Luxuous huts on hill

3-2-2012

Designer Jorge Gracia designed the environmentally hotel Endemico for the Grupo Habita in the small town Mexicali. The hotel consists out of several huts scattered on a hill. The guests are certainly not lacking out of Luxury, a pool and hot tub are carved into the hillside for beautiful views of the valley.

Bang-Bang doorknob

2-2-2012

Soviet-Russian designer Nikita Kovalev of NapalDezign designed the Bang-Bang doorknob based on the iconic Makarov 9mm semi-automatic gun of the Soviet armed forces. Funny joke for in a hotel room?

Activeion

1-2-2012

Activeion Ionator is a cleaning device on tap water. The cleanser kills 99.9% of harmful bacteria and haves also a HACCP certification and is suitable for the Green Key certificate. Also it claims a 100% safe cleaning environment for customers and employees. Additionally cost savings can be achieved of acquisition and storage.

Keep Valentine’s day in mind

25-1-2012

Valentine’s day 2012 is approaching, so Marjolein van Spronsen has highlighted a few potential incentives. Check the inspirational article for café, restaurant, hotel and citymarketing via Google Translate

Ringhotels

20-1-2012

Ringhotels, a German association of over 130 hotels, made a Monopoly game where Riga and London are replaced by hotels in the chain. They sell the game online and at the individual hotels. Do you prefer digital? Earlier we wrote about Foursquaropoly.

Building a hotel in 15 days

18-1-2012

In china they have build a 3 star, 170,000 square foot, 30 story, fully sustainable hotel in only 15 days. See the movie for the total building process. Is this the future of (hotel) architecture?

Bathtub champagne cooler

9-1-2012

Doesn’t it sound like a great idea to have chilled champagne while bathing? The design of Hammacher Schlemmer is offering the solution. By using special chrome clamps the cooler can easily be attached to the bathtub. The cooler can also hold any other beverages. Perhaps an idea for your honeymoon suite? See the champagne cooler here.

Horeca Trendgids 2012

6-1-2012

This week, the Trendgids.com (Dutch) is presented and published. Tackle opportunities, creativity, collaborate and innovation dominate this edition. Trendgids.com is a free digital magazine in which experts, including Marjolein van Spronsen (Horecatrends / Van Spronsen & Partners), give their vision on hospitality in 2012. This magazine is intended to be a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs of the industry.

Opening first island Dubai World

5-1-2012

The first island of the Dubai World project is opened this week. The Island has different luxurious facilities including a 100 seat restaurant. The exclusive island can cost members up to $10,890 per year.

Stinngo easy tool B&B websites

4-1-2012

It’s sometimes difficult to maintain a proper (reservation) website and run a Bed and Breakfast at the same time. Stinngo provides a user friendly web application to design and edit a B&B website that’s compatible with bookings via internet, mobile phones and tablets. Next to that the site is available in several languages and people can make reservations with Facebook. Subscription for VIP invitations are now available at Stinngo.com

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