Testimonials

Hans-Dieter Schiller

"hospitalityInside.com is an online magazine of the industry that finally offers more than the usual newsletter service or meagre short information. Therefore, it has been used as a reliable media source at Choice for some time now. With its many different subjects and categories concerning the international hotel industry, the platform offers a wide range of information about all parts of the industry.
It is obvious that the articles are based on qualified and extensive research as well as well-founded knowledge. The expertise of Maria Puetz-Willems, Editor in Chief, becomes obvious here; she has proven her knowledge and her connections in the industry at large conferences such as the ITB or Expo Real for years.
For me, especially the online accessibility of hospitalityInside.com is a great advantage: the information is not only easily and comfortably accessible - also while travelling - but it is always up-to-date. Thanks to the preparation and structuring, every target group is able to find the right information quickly, and it is up-to-date both in German and English."
Hans-Dieter Schiller, Focus Hospitality GmbH, Munich

Olaf Steinhage

"Topicality, reliability and competence - nothing more but also nothing less makes hospitalityInside.com required reading of hospitality concepts every Friday. Especially remarkable: the range of topics on the one hand, and genuine insider profoundness with details on the other hand! Excellent, Maria!"
Olaf Steinhage, Management, hcb-hospitality concepts berlin GmbH, Berlin

Richard Mayer

"Up-to-dateness und objectivity, information and research, trends and ideas, numbers and portraits are the keywords that come to our minds when we think of hospitalityInside.com. Over and over again, we look forward to the interesting and concisely prepared bulletin from the industry which arouses our curiosity and is a pleasure to read."
Richard Mayer, Director, Maritim Hotel, Munich

Stephan Interthal

"I have been an avid reader of hospitalityInside.com for many years. In particular, I appreciate the thoroughly researched, fact-checked and substantial articles about our line of business. Time and again, Maria Puetz-Willems succeeds in giving objective and detailed insights - both topical and up-to-date - into business-related facts and specific information on the hotel industry. Based on her many years of experience as a journalist, she is only too familiar with our trade, and writes on a weekly basis - quite often with a barbed pen - articles that provide valuable and interesting inside-information for us hoteliers."
Stephan Interthal, General Manager, Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center, Beijing

Joachim Mezger

"Since the launch of hospitalityInside.com, I look forward to the news from the industry every Friday, presented in a way that satisfies my need for information: clear, specific, well-researched and always available, even on trips.
Especially the genuine insider character is a real benefit. Moreover, while reading the news, you see very clearly that no potential advertising customers have to be taken into consideration. Therefore, I`m glad that with hospitalityInside.com there is a magazine in the industry that can do without lengthy special reports about "coffee specialities" or similar things and is able to report on subjects that are really interesting to me. Keep it up!"
Joachim Mezger, Regional Director, Central & Eastern Europe, Interval International GmbH / Preferred Residences, Stuttgart

Michael Altewischer

"hospitalityInside.com: The source of information about our industry. Up to date, short, distinct, precise, informative and focused on the essentials."
Michael Altewischer, Managing Director, Wellness Hotels Deutschland GmbH, Duesseldorf

Peter Tschirky

"I often glance over the online magazine and appreciate it above all because it is highly topical. In this way, I`m always up to date with news that I find interesting and consider researched in a very good and objective fashion."
Peter Tschirky, Chairman of the Management, Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, Switzerland

Klaus G. Elftmann

"The big advantage of hospitalityInside.com is the speed with which it picks up on current issues in a straightforward manner and conveys them briefly and precisely. Many daily newspapers and magazines call themselves independent or non-partisan, but in fact, are dependent on their advertising department! Please maintain your style and your way of reporting, as this represents true "freedom of the press" for me. For a hotelier abroad, this magazine is a bit of home, complemented with additional news from the international world of hospitality.
My compliments and thanks go out to all of those who make sure they keep me up to date."
Klaus G. Elftmann, General Manager, Novi Spa Hotels & Resort, Novi Vinodolski, Croatia

