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Hanover. The new winter catalogue with its rounded corner smoothes out the rough edges of your holiday: This was the idea that the new advertising agency presented Robinson Clubs with in the design of their winter catalogue 2005. In contrast to what other operators have announced in recent weeks, Robinson is not planning a lasting price war and has announced the tightening of concepts and its figure analysis.
Hanover. A new catalogue is to round off the success of the Robinson Clubs next year. The club enterprise, a subsidiary of TUI, is regarded as extremely successful, and this notwithstanding the lack of published figures. At the presentation of the new winter catalogue, hospitalityInside spoke to Managing Director Carsten Rath, a former hotelier, and asked, amongst other things, what classic hotels and resorts can learn from the clubs.
Adliswil. During this year Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts will add with a third Cruiser, the Royal Lotus, to it's successful fleet contributing millions of euro to the company.
Atlanta. According to the Vacation Rental Managers Association, guests are increasingly asking for WiFi, the wireless high-speed Internet access, also dubbed WLAN.
Athens/London. Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the enigmatic founder of the cheap airline easyJet, has once again managed to cause a stir. Following the more or less successful ventures into various fields of business, easy is now preparing for an attack on the last bastion of luxury tourism - the cruise. Since May, budget beds at sea have been on offer from 75 Euros per night. And soon from 27 Euros.
Frankfurt. SriLankan Airlines and the Sri Lankan Tourist Board are together to embark on an international advertisement campaign throughout all important European markets, in the Middle East, the Far East and South Asia at a cost of over three million Euros. The island hopes thereby to massively win back tourists.
Frankfurt/M. "Meeting View Express" is the name of a new portal combining the benefits of a special event company credit card with the analysis by an event software. American Express and RemoteEvent are cooperating.
Bremen/Frankfurt. With the brand "TQ3 Events made by airtours" the travel giant TUI responds to increasing demands in the field of meetings, incentives, congresses and events.
Podgorica. The small country of Montenegro has ambitious plans: a tourism master plan which envisages mega bed numbers has been passed, there are incentives for investors and by the end of this year all hotels in the young south east European state should have been privatised.