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Podgorica. To be there right at the beginning of the development immediately appealed to Dieter Heinritz. For the last four years the former German hotelier has been out in Montenegro as a management consultant. He views the development with a more critical eye than the way it is officially presented.
Podgorica. The following report shows the most important facts and figures for Montenegro`s development in tourism and the hotel trade. Information is drawn from the ministry for tourism and the World Travel & Tourism Council:
Augsburg. The budget airline boom continues. Single operators are disappearing from the market very quickly while others are becoming well established. This is also having some effect on the regional hotel industry. In the last issue, hospitalityInside looked at the effects on Carinthia in Austria and on Stockholm, this week we investigate Hannover and Cologne.
San Juan, Puerto Rico. The new US passport requirement jeopardizes 2.6 billion US$ visitor export earnings. 188,000 travel and tourism jobs in the Caribbean could be at risk.
Munich. After the Pope-pretzel, the Pope-beer and the Pope teddy bear, there now comes the Pope package deal for the travelling pilgrim. A four page special-flyer follows "in the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI".
Villach/Lake Ossiach. "No-cost flight to alpine wellness" is the punchy slogan on the website of the low cost carrier Hapag Lloyd-Express, and: "Exclusive to HLX customers"! The Falkensteiner Hotel Urbani at Lake Ossiach in Austria has let itself into this venture. It pays for its customers' flights.
Cologne. “Weekend lovers 2” is the name of a successful travel guide of the Cologne based Dumont Travel Publishers which has published its second edition within one year.
Augsburg. The low cost carrierer's boom continues. Single operators are disappearing from the market very quickly while others are becoming well established - with a growth rate of up to 114 per cent in passenger traffic. This is also having some effect on the regional hotel industry. This issue of hospitalityInside looks at the effects on Carinthia in Eastern Austria and on Stockholm, while next week's issue will look at the effects on Hannover and Cologne in Germany. Interestingly, foreign regions clearly seem to be profiting more than German regions.
The European Spa World tries to attract tourists by creating unusual offers.The violet body painting shows where the partners are located.
Graz. With flight credits and cross border advertisement campaigns Austria's Burgenland and Steiermark along with West Hungary and Slovenia hope to entice a more international selection of visitors into central Europe's most dense region of thermal springs and healing waters. These partners form Europe's first cross border marketing syndicate, the "European Spa World". Support from the EU is at hand.
Berlin. The figures, facts and data on tourism 2004 in Germany have been put together in a new brochure by the German Tourist Association, also available on the internet.