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Rezidor and Carlson make up new team
17.3.2005

Brussels. On 14 March, Rezidor SAS Hospitality, a subsidiary of the SAS Group, announced that it had concluded a partnership agreement with the US enterprise Carlson Hotels Worldwide. This puts an end to the franchise relationship between the two companies.

Annie Leibovitz took pictures of Peninsula employees
Employees are the real stars
17.3.2005

Hongkong/New York. Pageboys, chamber maids, chefs and service staff posed in front of her camera lens and emerged as the true stars. The star American photographer Annie Leibovitz stage-managed striking calendar photographs in black and white. But this was only the beginning.

Sol Meliá and Steigenberger?
17.3.2005
Palma de Mallorca. The Spanish hotel group Sol Melía has restructured its sales organisation. In this regard, their managing director for Germany , Juergen Stuetz, is moving to the Caribbean. Beside for this rumours arose that Sol Melía is in negotiations with German Steigenberger Hotels.
El viva España
17.3.2005
Brussels. Starwood Hotels & Resorts will open seven hotels in Spain and two in Portugal by 2006. Roeland Vos, President for Europe, Africa & the Middle East at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, explains this and other decisions regarding expansion policy.
Inn Side changes name of business
17.3.2005
Duesseldorf. Inn Side Hotel GmbH will be selling its hotel products under a new brand name in future. The "Inn Side Residence Hotels" will become the "Inn Side Premium Hotels".
Scandic is searching for franchisees
17.3.2005

London . Hilton International is concentrating increasingly on the Scandic brand with regard to its European expansion strategy. Its main target area is Southern Europe.

Webres acquires WorldRes
17.3.2005

Dublin/San Mateo. Web Reservations International based in Dublin/Ireland aquired the business and assets of Californian WorldRes, the online hotel reservation network last week. WorldRes will operate as a new division of WRI and continue to use its brand.

Le Méridien's aggressive expansion plans continue
12.3.2005

London/Frankfurt . One and a half years ago the future of the former french hotel group Le Meridien Hotels & Resorts was insecure. Main-creditor Lehman Brothers took over the debts of the company, joined by Starwood Hotels & Resorts which also took over 200 Million Dollar debts of Le Méridien. Meanwhile Le Méridien continues its aggressive worldwide expansion. The difficulties in defining the value of the chain grow. Behind the curtains new problems arise.

Accor Dorint SMARD GmbH:  Rob Hornman follows Steffen Weidemann
11.3.2005

In January 2005 Rob Hornmann took up his post as Managing Director of Accor Dorint SMARD, in charge of more than 50 000 Accor and Dorint hotel rooms. The company was founded in 2003 to merge the distribution and marketing structures of Accor Hotellerie Germany GmbH and Dorint AG.

Rob Hornmann

Rob Hornman had been running the sales department as Senior Vice President since July 2004. After seven years in charge of distribution and marketing for Accor Asia he moved to the Accor headquarters in Paris. There he was responsible for International Sales. Joost Serrarens and Toni Leiner will support him now in distribution.

Steffen Weidemann, former Dorint executive board member, resigned as Managing Director of SMARD at the end of 2004. Following that he has been a consultant to Accor. Weidemann had successfully implemented the branding strategy of Accor and Dorint. Marketing and distribution for the brands Dorint Sofitel, Dorint Novotel, Novotel, Dorint Resorts & Spa, Mercure, Suitehotel, Ibis, Etap and Formule 1 have merged.

Dorint Hotels manage resorts again - Turnaround in sight
Course correction with Accor's profile
11.3.2005

Moenchengladbach. Two years after the Accor Group’s partial takeover of Germany’s biggest hotel group Dorint, restructuring measures are beginning to take effect. The group’s business figures are climbing again for the first time in years. The strategies concerning Dorint Novotel and Dorint Mercure are being readjusted in close cooperation with Accor. Accor is returning the entire resort hotel management back to Dorint.

In the wake of the turbulences at Dorint, Dr Michael Theim has learned to keep his head above water. His executive board membership has recently been extended for a further three years. However, Theim’s partner in the board, Jochen Dobel from Accor, will be replaced by Daniel Vrancx. He comes from Accor as well and has been a supervisory board member of Dorint AG.

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