Elmar K. Greif

"First of all, I want to congratulate you on your idea of developing an important and efficient information instrument for the hotel industry! I have great respect and acknowledge your courage and especially your stamina to carry on despite, I’m sure, a difficult start-up phase. Especially for professionals working in foreign countries, hospitalityInside.com is an up-to-date and interesting media for obtaining information about the industry in the German-speaking countries. However, I would welcome yet more critical journalism. Do not consider subscribers! I wish you continued success and the courage to pick up on sensitive subjects as well."
Elmar K. Greif, General Manager Capella Hotel Schloss Velden at Lake Woerthersee, Austria

Erich Falkensteiner

"I have been a loyal reader of hospitalyInside.com for a long time. There are several reasons for this. On the one hand, it is important to have access to current information about our industry in our global and fast-moving world. hospitalityInside.com offers me this, especially through its online functions. On the other hand, there are only few media in the hotel industry, which detect developments and refer to future trends so early. However, these are the most important things for all persons in charge at the Falkensteiner Michaeler Tourism Group. As an internationally operating hotel and tourism business, we have to face the market conditions and are dependent on background information and detailed future-oriented industry knowledge. In this respect, hospitalityInside.com is of invaluable help. And finally, in the people’s business "Hotel", we are interested in careers and the gossip in the industry as well. In this field, hospitalityInside.com has been informing us comprehensively for a long time now."
Erich Falkensteiner, Managing Partner, Falkensteiner Michaeler Tourism Group, Vienna/Austria

Jakob Forstnig

"hospitalityInside.com is currently one of the media closest to the market in the hotel arena in Europe and for sure in Germany. It contributes to staying on top of the most important developments in the hotel world and is unfiltered. In addition it provides well researched theme-reports which are not only valid in the short term. The online concept avoids the unnecessary paper storage in the office and proves the "sustainability" aspect, so it is very current. We hope the Insiders will keep their edge."
Jakob Forstnig, Senior Consultant, PKF hotelexperts Vienna

Susanne Kraus Winkler

"hospitalityInside.com has become the most important German information platform reporting international and European hotel news combining them in a professional and highly compact way for me as a hotelier and tourism consultant. As an entrepreneur, this makes hospitalityInside.com one of the most precious sources for keeping my market knowledge up to date; it is quick and straightforward. Above all, I appreciate that Ms Puetz-Willems and her team do not simply distribute information, but also pick up and report on all important trends. In the meantime, hospitalityInside.com has become an important partner for success in the jungle of communication and it`s hard to imagine things without it."
Susanne Kraus Winkler, Managing Director, Wine & Spa Resort LOISIUM Hotel, Langenlois/Austria

Otto Lindner

"For many years, I’ve been following the journalistic work of Ms Puetz-Willems with great interest and excitement, and I’ve been an enthusiastic and loyal reader of hospitalityInside.com since the first issue. In keeping with the electronic medium, you often get first-hand information, and benefit from both speed and the well-founded research. If this online magazine did not exist, it would be missing!!"
Otto Lindner, Chairman of the Board, Lindner Hotels AG, Duesseldorf

Rainer J. Bürkle

"It is obvious that decisions need to be taken ever more quickly today. In addition, the manifold changes in our industry have to be taken into consideration. hospitalityInside.com is a great aid in this respect. It quickly transports the latest trends, changes in direction among competitors and presents an extensive analysis of the worldwide hospitality scene. And all this in two languages. I’m already looking forward to the next issue!"
Rainer J. Burkle, Area Vice President China, General Manager, The Portman Ritz-Carlton, Shanghai

Johannes Mitterer

"In a time like ours that is so fast-moving, it is important to have some well-selected information sources distinguishing itself through competence, latest news and professionalism. This certainly includes the hospitalityInside.com online magazine, which I enjoy reading regularly. You are always up to date and you get concise insider information about the tourism industry you would not find in any general economic newspaper or magazine on an international or national level. hospitalityInside.com is a medium for managers and all those interested in tourism, and is something we should not do without in our industry."
Johannes Mitterer, Hotel Director, Hotel Zur Tenne, Kitzbuhel/Austria

