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Rome. Bernabò Bocca, the re-elected 43-year-old President of the Italian hotel association demands that his country's policy react more sensitively to tourism and the hotel industry. After all, this industry generates 140 billion euros for Italy and employs two million people. Bocca pleads for more competition in tourism.
Mittersill. Austria's oldest national park, and at the same time the largest of the Eastern Alps, opened up a nearly ten-million-euro "Edutainment Center", based on the subject of nature, last Saturday. This new, weather-independent, whole-year attraction has been built to attract 70,000 visitors and, in doing so, to support the regional hotel industry. Hitherto numbers prove: Holidays revolving around nature and subject-specific offers have enormous potential.
Augsburg. It's holiday season and the current occupancy figures play an important role in determining the room quotas for next year. Tour operators are proving flexible and talking about increasingly individual business with hoteliers, and that their desired rates definitely could not be reached in every case. Hoteliers are becoming more and more emancipated. The discussions shift from the rate to the quota and partnerships that are predominantly personal.
Duesseldorf. A whole month before the start of the fourth "Business Travel Show 2007" scheduled for 5th and 6th September 2007 in Duesseldorf, the event has already been able to record a clear increase in the number of exhibitors with 123 businesses already registered for this year.
Frankfurt/M. Under the heading "Tourism meets Brand - Brand meets Tourism", the Travel Industry Club and the German Communications Association for the first time together invite participants to Frankfurt. The one day symposium on 10th September 2007 has already secured some top speakers.
Hofgeismar. In the German state of Hesse, one community wishes to top the success of the resort Land Fleesensee in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania. The internationally active architecture office, Kraus Bohne, have already compiled plans for the so called Beberbeck Resort with five hotels and numerous tourist attractions. A letter from Kempinski has also fired the enthusiasm of the Mayor of Hofgeismar in the search for investors. If he's successful, the resort will open as early as 2011.
Frankfurt/M Investor interest in German hotel real estate is high. Because package purchases are rare on account of the lack of offers, capital interests are moving from the hotel groups to the individual hotels and from the city to the resorts. A long term analysis undertaken by the Frankfurt based management consultancy Hotour shows: German resorts are considerably more resistant to fluctuations in the economy than are their city based counterparts. Hotour Managing Director Martina Fidlschuster, also member of hospitalityInside's group of experts, describes in this article how the German resort industry has developed into a lucrative niche market
Munich. 2006 was a record year on the global hotels market. And the boom is continuing in 2007. Where developments are headed next will be analysed by experts at the 6th "Hospitality Industry Dialogue" to be held on 8 October 2007 at the Commercial Property Exposition Expo Real 2007, when they explore the question of `Hotel investment worldwide - where is the capital going, and where is it coming from?'.
Frankfurt/M. In 2006, business trips increased by five percent in Germany, but about half of them take place without an overnight stay. Stricter travel management by the companies obviously contributed to the fact that business travellers spent 8 euros less per night compared to the previous year. The results of the "Geschaeftsreiseanalyse 2007" of Verband Deutsches Reisemanagement aroused only limited enthusiasm in the hotel industry.