Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE:H) announced the opening of Hyatt House Frankfurt Eschborn, which marks the ninth Hyatt-branded hotel in Germany. Managed by the HR Group, the 190-room Hyatt House hotel is located in the well-established business area of Eschborn and aims to provide extended-stay residents a home away from home while on the road.
Russelsheim-based MERKUR Development Holding (MERKUR) and NOVUM Hospitality are continuing to extend their partnership. MERKUR, as developer for NOVUM Hospitality, is to build a new hotel at Mergenthaler Allee 23-25 in Eschborn/Taunus. The long-term tenant will be the mid-range "niu" hotel brand. When completed, the 7-storey building is anticipated to provide 176 hotel rooms and 83 apartments for long-term stays.Preliminary discussions with the Eschborn local authority have already taken place and the plans are being expedited in the framework of the existing development plan. An application for planning consent is currently in preparation and will be made during the next few weeks. Subject to approval being granted, construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2019. There are over 50 niu hotels. This is the fourth for which NOVUM Hospitality has commissioned MERKUR as developer. "We very much appreciate the strategic partnership with MERKUR and, thanks to our repeated collaboration, we are looking forward to agile processes that will bring our niu hotel to optimal completion" explains David Etmenan, Chief Executive Officer and owner of NOVUM Hospitality.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) today announced that a Hyatt affiliate has entered into a franchise agreement with HR Group for a Hyatt House hotel in Frankfurt, Germany. Expected to open in late 2019, the hotel will be owned by benchmark. REAL Estate Development GmbH and will be leased and managed by HR Group. Hyatt House Frankfurt/Eschborn will mark the second Hyatt House and third select service hotel for Hyatt in Germany, an important step towards increasing Hyatt"s portfolio throughout the country.
Based in Eschborn, Germany, Gros is responsible for food and beverage, rooms operations, brand standards and new hotel standards for 104 operating in Continental Europe across five marriott lodging brands. In 2005, Gros was appointed general manager for the new Cologne Marriott Hotel, where he stayed for three years managing a team of 110 associates. Prior to that, he was regional director of food and beverage training at the Marriott International regional office in Eschborn. He was named director of operations at the JW Marriott Bucharest Hotel in 2000. His first hotel position was as food and beverage manager, and later director of food and beverage, at the Renaissance Hotel in Istanbul. He held a wide variety of culinary jobs in Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain before becoming a management trainee and later food and beverage manager in Germany. Gros graduated with a Business Science degree from the Hotel Management School in Koblenz, Germany.
Iris Baugatz is appointed area director of sales and marketing for Central Europe. In this position, she will be responsible for the sales and marketing activities of currently 38 hotels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Baugatz joined Marriott in 1997 as sales representative at the Courtyard by Marriott Berlin-Teltow. She then held assignments at the Stuttgart Marriott Hotel Sindelfingen (sales manager, director of sales and director of sales and marketing). In 2003, Iris transferred to Berlin and became a member of Berlin Marriott opening team as a director of sales. After a successful launch of the Berlin Marriott, Baugatz moved to Hamburg in October 2004 and took over the sales and marketing responsibilities at the Hamburg Marriott Hotel. She did an outstanding job there, and in 2006 her team was recognized as Sales & Marketing Team of the Year.
Vicky Varfis is the new area director of sales and marketing for Eastern Europe. Varfis started her hotel career at the Athens Ledra Marriott Hotel as sales coordinator in 1984. Over the following years, she was promoted to sales executive, sales manager and finally senior Sales manager at the same property. From 1993 to 1998, Varfis held assignments with Business Circle, as director of conference and incentive; with Hotel Pentelikon, as director of sales and marketing; and as Greece's representative for ISL Worldwide for the FIBA World Basketball Championships Athens 98 Hospitality program. In November 1998, Varfis rejoined Marriott as director of sales and marketing at the Athens Ledra Marriott Hotel. She was awarded the Sales Leader of the Year for Marriott Continental Europe Region out of 37 hotels in the year 2000. Two years later, in 2002, Vicky and her team were named Global Sales Team of the Year for Marriott International worldwide out of 1,800 hotels.
Theo Ocks is named area director of sales and marketing for Western Europe. He was previously cluster director of marketing in Jakarta responsible for two Ritz-Carltons, the JW Marriott and the Mayflower (Marriott Executive Apartments) in Jakarta. His previous assignment was country director of sales and marketing for 35 Accor hotels in Indonesia. Ocks also has experience as director of sales and marketing in the Accor Hotels and Resorts National Sales Office in Luxembourg. Prior to joining Accor, he was with Radisson SAS Hotels in the United Arab Emirates as director, worldwide accounts and manager Travel Industry and Global Distribution Systems. He has a Bachelor's degree in hotel administration from The Hague with a major in marketing.
Mooren is responsible for the sales and marketing of 104 hotels operating in Continental Europe across five marriott lodging brands. Mooren became area director of sales and marketing for Marriott International, Central Europe, in 2004, responsible for 40-50 hotels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Previously, he was director of sales and marketing at the Hamburg Marriott Hotel, responsible for Event Management, Reservations, Sales, Marketing and Public Relations. He held individual and cluster hotel sales positions for Ramada Hotels (a subsidiary of Renaissance Hotels International, acquired by Marriott International in 1997) in Wiesbaden, Hanau, and Coburg, Germany. Mooren received his bachelor degree in business administration at Stenden University, formerly Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He currently resides in Eschborn, Germany, with his wife and two children.