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The economic pressure on the hotel sector is, and remains, considerable. According to the findings of an annual Europe-wide study, chain hotels are best able to cope with this. In Germany, sentiment remains subdued.
While organisations continue to navigate many short-term challenges, they remain committed to investing in future meetings, exhibitions, conventions and incentive travel programmes.
Amsterdam has a message for the tourism industry: you are welcome, but you will pay for it. And so will your guests. This week, the city's new coalition government announced a plan to raise its "toeristenbelasting", the municipal tourist tax on overnight stays, from the current 12.5% to 16% in 2027, with the rate increasing by one percentage point per year until it reaches 20% in 2030.
67% of German business travellers have already undertaken a bleisure trip, the majority of whom hold middle management positions. This means that bleisure has now firmly established itself in Germany too. This is revealed by a groundbreaking study.
Airbnb starts 2026 with its strongest quarterly numbers in years. But beneath the surface, something more important is happening. Hotels - the same industry that Airbnb spent 15 years disrupting, competing against, and telling travellers to avoid - are now the fastest-growing category on the platform.
The Schörghuber Group in Munich is continuing its growth trajectory despite the crises – and so is its hotel group, Arabella Hospitality SE. The group looks at locations outside Germany and, in addition to leases, is now also open to HMAs.
Every year, the Austrian National Bank (ÖNB) attempts to statistically analyse the financial flows generated by foreign visitors. The figures show that Austrian tourism remained remarkably stable in 2025.
Business travel activity among German companies remains at a standstill in 2026. As recently as early 2026, significantly more had anticipated an increase. The reasons include rising prices, geopolitical risks and air travel bottlenecks.
Despite the U.S./Iran conflict which began on 28 February 2026, the region’s hotel construction pipeline proved resilient in the last month of the quarter — closing Q1 at a record high of 717 projects and 177,110 rooms.
Deka Immobilien faces a second major operator default in the Netherlands: The German institutional investor finds itself in court again, this time against Revo Hospitality Group, whose Dutch Mövenpick subsidiary has accumulated 4 million euros in overdue rent on a lease that runs to 2052 and commits 281 million euros.
