Turn of the tide for the Buehlerhoehe, too? 

 

Heidelberg. "Hotels are not my dream investment," says Dietmar Hopp, founder of the software giant SAP and today, a sought-after billionaire and investor in various fields of business. That sounds somewhat dispassionate, but it is not at all. Dietmar Hopp, a calm person as a rule, is very explicit when talking about the current quarrel with the Spanish NH Hoteles concerning the Buehlerhoehe. The grand hotel near Baden-Baden is the most exclusive hotel property owned by the Hopp family. Once again, Dietmar Hopp is demanding the operator NH "to leave the Buehlerhoehe and make an indemnity payment". An interview about Hopp's hotel trouble and hotel plans.

Pompano Beach.  Within 20 years the spa’s image turned from a "loss leader" to a "profit center". If a hotel’s goal is to have a profitable spa, it is important to understand, compare, measure and monitor some of the key metrics related to revenues, payroll, operating expenses and net profits. In the United States some companies already changed their financial reporting system to Uniform System of Financial Reporting for Spas which may remind hoteliers of USALI, the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry. Judy Singer, wellknown spa consultant in the United States and member of hospitalityInside.com’s pool of experts, explains the financial basics of benchmarking.

Madrid/Nuremberg. The Spanish NH Hoteles, Europe's third largest business hotel chain is beginning a whole new chapter in its development. In future, it will be developing resorts consistently. Apart from this, it will develop a new "luxury fashion brand": the first project opens in Milan as early as next year. In the course of the opening of the NH Hotel Nuremberg last Tuesday, the management revealed lots of news and numerous details.