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Media coverage on the HOT premiere 2025

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Between heat records and hot questions - The Hotels Tomorrow (HOT) premiere was a success

Paris on Monday and Tuesday of this week: Inner-city temperatures reached a staggering 40 degrees. Both people and industry feel HOT - Hotels Tomorrow at the same time. The abbreviation for this first "unconference" could not have been more fitting. After only three months of organisation, 48 speakers discussed with around 180 participants, all at C-level. The spell of a premier was broken by the unsettling, razor-sharp keynote speech."''
4 July 2025
hospitalityInside.com
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EU calls hospitality for urgent collaboration - Hotels Tomorrow started direct dialogue between politics and investors

"… Nikolina Brnjac [Member of the European Parliament and former Croatian Minister of Tourism] asked the audience a simple question: "How many of you know that there is a tourism taskforce in the European Parliament which aims to coordinate policy across Europe?" … Susanne Kraus-Winkler [Chairwoman of the Federal Tourism and Leisure Industry Division of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber] … warned of 'over-competing regulation', where one country might go far beyond the original EU intent, adding unnecessary burden. … Mathieu Dracs [COO Extendam] operates across Europe, buying and repositioning hotel assets… 'We want to do things right... ESG, sustainability, all of it. But let us do it in a way we can handle.' "
11 July 2025
hospitalityInside.com
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Different takes on hospitality growth

… The thread running through this year’s Hotels Tomorrow conference in Paris: clarity of purpose, not scale, will define the next phase of hospitality. … Across the sessions, the shift was clear. Asset accumulation is no longer the sole metric of success. Instead, operators are prioritising margin, product-market fit, and resilience. ESG is moving from reporting to embedded practice. And franchising is now being dissected deal by deal. … The conversations in Paris suggest that investors agree. The future of hospitality will not be won by those with the longest pipeline, but by those who can prove they know what it's worth. … These sessions at Hotels Tomorrow 2025 highlighted several clear industry trends …
15 July 2025
hotelanalyst.co.uk
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Platform fashion

… Platforms, not just assets, are now in vogue. This is the view of Gaël Le Lay, co-founder and CEO of Petra-Hova Hospitality: "If you don't operate the box, you can't create the value." … "Otmar Michaeler of Falkensteiner Michaeler Tourism Group described how his firm had raised over EUR 70m via crowdfunding. 'These investors are becoming our guests - they are loyal before they even arrive.' Michaeler described crowdfunding as a dual-purpose instrument that not only supplies development capital but also strengthens guest loyalty and reduces the cost of customer acquisition. … Hans Meyer, co-founder of Zoku, explained how his brand has shifted from a pure hospitality operator to what he called a 'neighbourhood connector.' … Saurabh Chawla of Westmont Hospitality Group emphasised local intelligence as a prerequisite to deal execution. 'Europe isn't one market. Italy alone is ten markets.
15 July 2025
hotelanalyst.co.uk
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Believe in the capital markets and in yourself - The CEO talk of Taj Hotels, Essendi and Mama Shelter at HOT

…. [Gilles Clavie, CEO Essendi] "The guaranteed loan from the French government helped, but it took a lot to develop a strategy that would result in the loss of hundreds of hotels without causing the company to suffer an infinite loss in value." … [Puneet Chhatwal, CEO IHCL/Taj Hotels] "A high level of debt or lacking financial scope becomes immediately visible in the market value and in the perception of the clients. The capital market mirrors this development – independently from location and legal structure – very clearly." … [Serge Trigano, founder of Mama Shelter] "In the Trigano family, we work with instincts, not with consultants," he explained with a wink.
18 July 2025
hospitalityInside.com

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