Dutch Booking Sites Are Registered

With European Authorities

The Dutch Competition Authority (NMa) has received no mention of Koninklijke Horeca Netherlands (KHN) over the practice of booking sites. KHN showed earlier this week that the multiple booking sites have registered with Dutch and European competition authorities.

A press officer of the NMa had Friday morning knowing that no mention is made concerning booking sites. KHN spokesman Anthony van der Klis reported Monday that notification has been made to the competition authorities.

This creates great uncertainty about conditions around booking sites. KHN believes that the sites have much power and abuse by them. The association does not want to reveal which sites it is.

Booking Sites let you know just very accommodating to have gone with cancellations due to Icelandic ash cloud. Posting Expert Patrick Landman of Xotels.com calls the struggle KHN against booking sites a rearguard action. Also innovative bar owner Ronald van den Hoff of Seats2Meet.com previously showed a similar sound.

The sector board of KHN Hotels believes that only hotelier choice may do so if there 'no show' charges are charged or not. Guests have the opportunity to insure against cancellation but a hotelier who has no option, set KHN.

75 Years of European Hotel History

Steigenberger

The Steigenberger Hotel Group this year will be 75 years old. 1 April 1930 put Albert Steigenberger with the purchase of the European court in Baden-Baden, the foundation for the Steigenberger Hotel Company. Since a three-quarters of the Steigenberger name is now for top European hotel industry, for quality and soundness - a traditional individual family business. The company is already the third generation in the family Steigenberger.

It all started with a wash-house, to be precise with the municipal wash-house in Baden-Baden, where women were washing the citizens of medieval custom of their laundry. flourish when the spa of Baden-Baden began and was proclaimed the Black Forest town of the "Summer Capital of Europe", arose from the wash-house a luxury hotel - the European Court. Crowned heads went there on and off. The situation across the street from drinking hall and brought healthy spa shops and an international reputation. In the Depression, the hotel but suddenly slipped into the red and they borrowed much money from a merchant from Bavaria - Albert Steigenberger. When the European Court should be foreclosed, Albert Steigenberger summarily decided to buy the house. So he was more by accident hotelier and the run-down luxury hotel Baden-Baden to the foundation of the Steigenberger Hotel Company.

After a few years, the European Court had brought so much revenue that Albert Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof in 1940 was able to buy the - today's flagship of the company. The house was only four years later by the bombs of the second War destroys. In 1948, the reopening of the later, initially with 20 beds and five years, the first hotel in town was completely rebuilt. In the postwar years was followed by the Hotel Monopol in Frankfurt, which now no longer belongs to the group, the Knight's Park Hotel in Bad Homburg (1950), the Badische Hof in Baden-Baden (1949), the Palace Hotel Mannheimer Hof in Mannheim (1956), the Grand Hotel Axelmannstein in Bad Reichenhall (1956), the Graf Zeppelin in Stuttgart (1957) and the Court of Duisburg in Duisburg (1958).

Albert Berger's death in 1958 after rising to his son Egon Steigenberger - an enterprising visionary - the company, which included at that time, ten well-known hotel in Germany. Egon Steigenberger prepared the company for the challenges of the future - such as air traffic, the internationalization of tourism and the holiday - and made it in the following decades into one of the leading hotel groups in Europe.

The great role model for Egon Steigenberger was the USA. From there came the idea of airport hotels, which he implemented with the Steigenberger Airport Hotel in Frankfurt in 1969 for the first time. In one key aspect, however important the family business from always from the American model: not the uniformity of the large hotel chains was the goal, but individuality. One's own face of each house, his distinctive traditions were and are still today the largest capital of the Steigenberger Hotel. The top houses such as the Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof or the five-star city hotel in Berlin, Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Stuttgart, and the luxurious resort hotels in Germany, Austria, Egypt, Switzerland and the Netherlands are available for first class services, leisure activities, modern health holiday and exquisite atmosphere.

In the 70 years developed novel Steigenberger Resort hotels and holiday concepts with animation, sports, cultural and health programs. The prototypes developed in the Bavarian Forest: in Lam and Grafenau. By the end of the 70 was added in a number of renowned hotels: in well-known resorts such as Bad Kissingen Bad Neuenahr, or at the new aviation hub in Europe, the Frankfurt Rhein-Main airport.

FamilieSteigenbergerAfter the death of Egon Berger's Rising in 1985, the company became a limited company in which the family still holds the majority share of 99.6 percent.

In 1991 the company started with the Inter City Hotel Frankfurt in its multi-brand strategy. For the first time guests are staying at the Steigenberger Hotels in the three-star category.

members under the umbrella brand Steigenberger Hotel Group is now the brands:

Steigenberger Hotels & Resorts

Selected to lead the hotel with the tradition of European hospitality, was the dream of founder Albert Steigenberger. 2005 reflected this reflected in the 49 Steigenberger Hotels & Resorts. They stand for the upscale four and five star hotels of the company. With its motto "A world apart", these individual houses many opportunities for business or holiday, relaxation or adventure, culture or sport.

Inter City Hotels

Since the opening of the first InterCity Hotels 1991 in Frankfurt Steigenberger relies on the concept of InterCity Hotel GmbH, now 100 per cent subsidiary of the company. Overall, 28 Inter City Hotels in Germany and the Austrian capital Vienna offers the growing target groups of the time-and cost-conscious travelers and cultural cities interested traveler, a brand product in the three-star category, which by modern ambiance, the latest technology and an ever central location on the junctions ICE and IC train station and airport stands.

Today the company operates, based in Frankfurt am Main 77 hotels in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Egypt. Together they have a total capacity of 13,000 rooms. Thus, the Steigenberger Hotels AG one of the leading hotel companies in Europe. For the near future are more openings planned, including the five-star beach hotel Steigenberger Zingst, Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe in Dresden, and holiday hotels in the upscale category in more attractive locations such as the island of Norderney.

Through subsidiaries, which operate as profit centers, such as the Steigenberger Hotel School in Bad Reichenhall, the Steigenberger Consulting and the purchasing company HEAD, the company's know-how and its services to the market at home and abroad.


"At 75 there is the best Steigenberger Hotel Group in their years," says CEO Karl Anton Schattmaier. "The company has created its successful history and a consistent market-based policy, the company, to compete in the future to be successful at home and abroad."

As part of the anniversary year various events are scheduled, among other things gala evenings in the Steigenberger Hotel Berlin Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof and for tourism partners, customers, companion and business celebrities, politics and media. With unusual anniversary packages and F & B offers the hotels but also invite their guests to celebrate with him.