News & Stories

Frankfurt/M. Exotic and long-distance travels are only booming among young target groups at best. The majority of Germans prefer a green, sunny vacation nearby. This and other astonishing findings are the result of the first tourism study "Menschen unterwegs".

Dallas. The small but fine collection of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has after a long while now seen three new additions to its portfolio. New Mexico, California and Florida are the new locations.

London. During the year 2006 ten new InterContinental Hotels & Resorts are currently scheduled to open around the world. In Europe a resort in Spain and a business hotel in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, will open under the brand name.

Bonn. The number of overnight stays in German hotels increased once again in 2005. The upwards trend in tourism continues. The German Tourism Association presented the figures for 2005.

Augsburg. France is the most mature budget hotel market in Europe, InterContinental with its budget brand, Express by Holiday Inn, is the most rapidly expanding group overall. In the UK and Germany new brands are coming up. Spain and Italy are the laggards in terms of budget hotel development. Recently, American Cendant group, the world’s largest hotel franchiser, is gearing up for a major push into Continental Europe. A research in facts and figures about the business with the budget hotels.

Munich Where does "budget" begin and where does it end? Hotel operators, project developers and advisors come to completely different results. In the German budget hotel industry few of the 1 and 2 star brands of well known chains have taken on the battle against a flood of private hotels, guest houses and B&Bs. The segment offering accommodation for under 50 Euros is one of the toughest of all. In a special article by guest Benjamin Ploppa, Manager of Industry Line Hospitality, Deloitte Germany, we take a look at Germany.

London. The 48-strong Ramada Jarvis hotel chain is surging ahead with a market re-positioning to a predominantly four-star group, driven by the consolidation of the hotel grading system in the UK into one, unified star system.

London. Rezidor SAS Hospitality is forging ahead with bullish plans to expand across the UK and Ireland in 2006 and 2007. Its current portfolio of 32 hotels - under the Radisson SAS, Park Inn and Country Inn brands - will soon swell to 40.

Frankfurt/Eschborn. Rezidor SAS Hospitality has pushed down costs by 14% for the business year 2004. For the most part this was the result of savings made in purchasing, COO Martin Rinck recently reported. The merger of Arcor's and Dorint's purchasing departments resulted in savings on the level of millions. Behind the scenes, "Supply Management" is beginning to play an incerasingly important role in the workings of the big chains. The new method of cost optimisation will be a central point of interest at Germany's first purchasing congress for the hotel industry in Leipzig next week.

Berlin. Berlin is swamped with hotel beds and masses of tourists. A paradoxical situation hospitalityInside.com described in detail in the last issue. Willi Weiland, President of the Hotel und Gaststättenverband Berlin und Umgebung e.V., and General Manager of the InterContinental Hotel Berlin, tries to explain this odd situation from a hotel manager's point of view.