News & Stories
Zurich. Where can football teams coming to Switzerland for the "Euro 08" stay? Which top hotels will accommodate the sporting gentlemen and which will refuse to play the game? Renowned hotels refuse to accept the footballers.
Munich. Yesterday, the "fondstelegramm" industry service caused a lot of excitement by reporting about the details of a loan between Ebertz & Partner and one of its funds. It is about an intrinsic value fund 110, which was used to finance the InterContinental at Duesseldorf's top address of Koenigsallee. In this connection, fondstelegramm also mentions rumours about a restructuing of Dorint AG. Ebertz is still a shareholder of the company. hospitalityInside.com has heard about these rumours as well - and knows details.
Westlake Village. The second J.D. Power and Associates 2006 European Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study, released last week during the International Hotel Conference in Rome also ranks German Steigenberger Hotels & Resorts, Scandinavian/American Radisson SAS Hotels & Resorts, German Dorint Hotels & Resorts and Dutch Tulip Inns highest in guest satisfaction across four hotel segments.
Frankfurt/M. By the start of the German financial year on 1 October, member figures at Romantik Hotels & Restaurants International will have grown by 15 hotels in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. All in all, the consortia counts 194 members in 12 countries.
Klagenfurt. NordicFit Hotels is to be the name of a new hotel consortia set to go into operation from January 2007. Their hotels will concentrate on Nordic walkers. The idea for the group comes from the marketing agency GFB & Partners Marketing Services with offices in Austria, Germany and South Tyrol. The goal of NordicFit Hotels is to win over at least 30 hotels for a joint marketing initiative.
Vienna/Frankfurt. Together with the lawyer Florian Kreibich, Austria's Romantik Hotels & Restaurants intend to put a quick end to the stagnation in group membership figures and grow to double their size. The group's "new kid on the block", recently also elected speaker for the newly structured international supervisory board, has ideas of his own.
Munich. Ringhotels are renaming the association of their European partner hotels: "Partner Hotels Europe" is now called "Pleasant Hotels Europe". In addition, the cooperative is being joined by a new member from Sweden.
Augsburg. PR skills are generally way down on the list of priorities for hotel management. Seminar costs are being cut even here - and anyway: "Anyone can do that!" Four books, in English and German, written by 3 journalists and a PR professor, show just how wrong this belief can be. Literature for managers. Easy to read, less easy to implement.
Munich. The German "Focus" news magazine presents a new ranking. The next issue available on Monday includes a list of 550 hotels from all over the world, separated into the categories of "Luxury", "Trend" and "Price/Performance".