News & Stories

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.

Munich. The cards are being shuffled anew: The hotel industry has reached a turning point in the middle of the corona crisis; the operators' merry-go-round has started turning again, the banks and the investment market have still remained quite calm. Who will be the winners and who the losers? There will be insolvencies, whereas a debt cut would be the more sustainable solution. The lease agreement will survive, but new constructs around it will emerge, as the Managing Partners Moritz Dietl and Michael Lidl of the Treugast Solutions Group from Munich say.

Berlin. The summer holidays in Germany and the parliamentary summer recess are over. The discussion about the crisis in the German hotel industry continues, the situation is still bad. Appropriate financial aid is still lacking for the majority of businesses. The industry association Dehoga is keeping quiet; it last published survey results on August 11. One week later, government statistics followed, which do not give the all-clear either.