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The empire of the billionaire entrepreneur René Benko from Vienna, who is now stumbling, also includes hotels. There is growing uncertainty as to how the Tyrolean property shark's convoluted Signa real estate group will continue. 

Austria is celebrating its best summer ever. In absolute figures, Vienna alone accounted for about half of the increase in guests. And there is already great optimism for the winter of 2023/24. 

Bypillow is entering Italy with its first opening already planned in Florence next year. It's the first of many more Spanish companies to follow. The Spanish-Italian love story goes on.  

The Spanish und the Portuguese hotel markets improve their performance massively and lead to real estate investments. International chains increase, but slower than expected. 

Whitbread subsidiary Premier Inn Hotels won the "Most Wanted Investment Partner Award" in Germany for the first time at Treugast Ranking 2023. Halbersbacher Hospitality Group enters with a BBB ranking. Established players such as Motel One and B&B Hotels defended their status. The German hotel market continues to be dynamic and remains promising, despite all crises.

Even the way from the underground to Expo Real was paved with posters talking about CO2 reduction or recycling. In between, the poster of Deutsche Zinshaus with the almost somewhat desperate-sounding statement: "We'll buy anyway!" In the halls, only the owners and operators from the hotel industry were smiling. And there were other burning issues. Here are the statements from the hotel industry on all topics.

Germany, Austria and Switzerland are a perfect microcosm to look at the industry as a whole. A recent report says: In project financing, the industry needs to become more creative.

The Dutch hospitality sector is navigating a complex landscape in 2023. Meanwhile, Amsterdam's hotel industry is witnessing substantial growth in various performance metrics despite the municipality's efforts to reduce the flow of visitors.

The white-label operator and investor Borealis has developed its first own serviced apartment brand, The Jaeder House, and has a large pipeline in Germany. Timehouse also had its say.

In 2023, large parts of the German hotel industry will reach or exceed the excellent rate level of the pre-corona year of 2019, but the revenues are stagnating, and the profits are decreasing. Claudia Sunderkamp and Philipp Linder of Hotour tell us why they see the hotels as desirable partners for investors despite the current crisis.