News & Stories
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.
Hanover. In collaboration with environmental management of TUI AG, TUI Hotels & Resorts awards the group's own "EcoResort" certificate for the first time in the course of the 2006/07 winter season.
Frankfurt/M. A new market place operated by Verband Deutsches Reisemanagement provides job offers and jobs-wanted ads in the fields of business travel, mobility and event management. The new VDR job market called "Travel to Jobs" has hit the Internet.
Hanover. The business travel section of TUI Leisure Travel, the German travel agency division of Europe's leading travel company, is to be expanded under the brand "First Business Travel".
London. Unique to the hospitality industry, "Sleep06" is a trade event that combines an exhibition, awards ceremony and conference. In London, the event brings together a worldwide audience of all those involved in the creation of new hotels: owners and operators, architects and designers, investors and developers, financiers and consultants.
Zurich. Andreas Schmid, President of the Executive Board of Kuoni Reisen Holding since 2002, wanted to sell First Choice, the Swiss travel firm. However, the secretly arranged deal fell through when the management got wind of it and opposed it so vehemently that the whole thing failed. Now, Andreas Schmid has resigned.
Budapest. Budapest's hotel market is in motion. It is, above all, the 5-star sector that benefits from the rising demand. However, the competition among the top hotels is growing.