Elke Schade

"What`s particularly good about hospitalityInside.com is the fast spreading of hot-from -the-press news. Experts of the hotel industry are well-addressed and informed in an optimal and reliable way. The reports are factual, competently written and put things in a nutshell using clear language. New topics are often initially recognised and then enlarged upon. In this way, hospitalityInside.com creates transparency for the national and international hotel market.
Behind the scenes at hospitalityInside.com there is a very nice highly competent expert, who researches without compromise, but always acts fairly and decently. I look forward to sound information and "breaking news" in the industry every week. That`s why I don`t want to do without hospitalityInside.com and I wish Mrs. Puetz-Willems and her team continued success in the future."
Elke Schade, former Managing Director, Dorint Hotels & Resorts, Cologne

Karl Nüser

"....topical reporting, good research and a great style of writing contribute to the success of hospitalityInside.com. Keep up the good work. I`m already looking forward to your next issue!"
Karl Nueser, Managing Partner, Hotel Nassauer Hof, Wiesbaden

Robert Salzl

"With hospitalityInside.com, Maria Puetz-Willems has created a medium that has changed our personal relationship in two ways: as a constructive, but critical companion in the hotel industry, she has tried to get to the bottom of (for some quite awkward) weak spots. As a highly thought of expert, it has always been impossible to fool her, and one could count oneself lucky to get advice from her. For this, it was surely not necessary to wait for her inquiry for an interview. A single call was enough to get her opinion and that of the industry. And now? Now these calls are no longer necessary - unfortunately. As you always learn the latest news at hospitalityInside.com, and that is the other side of the coin. You are kept up-to-date everywhere and in almost every situation, and you are comprehensively informed about all recent trends. But you`re wrong, if you think you are communicating with a mere database. There is still an intelligent woman behind it."
Robert Salzl, former Head Pilot of Lufthansa and member of the foundation council of Schoerghuber Stiftung & Co. Holding KG, Munich

Rolf Seelige-Steinhoff

"The importance of our industry is often underrated. It is all the more essential that we have a corresponding network to exchange information and react to changes at an early stage. In addition to this network, there are various associations and institutions but also media networks. Here, hospitalityInside.com is taking shape as a highly efficient and up-to-date information network. In a simple and precise way, information can be accessed within a short period of time and play a role in decision making."
Rolf Seelige-Steinhoff, Managing Director, Seetel Hotels, Usedom/Germany

Uwe Niemann

"I`ve known and read your "Internet newspaper" for a long time now. In my opinion, the special attraction of your information is that I get a very quick overview about the news of hospitality with the headlines in your weekly mail. Due to the flood of daily publications and information, it is crucial for me to work quickly and rationally. Your articles are well-researched, teem with insider knowledge and are often red-hot. Photos of people or hotels complement the articles appropriately. I gladly use the databases of your Internet newspaper if I quickly need research material on the spot. Conclusion: the existing subscription will certainly be prolonged!"
Uwe Niemann, Manager, Real Estate Banking Inland 3, Deutsche Hypothekenbank

Manfred Schönleben

"With interest, I`ve been reading hospitalityInside since the beginning. I was particularly delighted about the fact that the issue of "marketing real estates via .... (e.g. freehold, fractionals, timeshare, clubs etc.)" has become a fixed topic in your magazine. Many companies have recognized the value of being able to access an up-to-the-minute knowledge database allowing research to be carried out in a profound and objective way, as it is not necessary to do the splits by generating a certain turnover through advertisement. I wish hospitalityInside many new readers and a good hand in terms of choosing topics."
Manfred Schoenleben, network partner, The Management Consulting Partners, Estepona

