News & Stories
Frankfurt/M. Concierge services stop by no means at the hotel door. The experience and know-how of a Frankfurt based concierge agency are used by busy professionals, managers and banks independently of the hotel. They come to the agency for help in organising their lives and use the services as "life coach". Although the wishes of regular guests with the Leading Hotels of the World don't yet go quite so far, even there the splitting of services into various and variously expensive service levels has proved successful. The trend is clear: Confidence in the concierge is growing. A new business model is evident in this new customer relationship.
Lueneburg. This year, the German Seminaris group from Lueneburg specialised in conference hotels celebrates its 30th birthday. In early 2009, it plans to open the Seminaris CampusHotel Berlin - Science & Conference Center. With this concept, Managing Director Guenther Strube opens up a new chapter of the company's history.
Eschborn. For the first time in Germany, Progros Einkaufsgesellschaft, headquartered in Eschborn near Frankfurt, has launched an online evaluation portal called pro-CHECK allowing customers to evaluate all suppliers of Progros.
Berlin. The Berlin hotel management company Grand City Hotels & Resorts assumes, with immediate effect, an advisory position for the small group of Mark Hotels in Berlin. With this "strategic alliance", GCHR lists nine new hotels in its portfolio.
Zurich. In Switzerland, spying in the form of so-called "Fichen" which were created by Basel council members of Turkish descent and who had been observed by police authorities, are currently being discussed in the media. The report "Hoteliers planen schwarze Liste" issued by the Swiss newspaper "Zuricher Tagesanzeiger" of July 2 added fuel to the fire while the issue was taken up by Swiss media the next day.
Frankfurt/M. Nearly 600 German hotels and hotel groups have already joined the purchase pool of the Progros Einkaufsgesellschaft mbH, founded in 1986 and based in Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main. The total purchase volume of the Progros hotels increased to about 330 million Euros in 2007. The turnover liquidated and mediated by Progros increased by more than 12 percent from 93.5 to 104.5 million Euros.
Zurich "Already, hundreds of millions of Swiss Francs have been invested in the Swiss hotel classification system. Now, a new marketing idea is on the table," hotel revue reported, the magazine published by the Swiss hotel association hotelleriesuisse. Guglielmo L. Brentel, President of hotelleriesuisse, presented a new architecture of hotel classification at last week's delegates meeting.
Munich/Berlin. As regards hotel transactions, private hotels are becoming increasingly the centre of attention of international investors. A new subsidiary of Treugast Solutions Group aims at helping family businesses to evaluate their real estate themselves by using new software.