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Augsburg. The keyword "News Mix" will bring to you tiny bits of news about considerable events of the past week(s): Carlson Rezidor/Crete, IHG/Turkey, JOI-Design, Treugast/Tunisia, Villas Valriche, Victoria-Jungfrau Collection.

Augsburg/Hamburg. In the hotel real estate market, the investment mood is top. Investors, owners and project developers look forward to the next six months with great optimism. This is one result of the 1st "Investment BAROMETER", initiated by the hotel trade magazine hospitalityInside in cooperation with Union Investment.

Augsburg/Hamburg. In the hotel real estate market, the investment mood is top. Investors, owners and project developers look forward to the next six months with great optimism. This is one result of the 1st "Investment BAROMETER", initiated by the hotel trade magazine hospitalityInside in cooperation with Union Investment.

Berlin. The Berliner hotelier and investor Ekkehard Streletzki from the mega-event hotel Estrel intends to build a new monument: the highest tower in Berlin. The entire complex is even to trump the ICC trade fair. PR is underway, but when is the tower to be built?

Nuremberg. Vacations continue to be high on the agenda for Germans. Travel agencies have so far registered a sales increase of around 8 percent for the upcoming 2014 summer season. Greece is particularly popular for this year's summer vacation.

Nuremberg. Europe is coming out of recession. Economic and income expectations of consumers increased in almost all countries and these were both higher at the end of 2013 than in the previous year. There is still considerable fluctuation in willingness to buy, but here too there is a slight upward trend.

Augsburg. The keyword "News Mix" will bring to you tiny bits of news about considerable events of the past week(s): Dubai/ hotel development, Holiday Inn Express/Heidelberg, HR Group/Mercure, Rilano/Russians.

Wiesbaden. The keyword "News Mix" will bring to you tiny bits of news about considerable events of the past week(s): Autograph/Australia, USA, Citadines/Frankfurt, Dehoga, Europa/Apollo, Four Seasons, Motel One/Frankfurt, Shangri-La/Mumbai, Starwood/Al Ain, Super8/Munich, TIME, TUI/Robinson, Worldhotel/Milan.

Bern. "This vote will place Switzerland in front of difficult problems." After the latest referendum in Switzerland, this sentence from a hotelier is not only applicable to the hotel industry and catering trade, but to the entire economy. However, the service industry in particular has many thoughts: More than 40 percent of employees in the hospitality industry come from abroad; about one third of them from the EU. 50.3 percent of the Swiss voters expressed themselves on Sunday toward a more strongly regulated immigration in the future. Nevertheless, individual hoteliers remain optimistic: "The guests will also be properly served in the future!" Yet on the other hand, they are somewhat queasy in their role as employer: Since the results will be heavily felt on the staffing side and it will be felt primarily behind the scenes. Strain and insecurity are widespread as the hospitalityInside survey of Swiss hoteliers and experts in Switzerland has indicated.

Vienna. In the last decade, the 1 and 2-star hotel industry in Vienna has increased disproportionally. Because this increase was accompanied by a rise in the occupancy rate, more openings are to follow soon.