Frank Marrenbach

"I`m very glad that I am among the first subscribers of hospitalityInside.com. What once began as a highly promising project can be called one of the online media highlights in our industry. With its flawless research, topicality and the right key aspects, hospitalityInside.com always keeps me up to date."
Frank Marrenbach, Managing Director, Brenner`s Park-Hotel & Spa, Baden-Baden

Thomas Tritschler

"hospitalityInside.com - each Friday morning, this source of information frequently hits my desk as the first e-mail of the day. I read current headlines there before I read them elsewhere and I`m glad to have this highly professional national and international information at my disposal. I`ve been sceptical towards classic print media for a long time and I`m thankful for the freshly researched service provided by Maria Puetz-Willems and her team. Neutrally and apolitically written news concerning the industry, well-filtered insider knowledge and trends prepared in a highly topical way ensure that I`m always informed about essential developments. Thank you very much!"
Thomas Tritschler, Managing Director, Sensible Hospitality / Tritschler Associates, Munich

Thomas Willms

"Being one of the first subscribers, hospitalityInside.com has been on my Internet favourites list since 2005. Maria`s publication is a true enrichment for our industry and Fridays are hard to imagine without it. I particularly like the topicality on an international level, the diversification of topics including explosive content, the great expertise of the editorial team and the outstanding independent tourism contacts combined with no advertising and two languages. This is professional and fair journalism. I would like to thank the entire team. "Keep it up!""
Thomas Willms, Vice President & Regional Director Central, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Vienna

Christopher Bergen

"For the past few months, I have enjoyed opening my "electronic mail" on Friday mornings and finding my copy of hospitalityInside.com! My partner, Verena, and I have very specific interests in the hospitality business, mostly regarding new trends in Europe, hotel/restaurant design, development of small, luxury hotel properties, fractional ownership projects, human resource management and spa companies. Well, you seem to include most of those in all of your issues! So, for us, it makes for fun and inspiring reading.
What the "big boys" are doing is also interesting, but only as a reminder of why we have focused our efforts in the small, luxury segment of the market! You and your staff manage to "dig up" some great "insider" stories, which are always appreciated in our "connected world" where the "he said/she said" correspondence dominates the World Wide Web’s highways!
As we see the importance of "blogs" growing, also on the business side of the fence, your site provides the fresh, well-researched, "out-of-the-box" views that most discriminating industry leaders and trend followers surely appreciate. Thank you for putting on the web hospitality "inside news" that most specialized publishers would take weeks or months to put in print!
Christopher Bergen, Managing Partner, Hellberg Associates, Vienna

André Witschi

"For quite a while now I`ve had an obligatory appointment each Friday morning. Nevertheless, I keep this appointment with joy. My first click is "Surfing Maria". I congratulate our industry on this new medium and Maria Puetz-Willems on her courage to become independent with hospitalityInside.com without advertising. She maintains her style: hard but fair, well researched and realised in a journalistically accurate way. Of course I sometimes wonder how Maria once again found out about this and that, but then I`m glad that I`m also an insider and she shares her information with me."
André Witschi, former Chairman of the Executive Board, Steigenberger Hotels AG, Frankfurt

Carsten K. Rath

"For me, there are a sources of information that I absolutely trust. I know from these sources that their written content is critical but fair, independent and thoroughly researched and that top industry experts are at work. hospitalityInside.com is such a competent source of information for me. I look forward to checking my mail each Friday and finding the current issue of hospitalityInside.com. Even when I`m on the road, I know: I`m being informed on current issues.
The "maker", Maria Puetz-Willems, takes responsibility for sound background knowledge about the industry and for the quality of this medium.
I wish her and the entire team lots of energy and success for the future in order to establish the still young information medium as a "must have" of every hotelier."
Carsten K. Rath, President & CEO Kameha Hotels and Resorts, Zug/Switzerland

