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Benchmarking: Established database providers to face new competition
New chances for more transparency
10.11.2006

Augsburg. Benchmarking has become one of the most popular terms in the hotel industry. Especially in Austria and Germany which has the fiercest competition in Europe, comparing one's own figures with those of the competitors promises security. This is why hospitalityInside.com compares the hotel benchmark providers themselves. The conclusion: hoteliers, banks, consultants and investors believe in deceptive safety. Above all, the major providers such as Deloitte in London and MKG in Paris refuse transparency. In England, the market weight is shifting in favour of the newcomer - The Bench. Vienna is the place of birth of another international database starting in 2007. Austria itself sees a new separate government-supported benchmark system. The benchmark market is restructuring itself.

Benchmarking: What hotels, developers, consultants and bankers think
Useful only in certain aspects - or not at all
10.11.2006

Augsburg. Hotels favour using the figures of benchmark providers. Project developers, banks and consultants prefer keeping their distance. The opinions about the usefulness of these collected market and industry data range from strong loyalty to extreme disapproval. A survey among those all of whom benchmark providers claim to be their customers.

Prof. Dietrich Kropfberger: "What is Benchmarking?"
Learning from the best
10.11.2006

Salzburg. The term "Benchmark" comes from topography and describes the "orientation or reference point used for directional or altitude measurements". Benchmarks in economics are orientation points in the landscape of competition. They represent key standards for the measurement of critical success factors. It's for this reason that benchmarks are continually changing. More than simple classic key data, benchmarking means: Learning from the best! An Austrian professor explains.

Choice Europe to hand back franchise
3.11.2006

Munich/Silver Spring. On November 30, Choice Hotels Europe Group will hand back its franchise agreements to its parent company of Choice Hotels International in the US. The outcome will be a new, still unnamed, pure operating company, which will not be bound exclusively to Choice.

Accor checks virtual hotel
6.10.2006

Stuttgart. Accor Germany has now digitalised a complete Ibis-Hotel. Together with the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, the hotel chain has created an entire hotel in virtual reality and in so doing made a few interesting discoveries.

Swiss hotel industry at loggerheads
29.9.2006

Zurich. In the course of its press conference last week, Hotelleriesuisse explained its revised star classification, emphasised the collaboration with Switzerland Tourism and displayed its disapproval of the newly launched hotel assessment system of the "Gastrosuisse" host association. The Helvetian star wars continue.

Small chains: Seetel
The Masters of Usedom
15.9.2006

Usedom. The German Seetel group currently consists of 15 hotels and apartment houses. 14 of them are located on the German isle of Usedom and one on Mallorca. Flaggship is the grand hotel Ahlbecker Hof in Ahlbeck. The imperium of the Seelige-Steinhoff family continues to grow. They are now even quietly thinking about expansion outside of Usedom.

Survey on hotel purchasing completed
8.9.2006

Frankfurt/M. A scientific study initiated by the purchasing company of Progros deals with purchasing in the German hotel market. The survey comes with sobering results, but it also identifies potential for optimisation and provides numerous recommendations. In February, the beginnings were already presented at the "topsupply" congress in Leipzig. Now the study can be bought.

Operators in Germany: LSF Hotels
Concerted power from Texas
25.8.2006

Frankfurt/M. No later than when they appeared jointly with 78 hotels in Germany, France and Switzerland at this year's RDA workshop in Cologne has LSF Hotels become a little bit more popular. Hidden behind this name are hotels of the Texan Lone Star Fund. They manage hotels under several brand names and even have a separate franchise concept for Europe in the F&B sector.

Operators in Germany: Success Group
The big brands and Success
18.8.2006

Frankfurt/M The Success Group based in Frankfurt am Main will soon operate twelve hotels. Objective for the group is to win more hotel group character through partnerships with big brand names such as Express by Holiday Inn, Hilton and Accor. The group is also active in clinics, rehabilitation and health care facilities.

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