News & Stories
Zurich. Two Swiss entrepreneurs are now pushing ahead in the "Health Care Residences" segment. From their base in Zurich, they have set up a company which combines quality residences with additional medical services.
Munich. The fund market is moving into the limelight: on February 7, 2008, the results of the "Gesamtmarktstudie der Beteiligungsmodelle 2008" will be presented to the public for the first time in the course of the Feri Symposium. In the meantime, the symposium has established itself as the industry's prelude event of the year.
Vienna. At the beginning of February "The Ring" is exklusively booked by the Alumni of the famous Cornell University in the US for their EMEA regional meeting. Guy Dittrich looked upon the hotels promises in design and function und checked what the slogan of the place "Vienna’s casual luxury hotel" promises.
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London. The current turbulence in the market has affected hotel investors' yield requirements for new acquisitions however some Central & Eastern Europe cities are showing stable yield requirements in the medium term indicating continuing investor interest in the region - reports Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels' latest issue of the Hotel Investor Sentiment Survey. According to the report, Germany's hotel investment market becomes one of the leading countries in 'buy intentions'.
Munich. This book is the first of its kind, and enters the market at a time when real estate and investment discussions have finally gripped all of Germany. Under the English title of "Hotel Real Estate Management", the book describes basic knowledge about hotel real estate as well as special areas and case studies.
New York. Taking its indoor style to the outdoors, IHG's upscale extended-stay hotel brand, Staybridge Suites, just announced another way how to encourage guest interaction and fostering a sense of residential community among long-stay guests.
Bregenz. The sensation comes at the beginning, the profit at the end. When it comes to tourism architecture, daring new concepts pay off, as the Austrian study of "Architektur macht Gaeste" shows. "Less than one percent of all tourist buildings in Austria belong to modern quality architecture," says the architect Bibiane Hromas about the current situation in front of roughly 100 tourist experts and architects at the start of the symposium of "Architektur macht Gäste" in Bregenz. But avant-gardists of the scene revealed: innovative construction projects pay off in economic terms as well.