Claudia Roth

"For many years, I`ve been following Maria Puetz-Willems` development and I find her initiative to change into the online media market a brave and highly interesting business decision. Today is Friday, "hospitality day"! Even as an industry insider, you hear about new things regularly. The articles are always well researched and supported by background information. hospitalityInside.com conveys strong opinions - though we don`t share this opinion all the time - and is always able to start new discussions or contribute some sound statements to existing ones."
Claudia Roth, Area Vice President Europe, Middle East, Africa, The Leading Hotels of the World, Frankfurt

Philippe Weyland

"Since the launch of hospitalityInside.com, I`ve been a loyal reader. You are selective about the newspapers you read and I can tell you today that you`ll never regret the time you spend on this website. I consider its content to be highly interesting, instructive and informative. It informs me quickly about recent developments and I always learn something new. The articles are concise and accessible from everywhere thanks to the magazine`s online appearance. My expectations are met."
Philippe Weyland, Managing Director, Motel One AG, Munich

Emanuel Berger

"Since I`ve been a subscriber of hospitalityInside.com, I`ve appreciated its comprehensive articles! The news is thoroughly researched and instructive! In addition, the volume of this platform as well as the frequency of its e-mails enables the mass of information to be absorbed in an efficient way. The content regularly comes with articles from highly esteemed colleagues and acquaintances from the industry, which makes the information contained particularly pleasant! In short: I don`t want to do without this valuable and up-to-the-minute information in future!"
Emanuel Berger, former Delegate of the Supervisory Board, Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa, Interlaken/Switzerland

Markus Beike

"hospitalityInside - a "must have" for everybody in contact with hotels. It is informative, accurate to a T and up-to-the-minute. An online magazine that distinguishes itself by its expert knowledge and being "inside" in an agreeable way. Its bilingualism is particularly outstanding, especially for an internationally active company such as Christie + Co."
Markus Beike, Managing Director, Christie & Co, Frankfurt

Oliver Bonke

"With the amount of industry publications and websites in the market these days, I enjoy hospitalityinside.com for its content. It is concise, relevant, up to date and easy to navigate to those areas that interest me. It feels like it is written by hospitality insiders for hospitality insiders. Keep it up!"
Oliver Bonke, Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Brussels/Belgium

Ola Ivarsson

"hospitalityInside.com is a quick and easy update on major changes in the hospitality industry. The electronic version is very convenient, as it can be read anywhere, even when you are on the run.."
Ola Ivarsson, Senior Vice President Operations Europe, Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts, Adliswil-Zurich/Switzerland

Markus Luthe

"My first mail on Friday morning normally comes from hospitalityInside.com and is always highly welcome: news from the industry and background information researched in a competent and careful way, presented in a critical and fair form."
Markus Luthe, Managing Director Hospitality, IHA Hotel Association of Germany, Berlin

Karin Leeb

"For me, hospitalityInside.com is an ideal completion of the Austrian industry media. It is a critical, short and to-the-point platform and brings me up to date in terms of the international hotel industry and leisure economy. For our resort hotel with a focus on well-being, the "Health & Wellness" column is of particular interest. The "hospitalityABC" is always worth reading, as special terms are summed up and well-explained."
Karin Leeb, Managing Director, Hotel Hochschober, Turracher Hoehe, Austria

Walter C. Neumann

"hospitalityInside.com has become a "must read" and a welcome item on my work agenda. As Managing Director of the Travel Charme hotel group, it is vital for me to have access to current and detailed industry information. Personal and technical changes are included as well as the latest trends in a neutral and apolitical way. A clearly structured and always accessible source of information, even from abroad!"
Walter C. Neumann, Managing Director, Travel Charme Hotels & Resorts, Berlin

Roeland Vos

"hospitalityInside.com is a great way to keep abreast of the information in our industry, they are always on the news with interesting story angles and commentaries. I have been one of the first subscribers of hospitalityInside.com, trusting the experience and professionalism of Maria and her team and now, after more than one year, I can say I was 100% right. Great product!"
Roeland Vos, President Europe, Middle East und Africa, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Brussels/Belgium

