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| The HospitalityInside team 2015: (from left)Anne Greisel (Administration, Fairs & Events), Managing Director Michael Willems, Anne-Laure Duval (Sales & Marketing), Editor-in-Chief Maria Puetz-Willems, Christine Tassinger (Editorial office, conferences). |
Dear hospitalityInsiders,
When we announced the start of hospitalityInside.com in the middle of February 2005, only very few believed in the success of a solely editorial online medium without any advertisements. At ITB 2015, our hotel trade magazine has celebrated its 10th anniversary and nobody has copied our model so far... In Berlin, we were very lucky clinking our glasses with many subscribers and companions in celebration of our first decade – thank you very much for your visit and great appreciation! We have arranged a photo gallery with images of numerous well-wishers. Please find the link at the bottom.
hospitalityInside.com is – just as conceived from the beginning – "online only", published in two languages (German/English) and it refrains from advertisements. Top managers, who are frequent travellers, read our magazine any time at any place, we have readers in more than 20 countries and are able to criticise – objectively and constructively – as we are not controlled by advertising budgets. The readers pay for this sophisticated editorial online information service with their subscriptions.
Managing directors and board members, general managers of hotels, heads of staff departments, owners, investors and financiers appreciate the up-to-date variety and editing of topics and news. Even critical words rarely lead to disagreements as we have proved often enough in the meantime that we do not want to harm but convey an objective and constructive picture of the market, its participants and their opinions.
Freedom of expression, independence of the press, and the responsibility of all for the community has been the basis for living and the economic activities in our society up to the present day.
We are happy to see that a "community" has formed around hospitalityInside in the past 10 years. It accompanies and inspires us. With our magazine, the events and our activities, we would like to bring this network closer together, online as well as offline, provide a platform for good ideas, and enable new cooperations and partnerships in future.
We provide transparency. On that account, we will continue each week to reduce the flood of information radically to the essential and broach subjects again as soon as there is a space. We are able to accomplish this with a set of clear rules for professional journalists, who take their readers seriously, listen to them and pick up on their issues. In future, we also wish to think value-oriented and act fairly towards our partners. We are all convinced in the team: it pays off to remain true to these principles.
We would like to thank all those sincerely, who have accompanied us in numerous ways! Thank you for 10 years of HospitalityInside!
Publishing & Editorial, Michael Willems & Maria Puetz-Willems
Click "TheHospitalityTV" on YouTube to enjoy our birthday pictures from ITB 2015!
Photo impressions of 10 years of HospitalityInside.
The HospitalityInside timeline 2005-2015 - in the new ITB SPECIAL, pages 6+7. Click.
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