News & Stories

London. Whitbread published its H1 results and announced to enter a consultation on proposals that could result up to 6,000 redundancies for the hotel and restaurant staff. On the other hand, the Group wants to pursue the growth opportunities both in the UK and Germany.

Beijing. Just as unobtrusively as it appeared, it has now disappeared: the Chinese insurance group Anbang, which in 2016 tried to thwart Marriott International's takeover of Starwood Hotels. The farce ended overnight. Now the Chinese state liquidated the entire company.

Augsburg. The keyword "News-Mix" will bring to you tiny bits of news about considerable events of the past week(s): Barceló/Sevilla, B&B/Vicar, Covivio/NH deal, Egerner Höfe/Concept, Four Seasons/Taormina, Hines/Project Dream, Locke/London, Mira/Siracuse, Radisson/Ulyanovsk, Stay Kooook/Bern, voco/Europe.

Milan. B&B Hotels aims to reach about 60 hotels in Italy before the end of 2023, starting from 42 properties today. Despite the ongoing pandemic, the French hotel company does not seem to slow down its expansion plans in the country.

San Francisco. How is Airbnb actually doing? The corona crisis initially put a damper on its planned IPO, but in the meantime the OTA is building on past successes, intensifying communication with its hosts and supporting them in the sensitive issue of corona hygiene. Less pleasing are probably the latest tax investigations in Hamburg.

Vienna. UBM Development is stepping on the brakes: Vienna's developer is one of the first to convert planned hotels into offices or apartments. With this move, 2,000 hotel rooms are leaving the pipeline. The Gerch Group, too, will no longer integrate any hotel in its Frankfurt Tower.

Wiesbaden. The keyword "News-Mix" will bring to you tiny bits of news about considerable events of the past week(s): Accor/Novotel Liverpool, Adagio/Heidelberg, Ascott/Citadines London, B&B/Kempten and Ravensburg, Covivio/Värde Portfolio, Loreley/Project, Langham/Residence Munich, Sant'Elena Terme/Sale, Schlosshotel Klink/Dr. Lohbeck, Weinromantikhotel Richtershof/Libertas.

Berlin. The German Hotel and Restaurant Association has published the results of a new survey, which does not bode well for the industry. Especially for the city and conference hotel industry there is pespective. The association urgently calls for further state aid to prevent a wave of bankruptcies.

Stockholm. Within three weeks, Scandic Hotels developed its new co-working concept from existing resources. The Group hopes to generate additional business from the home office trend: places in various formats have been announced in all 280 hotels at around 270 locations in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany and Poland.

Augsburg. The keyword "News-Mix" will bring to you tiny bits of news about considerable events of the past week(s): Accor/Swissotel Doha, Adagio/Vannes, a&o/Budapest, Arthotel ANA Super 8/Augsburg, Art-Invest/Leonardo Berlin, B&B/Ravensburg, Halldis/Court, Highstreet/Regensburg, Hyatt/Sofia and China, IHG/Loss Hotels, Intercity/Nizwa, Loftstyle/Concept, me and all/Kiel, Melia/China, MGallery/Athens, Moxy/Hamburg, Premier Inn/Bochum, prizeotel/Wiesbaden, Radisson/Heathrow, Revier/Schaffhausen, Six Senses/Umbria, Starhotels/Results, Steigenberger/BER Airport, TH/Finance, Trump/Vancouver, Union/Pullman Berlin, Urban Loft/Cologne, Zleep/Hanover and Denmark.