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Utell® Hotels & Resorts Celebrates 80 Years of Innovation

The world's largest and most experienced hotel representation service, Utell® Hotels & Resorts, is celebrating 80 years of innovation for customers in 2010. This unprecedented anniversary is marked in the first two months of 2010 by the addition of several distinguished international hotels to the Utell portfolio, which portend another 80 years of leadership success to be enjoyed by Utell's customers.

Jörg Krauss has been appointed as General Manager at Swissôtel Düsseldorf / Neuss

He follows in the footsteps of Ronald Nilsson, who has started to act as General Manager of the first Swissôtel in India. J. Krauss comes from the NH Hotel Group, where the 40-year-old was previously the Regional Director for three NH hotels in the Heidelberg region. As the son of a hotelier couple, Krauss grew up in the hotel industry. Born in the Allgau region of Germany, he began his career as a chef in 1986 before continuing to be trained as a hotel manager. In 1992, Krauss joined the Hotel Eiss in Leonberg as an assistant manager - a year later, he moved to the Astron Hotel Hirschberg/Heidelberg where he was soon promoted to Deputy Manager and then General manager. In 1997, he was appointed to the same position at the Astron Hotel Oberhausen and between 2000 and 2006 managed the Astron Hotel Heidelberg. Between 2003 and 2004, he handled the takeover of the Astron Hotels in the Bergstrasse region by the NH Hotel Group. Since 2005, he has also been the manager in charge of the NH Hotel Hirschberg as well as being the regional director for the south-west region, at times responsible for 7 hotels with a total of 200 employees. Since 2007, Jörg Krauss has worked as General Manager of three NH hotels in the Heidelberg region with a total of 330 rooms and 80 employees.

Grand Opening Of Aspria Hotel In Berlin | Germany’s Smartest City Retreat

Berlin is modern Europe’s cultural capital city, drawing visitors with its captivating blend of recent history and the dynamism of its artists and architects, full of wide-open boulevards and creativity. On 6 November 2009, a new and unique refuge from the bustling city will open behind the trees and noble façades of Berlin’s affluent Charlottenburg district: the Aspria Hotel, a 42-room retreat connected to a renowned 14,000m2 state-of-the-art spa and sporting club. The result: the ultimate city health and wellness resort.