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Berlin. The Grand City Hotels & Resorts hotel management company in Berlin is introducing its own brand "Grand City" on the hotel market. In parallel, collaboration with other brands is to be pushed forward. The company appearance was revised.

Augsburg.The keyword "News mix" will bring to you tiny bits of news about considerable events of the past week. The following companies and destinations are mentioned today: Accor, Atlantis Dubai/hotel projects, B&B, CHI, Fairmont, Foremost Hospitality, Grosvenor House, Hilton Garden Inn, Marriott/Courtyard, Vienna International.

Mumbai. Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces launched a new brand covering 26 locations in India's most important metropole cities and resort destinations. 13 of them are former Taj Hotels undergoing a refurbishment and repositioning.

Frankfurt. The Federal Office of Statistics in Germany announced a plus of 5.6% on overnight stays made by foreign guests staying at hotels, hostels or guest houses with more and nine beds or at campsites in the first six months of 2008. 25.1 million overnight stays were recorded in the months January to June, pointing even before the traditionally strong summer months to a positive trend for 2008.

Bad Arolson. Hospitality Alliance plc based in Bad Arolson has launched its own budget chain with a hotel on Berlin's famous Alexanderplatz under the name "H2 Hotels". In mid-May 2010, the first hotel will open in Berlin City with management proclaiming a further nine hotel openings in large German cities as realistic within the coming five years.

Augsburg.The keyword "News mix" will bring to you tiny bits of news about considerable events of the past week. The following companies and destinations are mentioned today Anantara, B&B, Epoque, Strategic, Hapimag, InterContinental, Interstate, Park Inn, Rennbahn Frankfurt, Romantik, Scandic, Vienna International, Wyndham Hotels.

Augsburg. Transaction volume on the hotel real estate market has dropped significantly. Four weeks before the start of the commercial real estate fair Expo Real in Munich, the real estate agents and consultancy companies Christie + Co, Berlin, and Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, Munich, confirmed the trend over the last six months both for Germany and for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. And another interesting trend: Despite "asset light" strategies, hotel companies are once again beginning to buy properties.

Beijing (August 29, 2008). A study of daily hotel performance shows significant rate and revenue spikes in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games as the city posted an occupancy rate of 88.47 percent during the event.  Secondary host cities Hong Kong and Qingdao experienced RevPAR declines.