Partners and products of the 1st hospitality X-PERTS Lounge at ITB
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Berlin (February 17, 2012). The partners for the first "hospitality X-PERTS Lounge" at the upcoming ITB Berlin are now fixed: Renowned representatives from the world of IT, software, human resources and consulting. They will be present at ITB for the whole five days. Time and room for making contacts and intensive discussions. The partners, their products and current ITB presentations in alphabetical order. Meet our partners in Hall 9/Stand109!
ATOSS: In the Workforce Management business area, ATOSS ranks as one of the genuine pioneers. Fielding a comprehensive portfolio of solutions comprising Consulting, Software and Services the company assists partners in deriving the greatest benefits from their employees. Some 4,000 companies are currently managing the activities of around 2.5 million employees with the help of ATOSS solutions, including ALDI SÜD, apetito catering, Coca Cola, Deutsche Bahn, Douglas, Lufthansa, PUMA und Sixt.
At the X-PERTS LOUNGE: The firm launches the first ATOSS Hospitality Solution - a workforce management software for the hotel and catering sector. With this step, the Munich based specialist is expanding its focus to an especially services intensive sector, where demand and cost optimized staff deployment ranks as a key success factor. The incremental and scalable product concept enables professional workforce management meeting all requirements - whether in system catering, business hotels or international hotel chains.
Contact, among others: Ulli Beckmann, Sales Director Hospitality. www.atoss.com
HR Group: The HR Management & Consulting GmbH - founded by Ruslan Husry in 2009 – operates hotels and focuses in particular on the development and optimization of operations. An equally important pillar is the consulting part where partners profit from the long term knowledge of the company’s experts and their ability to adapt concepts individually to the hotel group’s needs in purchasing, revenue management, finance etc.. The current business structure focuses on the 3- and 4-star hotel market and a cooperation with global hotel players like HR’s preferred partner Accor.
At the X-PERTS LOUNGE: HR will present its business model and is open for networking and new contacts interested in a long term partnership.
Contact, among others: Thomas Borsbach, Head of Operations. www.hrgroup.eu
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Kohl & Partner: Clients of the leading tourism consulting company in Austria are famous tourism destinations, leading companies, public authorities, and well-known investors. The firm with more than 30 years of experience in the field of tourism stands for "quality in tourism". The company is being developed and managed according to the EFQM Model for Business Excellence and won the "Austrian
Quality Award” (a contest of the Austrian Ministry of Economics) for SMEs in Austria. Furthermore Kohl & Partner is an affiliate member of the UN World Tourism Organization.
Beside the German speaking markets Kohl & Partner puts a special focus on Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Currently, there are 12 offices in nine countries (Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania). The core business areas of Kohl & Partner are hotels & restaurants, destinations, touristic infrastructure, seminars & trainings.
At the X-PERTS LOUNGE: Kohl & Partner will talk about hotel master plans as the foundation for successful hotel and destination development; about credible sustainability schemes for hotels and regions; about attractive operator solutions for city and resort hotels and at the development of modern tourism organisations fit for the future.
Contact, among others: Martin Schaffer, Managing Director. www.kohl.at
MACNETIX: Founded in 2000, MACNETIX develops and manufactures intelligent software solutions based on IP - with more than 1,000 installations yet in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Core markets are in addition to hospitality shipping, retail, public & corporate businesses. MACNETIX stands for MArketing Communication NETwork Inter-eXchange.
The Digital Signage solution can be operated as customer/guest-information-system, way-guiding-, and sign-posting-system and covers all soft- and hardware equipment needed. The Multimedia-Inroom-TV-solution IPTV, developed for hotels, conference-facilities, authorities, schools and academies, fair-grounds and more, is fully customizable to fit your requests.
At the X-PERTS LOUNGE: MACNETIX will present "Digital Labelling and Information Systems" and "Modular IP Solutions".
Contact, among others: Michael Schwanke-Seer, Chief Operating Officer. www.macnetix.com
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Markus-Diedenhofen Interior Design: Cornelia Markus-Diedenhofen launched the business in 1985 in Reutlingen/Stuttgart and employs 23 permanent staff today. The aim of the hotel-focused interior designers, consultants and planers is to create objects with a unique character, based on coherent overall concepts that implement cost-efficiency factors and client requirements in addition to future-proof functionality and a timeless visual appeal.
The activities centre around new constructions, conversions and the refurbishment and renovation of hotels, restaurants and golf clubs in Germany as well as worldwide. References are, among others wellknown hotels of groups like acomhotels, Lindner Hotels, Moevenpick, Steigenberger und Rocco Forte.
