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Samuel Braun Group newly organised
Real estate and health complement business
4.5.2007

Berlin. After World War II, Samuel Braun, an import and export salesman from Berlin, bought a share of his first hotel, the Savoy in Berlin. In the meantime, Samuel Braun Group has four hotels in Western Berlin, and its further activities successfully complement the hotel business.

Small chains: Grand City Hotels & Resorts
Further expansion with Lehmann Brothers
27.4.2007

Berlin. The hotel group Grand City Hotels & Resorts is expanding at a very swift pace in Germany. It is backed by a financially powerful investors’ consortium and an ambitious management team with likewise ambitious plans for the future.

Germany: A smoking ban with exceptions - will the EU intervene?
Practice has long since overtaken politics
6.4.2007

Wiesbaden. A national smoking ban in all public spaces - in state offices, trains and buses - to enter into force as from January 2008 has already been decided in February this year. A similar ban for pubs and restaurants, however, falls within the legislative authority of the federal states, each of which will allow for their own list of exceptions. Now, many non-smokers are hoping to achieve a final and complete ban with help from Brussels. Yet while EU politicians' hands remain tied, the smoke seems to be clearing on its own back in Germany.

Arlberg Hospiz to invest 3.5 million in elite centre for further training
An academy in high altitudes
30.3.2007

St. Christoph/Arblerg. The Arlberg Hospiz hotel wants to ensure ten-month occupancy at top rates with an elite training refuge in the ski resort of St. Christoph, Austria. Some big names stand behind this idea for further training at 1,700 metres above sea level.

Hotel Association Germany complains about unfair competition
Hotel industry treated badly
23.3.2007

Berlin. "A good economy is only partly able to cover the structural weaknesses of Germany as a hotel location," said Fritz G. Dreesen, Chairman of the Hotelverband Deutschland, in Berlin at the association's annual press conference on Wednesday. He denounced the irregularities that could once again or still call into question the 2006 upswing. This includes the continuously high VAT rate for the hotel industry, the scandalously high radio licence fees compared to the rest of Europe and currently, the upholding of German law in terms of contractual obligations vis-à-vis foreign guests. Dreesen appealed to the federal government to ensure that there will finally be more equal opportunities within Europe.

US overrun by new brands
23.3.2007
New York. Over the course of 2005 and 2006, 24 new hotel brands were formed in the U.S., the largest number of brand introductions for any two-year period since 1989.
Treugast-Ranking 2007 gives cause for surprise
Budget chains rated top
9.3.2007

Berlin. The Treugast Investment Ranking, presented each year for the last eight years just prior to the ITB, is each time awaited with baited breath. This year there were a few surprises in store. One of these surprises: German hotel chains have recorded above average results, one of them even securing a position in the top ranking hotels. The award of "Most Wanted Investment Partner" was made to an American firm.

Small hotel chains: Fleming's with nine hotels soon
A concept model, attractively realised
9.2.2007

Frankfurt/M. The expansion of the German hotel chain Fleming's continues to progress. By the end of 2009, six more hotels and two boarding houses will be added to the three hotels that already exist. They will be managed by HMG mbH & Co KG that also operates five Steigenberger hotels. The family Blodinger from Frankfurt is behind HMG and Fleming's.

Rough cut by CHE Europe
26.1.2007

London. Peter Cashman, Executive Director of Choice Hotels Europe resigns and plans to leave the group on 30 March 2007. At the same date company secretary Sam Marshall will retire as company secretary. This became public in a statement yesterday. CHE also announced to streamline the management and cut costs of one million Pounds Sterling. 

Kempinski Heiligendamm preparing for G8 summit
Marketing across the fence
19.1.2007

Heiligendamm. A twelve-million Euro fence will soon be encircling the Kempinski Hotel Heiligendamm. This week's TV footage showed the start of the construction work focused on June 6 -8, 2007. At this time, the luxury resort in Northern Germany will host the G8 summit, the meeting of the eight most influential heads of government in the world, and will therefore have to be properly sealed off. By the end of December, the hotel had already been the target of a "colour-bag attack". Maria Puetz-Willems talked with Kempinski's General Manager Torsten Dressler about the current status of the preparations, security issues and the summit's meaning for the resort and the entire destination.

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