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Thai Dusit Hotels and Resorts have entered a strategic partnership with European Generator and Freehand Hotels to synergise their development resources to pursue sustainable international growth for their respective brands. At the same time, Dusit announced its first hotel in Austria.
The Park-Hotel am Hamburger Zoo Hagenbeck parted ways with Lindner Hotels and joined the operator newcomer Hospitality X. The latter made its debut in 2023 with the Zipper Hotel & Apartments in Düsseldorf. Both properties are now set to benefit from each other. The founders Tobias Oberdieck and Otto Konstantin Lindner realise that Tradition cannot be translated 1:1 into innovation in all areas.
The German economy is failing to gain momentum. And the German hotel industry is now feeling the effects of this in guest spending behaviour. It therefore finds itself in a doubly awkward position. Operating costs and bureaucracy continue to increase and interest rates remain high. The CEOs of ten hotel chains from the DACH region groan under the strain but are still managing the situation smartly.
There has already been much discussion about the 'hotelisation' of traditional real estate sectors, while hoteliers are creating more services to keep a greater share of the customer's wallet. F&B concepts drive ancillary activities, and a clever guest mix secures profits per square metre.
Alpin Resort Sacher Seefeld, Stanglwirt, Krallerhof, Kitzhof Mountain Design Resort: The who's who of the Alpine resort hotel industry discussed what they have learned from coronavirus at a summit in Kitzbühel. Two central statements: Maintaining quality and high prices, striving for year-round tourism and exchanging summer resorts for winter resorts.
The Serviced Apartment sector in Germany has updated its basic overview and renamed its "Charter of Temporary Living" to "Charter of Apartment Concepts".
Redundancies will be unavoidable: Premier Inn UK will convert 112 branded restaurants into rooms over the next two years and gradually sell 126 other loss-making restaurants. The F&B crisis has also hit the hotel giant.
Sustainability, staff challenges and ongoing digitalisation and automation of the hotel industry were the driving forces behind this routine process to revise the criteria for hotel classification. The new criteria come into force as of January 2025.
It's well known that hotel Food & Beverage operations are by and large low-margin activities. Since the pandemic, the situation has gotten worse, due to the rising cost of labour, in particular. Ultra-luxury remains as a class of its own. How can margins be improved? By a top guest experience or a "dark kitchen"?
"Welcome to the futures" was the theme of the AI kick-off lecture at HRS's "Corporate Lodging Forum" beginning of march in Berlin. For HRS, the future lies purely in business travel - and more than ever as a travel management service provider as opposed to a pure OTA. Hotels are to become stronger partners with the help of more intensive data transfer.