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Sebastian Riewe has been appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing at Hotel Adlon Kempinski

Sebastian Riewe has joined Hotel Adlon Kempinksi as the new Director of Sales and Marketing. Sebastian is a true sales professional and is responsible for the coordination of all sales and marketing activities in the famous hotel next to the Brandenburg Gate. At the same time, he will be in charge of a team of 20 people in the sales, event sales and marketing departments.Sebastian Riewe has gained many years of sales experience in luxury hotels. He was born in Berlin and immediately before moving to Hotel Adlon Kempinski, he had worked at Hotel de Rome, Berlin for 8 years, first as Senior Conference & Banqueting Manager, later as Sales Director and since 2012 as Hotel Operations Manager.The 37-year-old began his career in the Four Seasons Hotel in Berlin in 1999 where he completed his apprenticeship in hotel management. After qualifying, he moved to the Hotel at Gendarmenmarkt for the next two years where he worked as Front Office & Reservations Agent. In 2004, the ambitious young man moved to England where he had secured a position as Sales Agent in the Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane. Later he worked there as Group Coordinator which laid the foundation for his career in sales and marketing. In 2005, he returned to Berlin and worked at the Regent Berlin until 2008 as Assistant Group & Event Sales Manager and Sales Manager.

Vienna House Opening new Easy brand hotel in Berlin

On 1 October 2016 Vienna House will open its first Easy brand hotel in Berlin. The 152-room hotel, situated in the district of Prenzlauer Berg, presents itself as a local host for Generation Y. The young staff will manage the hotel as peers for young urban explorers, individualistic city trippers, start-up entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to discover Berlin off the beaten tourist path. The concept combines big-city appeal with local charm as a fitting complement to the neighbouring andel's by Vienna House design hotel, already a successful player on the Berlin hotel market. Vienna House Easy will open on 1 October 2016 with a bakery-style breakfast lounge, a cool bar, three creative meeting rooms, a co-working area as heart of the lobby, as well as free high-speed internet and a mobile concierge service. The first 62 rooms can be booked from 1 October. All 152 refreshingly uncomplicated, authentic, top-quality rooms will be available from 1 January 2017. Vienna House has signed a lease agreement for the hotel with Peakside Forum S.à.r.L. of Luxembourg. The entire hotel will be opened new in the Easy design. "Since we launched the Vienna House brand onto the market in February 2016, everything has changed. We are currently working to answer nearly 60 enquiries for the management or lease operation of various hotel projects in all of Europe and beyond," says Rupert Simoner, CEO of Vienna House, describing the business growth, "and more are coming in every day. We are currently in the final negotiations for additional agreements to be concluded this year. The Easy concept fills a gap that has opened up between budget hotels and the rather short-lived lifestyle hotels. We call the concept 'smart casual' and believe it is a reflection of our times and of constancy." Besides the Easy brand, Vienna House also operates a number of design hotels (e.g. andel's in Berlin, Prague, Cracow and Lodz) as well as a business concept that, in the form of the angelo Hotels, is present in Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Russia. "When we started with the repositioning of Austria's largest hotel group, I announced that we would grow to about 55 hotels by the year 2022. The enormous interest in Vienna House, with the Easy, design and business concepts, is a confirmation of my prognosis. We will reach this goal," adds Simoner. With the opening of Vienna House Easy Berlin, the international hotel group now operates a total of 35 hotels in nine countries. Vienna House Easy Berlin, Storkower Straße 162, 10407 Berlin; +49 30 666 444-0

Leonardo Worldwide at ITB Berlin to Showcase the Latest Technology for Hotels to Better Manage their Online Marketing

Leonardo Worldwide, a technology company serving the global hospitality industry, is changing hotel digital marketing for the better. The company is on-site at ITB Berlin (booth 110A in Hall 10.1) demonstrating how its Vizlly Digital Marketing System empowers hotels to manage their digital marketing with less effort, lower costs, and with better results.

hospitalityPulse to Unveil Room Assignment Tools for Waitlists and Mobile Check-in at ITB Berlin

hospitalityPulse, the technology leader in automated room-assignment solutions, will be unveiling two products this week at ITB Berlin that significantly enhance traditional and mobile check-in processes for hotel guests. pulseQueue is a check-in solution for the front desk that automates the wait-list process; when guests are ready to be assigned a room but rooms aren't ready for guests, pulseQueue goes to work. Functioning in tandem with pulseQueue is pulseMobile, a mobile tool that leverages the room assignment and queue-handling process to assign rooms checking in online based on the features guests' requested at the time of booking. Both solutions will be on display at the Messe Berlin Exhibition Grounds March 9 to 12 in Hall 10.1 / 112a.

hospitalityPulse to Showcase Solutions for Resolving Room Assignment Challenges at ITB Berlin

Hoteliers looking to take the guess work out of room assignment while simultaneously increasing guest satisfaction, revenues and loyalty should plan to visit hospitalityPulse March 9 to 12 at ITB Berlin in Hall 10.1 / 112a. Using a patent-pending optimization process and intuitive user interface, hospitalityPulse will show attendees how they can assign the most optimal room for every guest – every time – with consistent efficiency using the company's roomPulse and pulseLINK solutions.