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Trend: Hotel concierges organise more and more for the guest
The new "life coaches"
16.8.2008

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.

Small chains: Seminaris Hotels
New nuance: Scientific conferences
15.8.2008

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.

Progros to evaluate suppliers
1.8.2008

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.

Grand City assumes Mark Hotels
11.7.2008

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.

Swiss hoteliers are probably allowed to generate black list
4.7.2008

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.

A 36 year old Englishman is the world's first Sleep Director
Sleepy business trips
20.6.2008

London. Sleep comes to the Lord's beloved, or so the psalm goes. But a busy modern society, getting enough of the stuff is a concern shared by most of us. Yet some lucky individuals, it seems, don't need to have to worry about sleeping on the job. Englishman Wayne Munelly has, in a very literal sense, a dream profession. Even in his office, he has a bed, into which he may recline whenever it takes his fancy. And when he leaves on a business trip, then mainly to sleep. Munelly is the world's first Director of Sleep.

Senior Vice President Sue Brush on the new lifestyle facets of Westin
Checking out happier
13.6.2008

Frankfurt. "Renewal" was the word on Starwood's lips two years ago in New York, their new motto for the future of the full service brand Westin Hotels & Resorts. At a stopover in Frankfurt last Monday, Senior Vice President Sue Brush reported on how the company has implemented this motto and what still remains to be done. Westin Hotels are to up the stakes in terms of the Westin "experience", and to include a touch more lifestyle into their concept... Owners and investors are challenged to give their support. Yet the manager reassures: The measures strived towards are ones which have high impact at low efforts.

Progros wants to expand abroad
30.5.2008

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.

Swiss hotel stars reassessed
23.5.2008

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.

Software for hotel evaluations
23.5.2008

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.

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