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German Queens Hotels: End of own brand name in sight
Best Western attracts 7 Queens
22.7.2005

Eschborn. Seven hotels that until today were Queen Hotels will now join the hotel brand Best Western Deutschland. Of a total of 24 Queens Hotels in the country, 16 trade under the name of Holiday Inn, seven under the name of Best Western Queens Hotels with just one house in Hanover remaining a Queens Hotel - at least for the moment. Further brand changes are not excluded.

Colony Capital buys Raffles - Future not clear
Pitch for the management 
22.7.2005

Sold: The famous Raffles Singapore

Singapore. The US investment fund Colony Capital, LLC, announced this week that it has entered into an agreement to purchase all of the hotel interests of Raffles Holdings Limited, comprised of 15 Raffles Hotels & Resorts and 26 Swissotel Hotels & Resorts in 35 destinations, for approximately one billion Dollars. With the Raffles purchase, Colony Capital is presented with the opportunity of solving a long standing problem - namely, the search for a management company for its own real estate interests.

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:

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