in early June, Andreas Pflaum finally succeeded in "pulling himself out of the morass using his own strength like the Baron of Muenchhausen did," as he says beaming with joy. A review with foresight, an example for Germany's creative medium-sized business.
Bad Honnef. Managers in the hotel industry are subject to ever increasing demands. Members of the German Hotel Directors Association agree on this at least. Yet when asked about the need for academic qualification, many views are to be found amongst HDV members. A survey.
New York. Six leaders of the U.S. largest lodging companies have joined together to urge Congress and the Administration to end the impasse and take action on comprehensive immigration reform.