Happy Hotelier

A »Pressrelease of November 24, 2005 announced that the acquisition of the label Le Meridien was completed for approximately $ 225 mio by Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
Contrary to my guessing Le Meridien will continue to operate as Starwoods 8th label in addition to the seven already existing labels:

»Starwood,
»Sheraton,
»Four Points,
»The Luxury Collection,
»W […]

»Erfgoed Logies is a Dutch association of small scale accomodations and B&B’s that share as a common denominator that they are located in historic heritage properties including historic ships. It was incorporated in 1996, initially as a vehicle to obtain EG subsidies to convert historic properties into guest accomodation.
Autumn 2004 Johan Neppelenbroek en Brigitte Bormans […]

And the winner is ….Lytshuis Zilver, located in Peasens en Moddergat in the Friesland Province which may call itself “Bed and Breakfast of the year”,
Number 2 is Oerterper Gastenkeamers from Ureterp, and
Number 3 Het Boshuys from Lelystad.

This title “Bed and Breakfast of the year” is issued by Pronkkamer, one of the Dutch B&B […]

More and more people tend to book via internet and more and more word of mouth will help the loneley traveler behind the computerscreen to get an idea of where he might go.
Therefor sites whith more or less independent hotel reviews will attract more and more attention.
In Dutch »Weekend Reports takes care of this with […]

Two ladies, Constance and Marlies, publish a Dutch lanquage Weblog each at »Blogo.nl, a Dutch language Blog community.
Regularly both have surprising tips about accomodations in The Nederlands or abroad.
Constance is a Dutch stewardess and travels a lot. Her Blog is »Luxereizen.blogo.nl (Luxury Travel). In addition she maintains the Dutch language site »Shoppen (Shopping).
Marlies operates »Vakantiehuis.blogo.nl […]

March 18 and 19 maart, 2006, will bring the first edition of a European B&B Fair in Brussels in the Brussels Expo, Hall 2 (Heizel).
More info at »www.bbexpo.be