News & Stories
Munich. The vacation country of Italy is not making friends among its own people: every week, a TV channel denounces profiteering and its makers. In a bar in Portofino, three cups of cappuccino even cost 28 euros. The consequence: the holiday behaviour of the Italians is changing. If they stay in the country, they can still be deeply disappointed as travellers will not find any reliable hotels thanks to their chaotic classification. A fact that displeases hoteliers themselves.
Frankfurt/M. While the demand of football fans for hotel beds did not meet expectations everywhere, business travellers are pleasing the hospitality industry with bustling revenues. Last year, German business travellers spent 11.3 billion euros for hotels all over the world, twelve percent more compared to 2004. Three quarters of this overnight expenditure remained in the country.
Bad Kreuznach. Almost 70% of corporate planners dedicate less than half of their working time to the organisation of meetings. Half of all decisions are made by just one single person. These are just two finding of the Event Planner study which assessment 1,600 responses from corporate planners in Germany. The study was presented yesterday in Frankfurt.
Ruesselsheim. Consultant Peter Bierwirth now wants to shake up the MICE market with a budget initiative: Two hotels operated by his company are now offering one night's stay with breakfast and conference fee for the dumping price of 39 Euros.
Augsburg. The call for online booking for seminar and conference groups has been audible for quite a while. Now Best Western Hotels claims to have established the first of its own online conference portals for event organisers. The portal allows organisers to compare rates and thus better plan spending. On the fringes of the IMEX trade fair in Frankfurt, Dorint Sofitel and Worldhotels also introduced their internet presence. The differences between the three groups are extreme.
Zadar. "Punta Skala" is the name of Falkensteiner Hotel's first mega project, a new hotel in paradisiacal surroundings near Zadar in Croatia. The project is the biggest hotel complex in the whole of Croatia. The South Tyrolean hotel group first plans a Residence & Vacation Club concept. Biggest investor is the Austrian Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank which contributed 110 million of the total 150 million Euros for the project.
Paris. Once again news from Club Med: The French real estate and project developers Icade has acquired four percent of the Club and has committed itself to the development of luxury villas for the project.
Bonn. In 1995 the German Tourism Association carried out its study on city tourism for the first time, taking a look at more cities than ever before. The results of subsequent studies further substantiate the economic significance of this growing tourist group. In Germany itself, city tourism accounts for a gross turnover to the order of 82 billion Euros. Daytrips alone accounted for 2.2 billion day excursions in German cities and turnover of 50.7 billion Euros.