Golden Tulip Celebrates Hamburg Opening
MARCH 6, 2007. Over 300 business partners, hoteliers, investors and special guests joined the Golden Tulip's Executive Team to celebrate the opening of the Golden Tulip Hamburg Aviation, the first BRANCHE Restaurant, Bar & Lounge and the first Let's Meet Again in Germany.
The Official Opening reception took place on Thursday March 1st at the Golden Tulip Hamburg Aviation. With over 300 business partners, colleagues and special guests, Mr. Hans Kennedie, President & C.E.O. of Golden Tulip welcomed all the attendees and thanked all the business partners and staff involved in the hotel development.
Further speeches were delivered by: Mr. Bonz, Staatsrat for Economic Affairs of the City of Hamburg, Mr. Frank H. Albrecht, Chairman of Supervisory Board of AVW and Mr. Ulrich Krehan, Vice President Site Management Hamburg of Airbus Industries, all addressing the importance of the arrival of this hotel for the trade and business of Hamburg.
A symbolic key handover ceremony took place in which Mr. Albrecht handed over the keys of the hotel to Mr. Kees van Maaswaal, C.O.O. of Golden Tulip and Mr. Jan Patrick Kreuger, Hotel Manager of Golden Tulip Hamburg Aviation.
Through this celebration Golden Tulip celebrated the opening of three unique brands that together form the Golden Tulip Hotel formula.
Hans Kennedie, President & C.E.O. of Golden Tulip Hospitality, states: "it is with great excitement that we celebrated the official opening of this newly built hotel. Golden Tulip Hamburg Aviation is symbolic for our company, to launch and operate all new concepts we developed over the past 24 months. The hotel is equipped with 170 ultra-modern facilities, a state of the art conference centre, called: "Let's meet again" and a full BRANCHE Restaurant, Bar & Lounge."
Golden Tulip currently franchises and operates over 17 hotels with over 2000 rooms in Germany in prime locations among others Berlin, D"usseldorf, Munich and Hamburg.
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