News & Stories
Madrid. Grande Jolly, the hotel company founded in November of last year and led by the Spanish chain NH Hoteles, now plans the 100 percent take over of Italy's Jolly Hotels. Grand Jolly placed its offer with Italy's stock exchange supervisory body Consob on Wednesday evening.
Cairo. The American management company from Boston is the biggest operator of Nile cruisers in Egypt. In April 2006, the youngest of the now five floating hotels commenced its service - a suites-only ship with 43 salon cabins and private balconies. By the way, every room on the "Star Goddess" built in Germany, is equipped with a plasma TV and wireless Internet access. In keeping with the style of a 5-star hotel, the ship has a spa as well as a spacious "infinity"-pool on the uppermost deck.
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.