The situation in the hotel property sector is still very good. Players from the hotel and property industries meet at Europe’s biggest trade fair for hotel property and investment to discuss the latest developments and make important contacts.
The investment volume of the hotel industry in Germany is about 1.9 billion euros. This is due to the busy construction industry, expansions and new hotel brands, in which local and foreign buyers roughly have equal shares. EXPO REAL is the ideal point of contact for communication and networking with stakeholders and key players in the hotel industry. But apart from the joint booths “World of Hospitality” and “hotel lounge by PKF” there are many individual booths of leading exhibitors from the hotel property sector.
The well-established joint booth “World of Hospitality” was one of the top destinations for visitors was interested in the hotel industry. 28 domestic and foreign exhibitors from the entire value chain, from investors to hotel operators, were once again be represented there. The stand thus offered contact persons for the entire range of topics relating to location search, hotel development, financing, investment and the operation of hotels.
More than half of the exhibitors was hotel groups or operators: Achat Hotels, Barefoot Hotels, Choice Hotels, citizenM, easyHotel, Kempinski Hotels, King’s Hotels, Letomotel, LFPI Hotels, Plaza Hotel Group, Prizeotel, Staycity Aparthotels, Scandic Hotels und TUI Hotels & Resorts. In a further development of the joint stand, the two owner-operators AccorInvest and Gorgeous Smiling Hotels were presenting themself for the first time with their own stand format on an additional area next to the main stand.
Also hotel developers, consultants and investment companies show a strong was represenced: Aroundtown S.A. (Primecity), Christie & Co., Drees & Sommer, HCS Solutions Group, Hotour Hotel Consulting, DSR-Hotel Holding, Hotel Affairs Consulting, Jung & Schleicher Rechtsanwälte, Select Hotel Advisory Service, Treugast Solutions Group. For the second time, the destinations Hofer Land, Fichtelgebirge and Bayreuth Region was taking part.
The table of stand organizer HospitalityInside was touch point for subscribers, network partners and those interested in all hotel topics. Here visitors could got informationed about the next innovative HospitalityInside Think Tank for digitization and could participated in the current Investment Barometer Survey of HospitalityInside and Union Investment. Subscribers and all who wanted to become subscribers could also got a first impression of the new website of hospitalityInside.com and try it out. We are looking forward to your suggestions for the new online platform of HospitalityInside.
PKF hotelexperts, the internationally renowned market leader in hotel, tourism and leisure consulting, organizes the joint “The hotel lounge, organized by PKF hotelexperts” booth at EXPO REAL. This was where leading hotel groups and players from the tourism and leisure sectors met in a relaxed lounge setting.
The numerous participants 2019 included:
