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CBRE analysis of the third brand alternative for investors
The boom in soft brands
4.10.2024

Soft brands - the counterpart to standardised chain brands - have been around for 25 years. During the crisis, investors are discovering their advantages all the more. CBRE summarises this brand career in the US market and adds current operating figures from the comparison of soft brand and independent hotels.  

Prize by Radisson with subtle changes
27.9.2024

Internally, prizeotel has always been shortened to "prize", but now it has become "Prize by Radisson". The economy brand is thus visibly linked to the chain. This helps with international expansion. 

Conversions and acquisitions drive the brand chains the most
The small ones are the sweetest
27.9.2024

Hotel investments, particularly in Germany, have come to a standstill. New buildings are rare, but operators are growing by creating soft brands and through conversions. All existing properties. Accor, Hyatt, IHG and Marriott report. Expert René Schappner comments.

Car parking: a profitable business for US hotels
13.9.2024

In the USA, revenues from car parking drive the hotel performance. A profitable business, as a recent database analysis reveals. Resort hotels benefit most.

Development in a team: Dusit and Generator take off
30.8.2024

Thai Dusit Hotels and Resorts have entered a strategic partnership with European Generator and Freehand Hotels to synergise their development resources to pursue sustainable international growth for their respective brands. At the same time, Dusit announced its first hotel in Austria.

Hospitality X focuses on digital tuning for traditional hotels
Utilising synergies - preserving DNA
30.8.2024

The Park-Hotel am Hamburger Zoo Hagenbeck parted ways with Lindner Hotels and joined the operator newcomer Hospitality X. The latter made its debut in 2023 with the Zipper Hotel & Apartments in Düsseldorf. Both properties are now set to benefit from each other. The founders Tobias Oberdieck and Otto Konstantin Lindner realise that Tradition cannot be translated 1:1 into innovation in all areas.

German hotel industry in summer 2024: very difficult, but still feasible
Falling into the cost trap
23.8.2024

The German economy is failing to gain momentum. And the German hotel industry is now feeling the effects of this in guest spending behaviour. It therefore finds itself in a doubly awkward position. Operating costs and bureaucracy continue to increase and interest rates remain high. The CEOs of ten hotel chains from the DACH region groan under the strain but are still managing the situation smartly. 

How F&B concepts, retirees and students raise the margins
There's more profit in it
19.7.2024

There has already been much discussion about the 'hotelisation' of traditional real estate sectors, while hoteliers are creating more services to keep a greater share of the customer's wallet. F&B concepts drive ancillary activities, and a clever guest mix secures profits per square metre.

How the top hoteliers in the Alps are coping with the crises
Maintain quality and the price!
31.5.2024

Alpin Resort Sacher Seefeld, Stanglwirt, Krallerhof, Kitzhof Mountain Design Resort: The who's who of the Alpine resort hotel industry discussed what they have learned from coronavirus at a summit in Kitzbühel. Two central statements: Maintaining quality and high prices, striving for year-round tourism and exchanging summer resorts for winter resorts. 

A new charter for the Serviced Apartment segment
24.5.2024

The Serviced Apartment sector in Germany has updated its basic overview and renamed its "Charter of Temporary Living" to "Charter of Apartment Concepts".

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