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Duesseldorf. Hotel groups with fewer than 10 or more than 40 hotels are not rare in Germany. Lindner Hotels & Resorts based in Düsseldorf, however, have managed to be successful with hotels numbering somewhere in between these figures. Yet this is all to change. Another European expansion wave is on the cards.
Atlanta. U.S. hotel owners paid management
companies 8.9 percent more to operate their properties in 2005 than they did in
2004. This increase in management company compensation occurred during a year when hotel revenues grew just 8.8 percent, and profits jumped 15.5 percent.
Munich. How do the "Top 10" German hotel companies approach the subject of data protection? What's their customer orientation policy when guests make use of their right to information? A second study of this sort showed data protection was being taken seriously, but not seriously enough. Lindner Hotels were superb, whilst Intercontinental and Accor showed most need for improvement.
New York. hotels.com, which is owned by Expedia Inc., is warning nearly a quarter-million customers that they may have had their credit card numbers stolen, following the theft of an unencrypted laptop belonging to the travel website's auditor, Ernst & Young.
Wiesbaden. There are only a handful of hoteliers in Germany who manage to operate several 4 and 5-star hotels successfully that are independent of renowned major chains. In this edition, hospitalityInside.com would like to introduce two of these: Althoff Hotels & Resorts and the Arkona plc.