At the X-PERTS LOUNGE: With the hotel industry in focus, the experts handle new builts, conversions and refurbishments.
Contact, among others: Cornelia Markus-Diedenhofen, Managing Director. www.markus-diedenhofen.de
Relais & Châteaux: The collection unites 518 of the finest and leading hotels and gour¬met restaurants in 60 countries. Established in France in 1954, the Association’s mission is to spread its unique art de vivre across the globe by selecting outstanding properties with a truly unique character and passionate individual hoteliers and Grand Chefs.
At the X-PERTS LOUNGE: The consortium will present its news "Relais & Châteaux 2012" guide to travel agencies and other travel partners as well as the new Michelin street maps for planning personal itineraries of individual travellers.
Contact, among others: Melanie Thoene, Director Member Services, Germany, Austria, Northern & Eastern Europe. www.relaischateaux.com
Siemens Building Technologies Division: Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland the world leader in the market for safe and energy-efficient buildings ("green buildings") and infrastructures. As a service provider, system integrator, and product vendor, Building Technologies has offerings for building automation, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), fire protection and security.
At the X-PERTS LOUNGE: Siemens Building Technologies focuses on the topic of "Green Buildings" - in mega cities where Siemens is committed to developing sustainable solutions for both cities and the hospitality industry. Much of the cutting-edge technologies required for this vision of the future are already available.
Contact, among others: Michael W. Hartmann, Senior Vice President. www.siemens.com/buildingtechnologies
Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN): A premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company's OpenPath commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and cost-effectively adopt unified communications. This promise is underwritten through our OpenScale service portfolio, which includes international, managed and outsource capability.
Siemens Enterprise Communications is owned by a joint venture of The Gores Group and Siemens AG. The joint venture also encompasses Enterasys Networks, which provides network infrastructure and security systems, delivering a perfect basis for joint communications solutions.
At the X-PERTS LOUNGE: SEN will present "Unified Communications", IT clouds and Hot Spot Internet Access Solutions.
Contact, among others: David Leonhard Steinbauer, Vice President. www.siemens-enterprise.com or www.enterasys.com
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Treugast Solutions Group: For more than 20 years Treugast acts as a partner for the hotel industry and ranks amongst the leading consulting companies in Europe in the following sections today: Accommodation: Hotel business, hostels, serviced apartments; Resorts: (Medical) wellness, golf and holiday resorts; Gastronomy: Individual and professional caterer, communal feeding; Leisure Industry: Holiday centers, leisure facilities, theme parks; Tourism Industry: Tourism destinations, airports, train stations; Health Care: Rehab clinics, foster homes, hospitals, retirement homes; Sports: Golf facilities, arenas, stadiums; Fair and conference industry: Exhibition halls, congress centers, meeting facilities; Nightlife: Event locations, bars, clubs.
With a key focus on the individual definition of a project, the tailor-made consulting activities promptly purvey target oriented findings in form of expertise, strategies, implementations and services.
At the X-PERTS LOUNGE: Treugast will present the first "war map": This map allows global hotel chains a glimpse into the quantitative and qualitative potential of possible locations and provides excellent preparation for the global roll-out.
Contact, among others: Prof. Stephan Gerhard, CEO. www.treugast.com
hospitalityInside: A young publishing company, highly focused on the hospitality industry is the initiator of the 1st "hospitality X-PERTS Lounge". In 2005, the publisher founded the online magazine hospitalityInside as an information network for the international hotel management and associated industries.
hospitalityInside.com is a purely editorial independent magazine entirely free of
advertisements. Its valuable content is only accessible by subscription. Online distribution ensures rapid and reliable delivery of important news - and to a readership in more than 20 countries today. The magazine is published every Friday.
The public microsite "Solutions" which is publically accessible provides specific information by the industry‘s service providers and suppliers, and "Network" - as well a public site - informs about the publishing company's activities around conferences, events, workshops and more. hospitalityInside also organizes annual hotel conferences: the "ITB Hospitality Day” at the world’s biggest tourism fair ITB Berlin and the "Hospitality Industry Dialogue” at Europe’s leading real estate fair Expo Real in Munich; for both fairs hospitalityInside also initiates hospitality joint stands.
At the X-PERTS LOUNGE: The company will announce a new platform for the hospitality industry offering market information and market intelligence tools.
Contact, among others: Michael Willems, Managing Director. www.hospitalityInside.com / red
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