By Liz Craig
When hoteliers and internet marketing folks start to discuss the value of a hotel blog, you hear lots of tech talk about visibility in search engines, the importance of social networks and so on.
All of which is true. But it misses the point which is at the heart of hospitality.
Blogs are an opportunity to have a conversation with a customer, to express the property’s personality and convey a passion for interests associated with the hotel’s locale.
In short,

Wonderful news to share! Our restaurant At Eight at The Ring, Vienna’s Casual Luxury Hotel, has been rewarded with its second toque by the most important and influential Austrian gourmet guide, Gault Millau. With this award, the restaurant and Chef Thomas Seifried have earned themselves the second toque in the second year of operation, which one may definitely call a unique and sensational achievement!
“A young and extremely professional service crew, a performance of international par-excellence, a perfect location and an

Several terms for intimate, unusual luxurious hotel environments where guests experience a more personal ‘looking-after’ feeling and a more private and dedicated level of service. Boutique hotels are unique properties that are mostly operated by individuals or companies that operate a small hotel collection.
A few examples: Stein Group, Geisel Privathotels in Germany, Schössle Hotel Group and Bulgari Collection. Mostly all boutique hotels are furnished in a themed, aspirational or stylish way, boost between 30 and 80 guest rooms and suites

1. Who are you?
Hotelmanager of the Hotel FOX
2. What do you like about what you do?
I am my own Master and the man in the house
3. What don’t you like about what you do?
Getting sick.
4. Please tell us about your hotel and your aims with it?
To smash people’s daily routine and give them an experience they never had before.
61 rooms, 21 artist, 1,000 ideas
Each room is an individual piece of art. From wacky comical styles to strict graphic

A Finnish Hospitality Management graduate group from Turku University of Applied Sciences got a once in a lifetime experience to enjoy casual luxury in The Ring Hotel in March 15th as a part of our strategic management studies. The study trip included visiting exciting hotels and meeting interesting tourism persons, including Assistant General Manager of The Ring and Grand Hotel Wien, Mr. Carl-Peter Echtermeijer.
He kindly welcomed us for a tour in Grand Hotel Wien to show some of the everyday

1. Who are you?
Ilonka B. Molijn–van Ginkel, business owner of BabyMoon luxury pre-birth getaways and responsible for Sales & Marketing in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
2. What do you like about what you do?
Interacting with clients from different parts of the world. Each with its own creative ideas and knowledge about its hotel and destination. New targeting challenges when a new Babymoon Package and destination is introduced.
3. What don’t you like about what you do?
There is no single thing

The Harpers´s Bazaar Travel Guide 2009 features the world´s most glamorous hotels, hideaways, villas and lodges. The Ring Hotel was featured as the new face of Vienna.

The German label “bellybutton”, with its headoffice in Hamburg, and “The Ring” hotel, Vienna´s Casual Luxury hotel, like to bring the trend of the so-called “babymoon” holiday, originating for the USA, to Vienna. Owner and founder of belly button, Dana Schweiger, and bellybutton fan Arabella Kiesbauer presented the new highlight at the Ring: the babymoon package.
“The Ring” presents the “Luxury before Birth“ package with very special treatments, especially designed for the needs of the parents-to-be, who should feel very comfortable during their stay