IHG Hotels & Resorts, one of the world's leading hotel companies, is proud to announce the continued growth of one of its much-loved global brands -Holiday Inn Express - with the opening of a brand-new hotel, Holiday Inn Express Dusseldorf - Hauptbahnhof, the largest Holiday Inn Express in Europe.
TFE Hotels' 126-key Adina Apartment Hotel Wiesbaden will throw open its doors on November 4. The hotel is the first Adina property in the greater Frankfurt spa region and one of four new Adinas to open in Europe this year.
One of Europe’s largest family-run hotel groups, Novum Hospitality, announced today they implemented Duetto, hospitality’s innovative software as a service provider of revenue strategy solutions, to provide cloud-based revenue management solutions to yield more than 20,000 hotel rooms across Europe.
In the first three quarters of 2021, approximately EUR 1.48 billion was invested in hotel properties in Germany. Compared to the same period last year (Q1-Q3 2020: EUR 1.70 billion), this represents a decline of about 13 percent. The reason for this, according to the internationally active real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield (C&W), is the extremely strong Q1 2020 (Q1 2020: EUR 1 billion), which was not yet affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Transaction activity was relatively even at around EUR 500 million per quarter. Portfolio transactions were the exception: out of 44 transactions, only three were concluded as portfolio deals. Individual property deals accounted for approximately 87 percent of transaction volume. The average transaction size was around EUR 34 million.
Berlin’s hotel industry reported its second-best occupancy and highest room rates of the pandemic-era, according to preliminary September 2021 data from STR.
Sascha Dalig has been at home in the hotel industry for over 25 years. Beginning with a classic apprenticeship, the trained hotel specialist has sought the way into strategic management through various positions with chains and individual hotels.
Hyatt announced today that a Hyatt affiliate has entered into a franchise agreement with EuroAtlantic Group for Hyatt Place Düsseldorf Mercedesstrasse at Tadao Ando Campus & Tower. The hotel will mark the second Hyatt Place hotel in Germany, joining Hyatt Place Frankfurt Airport. Together with Hyatt House Frankfurt Eschborn, Hyatt's select service brands continue a strong growth trajectory across Germany and Europe, expanding in markets that matter most to guests and World of Hyatt members.
From 9 to 11 March 2022 live on the stage of the acclaimed eTravel World segment, the focus will be on how to deal with the long-term fallout of the pandemic. For this reason, ITB Berlin is now inviting papers on the key topic of Travel Technology & Sustainability. Speakers have until 31 October 2021 to secure their slot at the eTravel World.
Daniel Hunger becomes General Manager of the Steigenberger Hotel Am Kanzleramt in Berlin.
Peter B. Mikkelsen will lead the Steigenberger Airporthotel Frankfurt with effect from 1 October 2021.
Strong partners have come together to assist with an integrative education programme entitled “Football meets Culture”. In Frankfurt am Main, local supporters of the initiative introduced themselves and described their work with socially disadvantaged children.
33 years ago, Joachim Marusczyk was a young public servant at the headquarters of German railway company Deutsche Bahn and a man who was always one step ahead. He was responsible for the revamping of major stations and for hotel and catering leases. Then he had the idea of developing a standardised and high-quality hotel product to be located at major transport hubs.
TFE Hotels continues its European expansion with the opening of their largest Adina Apartment Hotel, the 234-key Adina Hotel Munich, this October..
Ahead of this year's International Hotel Investment Conference (IHIF), Hilton (NYSE: HLT) has signed a franchise agreement to open Hilton Heidelberg, a 244-room upscale hotel in Heidelberg's city centre. The property will undergo a major refurbishment before welcoming guests in Summer 2022. The hotel is owned by Invesco Real Estate, the global real estate investment manager which acquired the property in 2017.
Job seekers are now able to submit applications to Deutsche Hospitality within only two minutes by reaching for their smart phones and leaving a simple voice message. This new system has been made possible thanks to a cooperation agreement with the Heidelberg-based software development company Talk’n’Job.
STR's preliminary July 2021 data shows Berlin with its highest performance levels since the start of the pandemic.
Ruby Hotels, the Munich-based hotel brand and pioneer of the 'Lean Luxury' philosophy, led by Michael Struck, CEO and founder, has launched its first Cologne hotel, Ruby Ella. The brand new hotel opened on June 7, 2021, and is the eleventh hotel of the Ruby Group.
Lübeck, known as the "City of Seven Spires" for the Gothic churches that punctuate its skyline, is set to become home to an IntercityHotel by 2023. The new build hotel will extend over six storeys and will include 176 rooms, a spacious lobby, a restaurant, a bar and various conference facilities. As is the case with all new generation IntercityHotels, interior design will be by the Italian architect Matteo Thun. The project is being realised as part of the existing cooperation agreement between Deutsche Hospitality and the "Commerz Real Institutional European Hotel Fund", via which Commerz Real, a property subsidiary of Commerzbank, has acquired the future hotel from the developer GBI.
For the first time in over 275 days, data from SiteMinder’s World Hotel Index reveals that on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, the volume of bookings to hotels in Germany again began exceeding the global average.
A new report by SiteMinder, the world’s largest open hotel commerce platform, sheds light on an evolved German traveller with significantly more demands and higher expectations of the hotels where they stay.