News & Stories
Munich. The Expo Real trade fair in Munich has become enormously attractive among the few professional commercial real estate fairs of the world. For three years, the "Hospitality Industry Dialogue" has been a permanent part of the fair. 1,300 guests alone took part last year. Messe Muenchen wants to further internationalise this industry forum round about hotel properties in future.
Dubai. The international chains overrun the Middle East. Nearly all of them announce to introduce several brands, they all describe similar locations and philosophies. Last week we presented local hotel chains and their concepts and targets, today ten global players' executives show their differences: Accor, Four Seasons, Hilton, Hyatt, InterContinental, Marriott, Millennium, Moevenpick, Rezidor SAS und Starwood.
Rome. The organisers of the new "Globe Travel 2007" see enough room for a new tourism fair à la ITB in the Mediterranean. Globe Travel is now set to take place next March, too.
Dubai. In the Middle East local hotel groups come up and grow. None of them is afraid of the oversupply in the market, each group is looking for its personal profile. The following interviews with the group's executives show the differences between Coral International, Habtoor Hospitality, Jumeirah and Rotana.
Munich. The travel shopping channel sonnenklar. TV opened the first of a planned 50 travel agencies in Munich's Leopold Street last week. With this, the TV channel takes the first step into the travel agency business.
Wiesbaden. International spa trends will be the content of a "Wellness Summit" in Wiesbaden, Germany. The conference is organized by the Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH, Frankfurt, and will take place from October 13 to October 14, 2006. Location of the conference is the Kurhaus Wiesbaden as well as the luxury hotel Nassauer Hof next door.
Berlin/Frankfurt. In 2005, German business travellers spent a total of 11.3 billion Euros in the international hotel industry. More than three quarters of this was spent inland. Welcome findings for all destinations: In 2007 the majority of German companies expect the same or even increasing frequency of business travel.
Salzburg. The merger of the two TUI airlines, Hapag-Lloyd-Express and Hapagfly, is just one of the results of the recent board meeting and closed conference of World of TUI that took place in the Salzburg region. To get rid off its reputation as an "underperformer", Peter Rothwell, the new strong tourism board member of the largest European travel group, stakes everything on the definite realisation of the vertically integrated value chain. In short: a single centrally responsible manager per market is to prevent hotels, agencies, tour operators, travel agencies and airlines from making things difficult for one another.