Dieter Müller

"Each Friday, I really enjoy the individual columns of hospitalityInside.com and I always get to know true news from the industry. A medium that manages to quickly inform the readers and an editorial team that provides good-quality research and comes with long years of experience inside the industry. Reliable, interesting and with a wide variety. For me: well-made industry information."
Dieter Mueller, Chairman of the Managing Board, Motel One AG, Munich

Markus Beugel

"There is hardly a segment of real estate development that has a more fast-moving market than the hospitality industry. Accordingly, reliable and immediate information about news and changes are of great importance. When it comes to hospitalityInside.com, I find what I need: an up-to-date market overview, news from and about the hotel groups, new players and brands on the German market and staff developments. Thank you very much, Mrs. Puetz-Willems, for supporting my work."
Markus Beugel, Managing Director, Frankonia Vermoegensverwaltungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Erlangen/Germany

Margit Hug

“hospitalityInside.com provides weekly news in well-researched and objective reports on the hotel industry. I look forward to read hospitalityInside.com news every Friday. Even when I`m not in the office, I read the articles from wherever I am. Maria Puetz-Willems and her team always manage to reveal important trends and offer real added value with comprehensive background information on current topics and exciting insider news.“
Margit Hug, Managing Director Central European Operations, Choice Hotels Franchise GmbH, Munich

Thomas Reisenzahn

"hospitalityInside.com is obligatory weekly reading, it combines specialist subjects with insider know-how and great depth of knowledge. The facts and trends reported by hospitalityInside.com make it essential for anybody taking decisions in the tourism industry. As a modern medium, hospitalityInside.com guarantees its international audience top current knowhow - a recipe for success that can be seen!"
Thomas Reisenzahn, General Secretary of the Austrian Hoteliers Association (ÖHV), Vienna

Georg Schlegel

"As champion of new media, I have long since been a fan of hospitalityInside.com. hospitalityInside.com is always "hot off the press" and available to me even when I`m away on business. I appreciate the depth of research as well as the critical and clear reporting standards. hospitalityInside.com provides a quick overview of all essential news. The bilingual nature of the magazine also allows information to be exchanged efficiently between non-German-speaking colleagues – and of course there`s the fresh, sometimes provocative style of Maria Puetz-Willems. Keep it up!"
Georg Schlegel, Senior Development Director EAME, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Brussels

Dr. Lothar Becker

"In the hotel industry in particular, there`s an oversupply of publications and sources of information. Only few of them make the `must have` category though.
hospitalityInside.com is indisputably a `must have` publication.
In particular, I appreciate the quality of research, the excellent knowledge of the industry, wide specialist knowledge and the topicality of contributions made by a selected and competent editorial team. But hand on heart:
With an Editor-in-Chief like Maria Puetz-Willems, I can`t imagine it any other way. And the industry certainly deserves such a medium."
Dr. Lothar Becker, Atrium Hotel, Mainz

Roland R. Zadra

"hospitalityInside.com is one of the few newsletters which I enjoy reading. The clear, concise and well-researched reports presented in the absence of annoying advertisements are always worth reading and are very often real news articles.
Maria Puetz-Willems and her team have found the perfect mix for an excellent overview of our industry and for the presentation of current themes. They are doing excellent work! Many thanks for that."
Roland R. Zadra, Board Chairman Romantik Hotels & Restaurants International, Zweibrücken

Ulrich Demetz

"We in South Tyrol form the link between north and south and for me it`s especially important to have my finger on the pulse of the trend and to understand where such movement is taking us. hospitalityInside.com provides valuable news from across the industry every week and has become a source of information which I would no longer like to be without. In particular, I appreciate that many subjects are tackled more extensively and that I am supplied with useful background knowledge. I would like to thank Maria Puetz-Willems and her committed team for the valuable service provided to us all and look forward to next Friday."
Ulrich Demetz, Hotel Asset Management & Coaching, jULIUS hospitality services, Brixen/South Tyrol