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Munich. At the ITB, Germany's biggest hotel cooperative, the Ringhotels, introduced its new customer bonding programme catching up with the big hotel chains.
Parsippany/N.J.. The US market no longer offers significant opportunities for expansion, thus the Cendant Hotel Group focusses clearly on Europe and Asia in future. The takeover of Ramada International last December was only the beginning. “We are a company with many resources regarding investors and customers,” said Reas M. Kondraschow, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Cendant Hotel Group International, in Berlin, looking at Cendant’s wide portfolio of travel services.
Mumbai. India remains the company's main target market for expansion and the new "Palaces & Resorts" of the Leela Group are to be financed by investment funds as well.
Phoenix/Berlin. "The largest group in the world," says their slogan but now Best Western International is preaching the quality credo. At the same time the group is pushing its services via the Internet: "The days of call centres and GDS are over," says CEO David Kong.
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Miami (March 17, 2005) . Adrian Zecha, inventor of Aman Resorts, is starting up his newest luxury hotel together with ambitious hotel management students: The Setai in Florida . At Miami 's vibrant South Beach , a hotel was built with introductory rates of at least 1,000 US$ a suite.
Hamburg. For DIFA, Deutsche Immobilien Fonds AG, "satisfied lessees" is an extremely important customer bonding instrument. With the new "PartnerCard", DIFA integrates those hotels whose properties belong to it as well.
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.
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.