Network operator warns hoteliers of possible disruptions in gas supply
Bansin/Usedom (December 2, 2022). The German government claims that gas storage facilities are full. Nevertheless, hotelier Rolf Seelige-Steinhoff and eight colleagues on the island of Usedom have since received an official letter stating that the gas supply in their area may be "threatened" or "disturbed." This sounds harmless, but it's the beginning of a fine legal balancing act with the state, which is set to close the hotels if necessary in the event of a gas shortage.
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The drama begins: Seetel to close three hotels in 8 hours if necessary
Bansin/Usedom (November 4, 2022). Three of the 16 resort hotels operated by Seetel Hotels in Germany are on the German Federal Network Agency's closure list. Owner and operator Rolf Seelige-Steinhoff is said to be standing by to close operations within 8 hours. The family-run company fears a chain reaction of the most negative kind: from millions in operating revenue losses to downgrades at the next credit inquiry to mouldy real estate next spring. Rolf Seelige-Steinhoff, a successful entrepreneur and excellent analyst, predicts here what could be in store. He too has been unable to obtain clear information from politicians.
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Stuttgart (January 14, 2022). In December, all was still right with the world. Last Monday though, on 10 January, the district court approved the application of Success Hotel Management GmbH for insolvency under the self-administration procedure with the objective of restructuring. Managing Director Michael Friedrich on the background.
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Seetel CEO R Seelige-Steinhoff on Berlin financial aid that does not help at all
Ahlbeck (April 16, 2021). Many politicians have long since lost their image as role models - and they don't tell the truth either. "Grants for us are referred to as gifts," Rolf Seelige-Steinhoff, CEO of Seetel, says angrily, referring to the German government in Berlin. “These are sleights of hand." Not least because the state itself earns massively from each aid payment.
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Compensate! Dirk Iserlohe on political misconceptions about bridging aid III
Berlin/Cologne (February 12, 2021). The promises of the previous months have not yet been fulfilled and, above all, the money is still far from arriving in everyone's account ... And the German government is already granting the next, third bridging aid. Dirk Iserlohe, chairman of the supervisory board of Dorint Hotels & Resorts and campaigner for the industry, thinks that this is not help at all.
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Clean air, clean rooms, rapid tests: This helps in the pandemic
Berlin (January 29, 2021). In the course of the Covid 19 pandemic, hospitality companies implemented hygiene concepts virtually overnight during the April 2020 lockdown, in accordance with government requirements. Since autumn, one lockdown has followed another. But the politicians have their sights set on the hotels and catering businesses again and again: now their ventilation systems, among others, are coming into focus. Yes, they help, just like other technologies against the virus - and the continuing stigmatisation of the industry.
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Hotel investor Joerg Haas and his protocol about the aids disaster
Bonn (January 22, 2021). Over the turn of the year, Dr. Joerg Haas documented how the budgeted 5–million-euro profit turned into a 16-million-euro loss through no fault of his own in 2020. The hotel and gastronomy businesses of the entrepreneur from Bonn are, as many others, part of the "forgotten" large associated business groups. His Invite Group has not obtained most of the financial aids – contrary to the politicians' promises who stage their shows every night on TV.
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Alexander Fitz, CEO H-Hotels, on political nonsense and incompetence
Bad Arolsen (January 15, 2021). Alexander Fitz, CEO of the German H-Hotels and responsible for 60 hotels, is fed up with politics: senseless VAT cuts, unfair lockdowns, November lies, zero financial aid, ignorant and incompetent politicians who treat people like complete idiots ... For the entrepreneur, it's enough. He makes no secret of his frustration at this point and probably speaks from the soul of many colleagues.
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Professor Stephan Gerhard on an intervening state, basic rights and inequities in the German hospitality sector
Munich (November 6, 2020). With the second lockdown, which takes place now, in the month of November, the German hospitality industry has lost its balance: from now on it is all about insolvencies, livelihoods and the social consequences. In the background, lawsuits against the state and its regulations are piling up. Inspired by a discussion in a political circle, Prof. Dr Stephan Gerhard and Maria Puetz-Willems decided to do this interview, which shows how the constitutional state of Germany is turning into an intervening state when it comes to hospitality. And there is even a lot more at stake: the balance of the fundamental rights! Currently, the basic right to physical integrity supersedes everything. It is even forestalling the economy. But only healthy companies can guarantee a healthy economy.
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