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Marrakesh. Marrakesh is booming. For three years, real estate prices have been exploding. Developers from France and England are pushing into Morocco and investing in property and timeshare residences, while VIPs and actors are building their second homes in and around Marrakesh. By 2010, the tourism plan is scheduled to make 80,000 new hotel rooms available. The terror acts including those in Casablanca in 2003 have dampened the euphoria a bit. Despite this, tourism is growing at a double-digital rate. A study about Marrakesh.

Wiesbaden. Unknown hotels are located next to legendary ones as equals, hideaways next to hip hotels, and all of them come with a unique quality: the personal flair many travellers dream of. In times of "quality versus quantity", those organisers will assert themselves that manage to cultivate their niche. One of them is The Mediterranean Experience from England. 40% of its hotels are often not listed among other comparable operators, says the Managing Director of the company's office in Wiesbaden, Germany.

St. Gallen. This and next year, the number of overnight stays in Switzerland is to grow by one percent. Schweiz Tourismus wants to have significantly more Russian guests.

Munich. The real estate conference "hotelforum" in Munich is back. Following the cancellation of last year's special congress as a result of timetable clashes, this year a two day programme is planned for the coming October including the award ceremony "hotel real estate of the year". Nominations are presently running.

Vienna. The Austrians, generally the first on the trail of new trends, have identified the authentic, individual offer with depth of content as particularly promising for the coming summer. At the same time, the national tourism organisation Oesterreich Werbung by no means intends to exclude the possibility of a campaign pitched against the negative developments of overnight stay figures.