Maria Puetz-Willems is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online trade magazine hospitalityInside.com, founded in 2005: a medium following journalistic standards and ethics, bilingual (German/English) and free of advertisements for the sake of credibility. With a focus on Europe and international trends, hospitalityInside has readers in 20 countries, with the vast majority from real estate, investment, finance and operations.
With the HospitalityInside Think Tank (HITT), the publishing company launched a thought-leadership event for sustainability and innovation in 2018. Also focused on Europe, HITT has since moved from Berlin to Amsterdam and Brussels. Talking plain text, with top-class experts, non-industry peers, in a small selected circle (hitt.world).
Prior to HospitalityInside, Maria worked for 15 years as a freelance journalist for national and international media from the business, lifestyle and hotel trade press and travelled the world. In 2002, she published her first specialized book on"Wellness + Wirtschaft" (Wellness + Economy).
She established the ITB hotel conference (2006-2017) and is still running the annual 'Hospitality Industry Dialogue' (conference) at Europe's largest trade fair for property and investment, Expo Real Munich (since 2008). She is also a Co-founder of Hotels Tomorrow (hotelstomorrow.eu), a European hotel investment event.
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