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Who is behind Raffles?
22.7.2005

Singapore. Raffles Holdings is owned by the largest listed property companies in Asia, CapitaLand Limited. The background: 

Sabre Holdings completes acquisition of lastminute
22.7.2005

Southlake/London. Sabre Holdings Corporation announced two days ago that the acquisition of lastminute.com plc by Travelocity Europe Limited has been completed.

Travel Managers expect specific solutions from Hotel Sales
Sales: Still unprofessional and uncoordinated
15.7.2005

Rust. Travel managers complain that hotels are still offering their services in an unprofessional manner and they expect precise answers to their questions, not just sweet talk. Given the enormous amount of uncoordinated sales visits and their own stringent guidelines, more and more companies are losing patience. An HSMA workshop has predicted that rigid sales procedures could result in a serious loss in turnover.

"Pisa Study" on distribution: Purchasing bosses reflect on supplier performance
Sales remains a permanent construction site
15.7.2005

Meerbusch/Düsseldorf. The study is two years old, but its explosive force has lost none of its strength. Whilst the sales training and development consultancy Mercuri International conducts the "Pisa Study of Sales' Performance" for a second time, the rest of the hotel industry remains largely oblivious to its existence. hospitalityInside would therefore like - in connection with the discussions from the HSMA workshop on the changing demands placed on suppliers - to reiterate a number of core statements.

50plus Hotels joins forces with company health insurance 
15.7.2005

Munich/Hamburg. The consortia 50plus Hotels Deutschland are official partners of the company health insurance scheme of SPAR Handels-AG. The goal of the partnership is common marketing and trade fair presence.

Communication with the silver generation:
The language of the age is authentic
15.7.2005

Nuremberg. Today's older generation is not going down the same route as 20 years ago. And: it has got a very fine ear, when it comes to being communicated with - that was the main thesis of the address of Andreas Reidl, Agency for Generation-Marketing, at the GfK 2005 Conference in Nuremberg last week.

The conference specialists: Dolce International - a portrait
Only with professional conference guidelines
8.7.2005

Monvale. Dolce International with 22 conference and resort destinations, specialist in the field of international conferences and events, has further expansion plans. Dolce founder, Andy Dolce, proceeds with care. A  portrait.

Conrad Hotels - The Milestones
8.7.2005

The history of Conrad Hotels in figures:

Hilton is jazzing up its first-class brand to become a luxury product
Conrad Hotels on the high-end market
8.7.2005

Brussels. Hilton is jazzing up an old brand: The 4-star Conrad Hotels is advancing to a 5-star brand and the current 17 hotels are planned to increase to 50 hotels within the next 5 years. CEO Dieter Huckestein is working on the profile of the luxury brand. At the moment, only buzzwords are recognisable.

Who will buy the Louvre hotels? Luxury pearls like Crillon Paris affected
Family Taittinger aims at cashing in
1.7.2005

Toray. The French Taittinger family, the major shareholder, is receptive to selling its shares in Société du Louvre. First names are circulating regarding bidders for the 900 hotels incorporated in the group that has been operating under the name Louvre Hotels since March 2004.

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