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Wiesbaden. The long since announced expansion of Express by Holiday Inn of the InterContinental Hotels Group in Germany has finally got off from the starting blocks. Forthcoming openings and further acquisitions give Operations Manager Karl-Heinz Pawlizki reason for confidence that his three brands Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Express by Holiday Inn will soon push the 100 hotel mark.
Kitzbuehel. After the careless remark of a resigning tourism director, suspicion arose that Russians were not welcome in the posh ski resort of Kitzbuehel in Austria. Soon, words like "limitation" and "Russian quota" were making the rounds. Even though a survey reveals: "Russians? Nema problema."
Bern. So Switzerland can continue to profit from growth in tourism, the industrial association Hotelleriesuisse demands economic and political action. The conditions for tourism and the hotel industry in Switzerland are the worst in Europe, they claim. This year the association turns 125 years old - and marks its anniversary with a new quality offensive.
Florence. Starhotels was born in 1980 thanks to a entrepreneurial intuition of the Italian building contractor Ferruccio Fabri, who still controls the company which is run by his daughter Elisabetta Fabri today. This partnership results in a successful marriage between the spirit of a strong family-based enterprise and the pragmatism of the second generation’s American managerial skills. With Elisabetta’s leadership, in fact, the expansion involved also foreign markets and the opening of the Hotel de Charme in Paris and the deluxe hotel The Michelangelo in New York.
Bad Ischl. "We don't want any money for free. But there have to be interest-free loans for companies that face vultures circling above them due to the current lack of snow," demanded OEHV's President Sepp Schellhorn in the course of last week's OEHV congress in Bad Ischl. For the first time, more than 500 participants visited the important industry conference, at which hoteliers also demanded that Austria be more strongly advertised across Europe.
Kaarst. 55 hotels worldwide have already joined the Travel in Trend Hotels consortium founded in summer 2006. In all likelihood, the most important reason being: the appealing image, comparably low costs and persuasive sales team.