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Berlin/Hirschegg. The ground-breaking ceremony for the new Travel Charme Ifen Hotel in Kleinwalsertal, Austria, took place yesterday. Raiffeisen Holding Kleinwalsertal and Travel Charme Hotels & Resorts are set to recreate a traditional hotel with the newly constructed Ifen Hotel. The hotel has been closed since 2005 and, if everything goes to plan, is due to reopen its doors in spring 2010. With the new hotel, the German holiday-hotel group Travel Charme extends its portfolio by a property in a classic winter sport region.

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: Grand Hotels Bad Ragaz, Heliopark Group, Hilton, GBI/Motel One, CHI Hotels, Rezidor, RIMC, Six Senses Spas.

Duesseldorf. After 17 years, hotelier Thomas H. Althoff will part with the Villa Viktoria in Dusseldorf which he opened in 1991. In future, he will focus exclusively on hotels with gourmet restaurant.

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: Althoff, B&B, Hilton, Kempinski, Jean Nouvel, Scandic, Starwood Hotels.

Frankfurt/M. In the first half of July 2008, 25hours Hotel Company will open its third design hotel for uncomplicated "downtown Indians". In close collaboration with the cult brand of Levi's, an unconventional hotel world with the charm and humour of a modern community is being created in the area around Frankfurt Central Station. It will be the first hotel of 25hours created in collaboration with a lifestyle partner.

London. Hilton Hotels Corporation signed its latest major strategic development alliance in the UK with HLH Property Ltd. to introduce up to 30 new hotels comprising around 4,000 rooms in the next five years. This represents the third major UK hotel deal with a leading property partner for Hilton since it declared the intention to grow its family of brands internationally.

London. From Asia to Europe and back: the young Guoman Hotels luxury brand, which is owned by Asians, but only represented in London up until now, wants to double its portfolio from currently three to six deluxe hotels by 2010. Afterwards, additional hotels will be erected in Asia and in the Middle East.

Lausanne. Yesterday, Golden Tulip Hospitality Group announced the launch of its new extended-stay brand concept "Tulip Residences". They will be located in urban areas, such as the major cities, airports and commercial centres and target as longstay guests as well as on daily travellers.

Hamburg. Following its separation from Arkona hotels, Deutsche Seereederei based in Hamburg now runs the luxurious A-rosa Resorts in Bad Saarow, Travemuende and Kitzbuehel as well as the Hotel Neptun in Warnemuende and the A-rosa Sylt through the management company A-rosa Resort Management Ltd.. Senator Horst Rahe, Managing Partner of DSR, raised the possibility of extending the portfolio to include budget properties at a discussion in Switzerland in mid-May.

Berlin. Economic growth in Germany returns to average this year after the two boom years 2006 and 2007. Consumer demand also fell in the second half of 2007. Private consumption fell from 1% in 2006 to 0.4% last year. The reason for the fall was the increase in VAT. Especially affected by the changes is the hotel and restaurant industry. The hotels did better.