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Duesseldorf. London led the way and now the "Business Travel Show" is to take place for the second time in Germany. Up to now, over 100 participants from business travel have registered for the event in Düsseldorf.

Munich. This year's "hotelforum", Munich's meeting of hotel real estate and investment experts, has been cancelled. The event would have taken place between 11 and 13 October in Munich. Simultaneously the real estate fair Expo Real announced the issues for its "hotel day".

Frankfurt/M. Competitive pressure is the mother of invention: in the coming winter season, Neckermann will send 300 customers as testers to its resort hotels. Singles, couples and families will have to pack checklists too.

Hanover. The new winter catalogue with its rounded corner smoothes out the rough edges of your holiday: This was the idea that the new advertising agency presented Robinson Clubs with in the design of their winter catalogue 2005. In contrast to what other operators have announced in recent weeks, Robinson is not planning a lasting price war and has announced the tightening of concepts and its figure analysis.

Hanover. A new catalogue is to round off the success of the Robinson Clubs next year. The club enterprise, a subsidiary of TUI, is regarded as extremely successful, and this notwithstanding the lack of published figures. At the presentation of the new winter catalogue, hospitalityInside spoke to Managing Director Carsten Rath, a former hotelier, and asked, amongst other things, what classic hotels and resorts can learn from the clubs.

Adliswil. During this year Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts will add with a third Cruiser, the Royal Lotus, to it's successful fleet contributing millions of euro to the company.

Atlanta. According to the Vacation Rental Managers Association, guests are increasingly asking for WiFi, the wireless high-speed Internet access, also dubbed WLAN.

Athens/London. Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the enigmatic founder of the cheap airline easyJet, has once again managed to cause a stir. Following the more or less successful ventures into various fields of business, easy is now preparing for an attack on the last bastion of luxury tourism - the cruise. Since May, budget beds at sea have been on offer from 75 Euros per night. And soon from 27 Euros.

Frankfurt. SriLankan Airlines and the Sri Lankan Tourist Board are together to embark on an international advertisement campaign throughout all important European markets, in the Middle East, the Far East and South Asia at a cost of over three million Euros. The island hopes thereby to massively win back tourists.