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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Tinu Sebesanu, the CEO from Trend Hospitality, says that obtaining profit is no longer the main objective in the hotelier industry, the most important aspect in the new economical context is maintaining the business above the float line.
“The first signs of the international situations were beginning to show, in Romania, in May 2008. Then we started seeing the decay in the number of people that spent a night at a hotel, especially in Bucharest, where if somebody sleeps at a hotel, it is usually a businessperson. As the number of the businesses decreased, the smaller the number of people sleeping in a hotel became. However, many saw that they still had a profit and they did not look ahead. Everybody was making a comparison with 2007, the best year that the hospitality business had ever had, a year that will not come again ten years from now.”
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Tags: accomodation in bucharest, bucharest apartments, bucharest hotels, bucharest short term rental, hotel market, Tinu Sebesanu
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
All Apartments: What should the short term accommodation system really mean, taking into consideration the fact that the regulations in the field are, generally, broken?
Irina Vrabie: It should mean an alternative to the classical accommodations means. Still, there is some confusion between renting apartments and the short term accommodation system. We don’t just rent apartments, this is the segment that belongs to the real estate agencies.
We, and I mean few companies that took this business seriously, offer much more than the simple delivery of the keys to an apartment: we provide the comfort similar to the one of your own dwelling, with everything it implies – TV cable, wireless internet, phone, but also cleaning services, assistance for any unforeseen situation, counseling.
Unfortunately, there are many so called short term accommodation companies that resume to delivering the keys of the apartment and cashing the money, and nothing more.
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Tags: bucharest, bucharest apartments, Irina Vrabie, Romvision, short term rental
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
The businessman Radu Enache who controls the hotelier chain Continental, with almost 2000 rooms and businesses of about 27 millions euro only last year, says that he has made a super crisis scenario that involves the immediate closure of a hotel once it becomes unprofitable.
“Four and five stars hotels from Bucharest became three stars hotels, according to the rates they practice. Marriott competes now with my hotel, the three star hotel Ibis Parliament. We lowered the rates at the beginning of the year, but we can’t go lower than our costs”
Said Enache, that charges at a three star hotel with an average of 60 Euros per room, discounts included.
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Tags: accomodation in bucharest, bucharest apartments, bucharest hotels, bucharest short term rental
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