Hotel Technology Next Generation

"Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts is not planning to change its relationship at all," said Richard Oehler, SVP Operational Standards & Systems. "We remain sold on the capabilities of our protel solutions, and can heartily recommend them to others. We view PMS as an essential part of our successful business strategy – in Europe and beyond. Over the years, we have learned to appreciate protel as an innovative partner who could satisfy our requests quickly and flexibly."

protel and Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts have been partners since 2002. All told, protel solutions have been successfully rolled out to 40 Mövenpick hotels in Europe and the Middle East. The Middle East installations were managed by protel's Dubai office. MPE – protel's multi-property solution – is in use throughout Germany and the Netherlands. Protel MPE provides all the hotels with real-time access to all program features and data based on a single, central database environment – avoiding the traditional Achilles' heel of data synchronization systems.

Oliver Bernet, CIO – SVP Information Technology at Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, noted, "We've chosen protel solutions because of their powerful functionality, reliable technology and ability to accommodate Mövenpick's specific needs. We are holding fast to this proven strategy and are extremely pleased with excellent outcome of our cooperation with protel over the years."

Manfred Osthues, Managing Director of protel hotelsoftware GmbH, is looking forward to future Mövenpick projects. "Our relationship with Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts is a partnership characterized by joint successes in major international projects. We naturally look forward to expanding this long-standing partnership, and to continuing to show what our products and services are capable of."

About Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts (MH&R), a premium hotel management company with over 12,000 employees, is represented in 25 countries with over 80 hotels existing or under construction and focuses on its core markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The international hotel group with Swiss roots is forging ahead with its expansion and aims to extend its portfolio to include 100 hotels by 2010. MH&R has an established presence in the 4 and 5-star segment with two types of accommodation: business and conference hotels and holiday resorts. In keeping with its slogan "True Excellence in Swiss Hospitality", the hotel chain is a byword for the uncompromising quality of its products and services. The hotel group is owned by the Mövenpick Holding (66.7 %) as well as the Kingdom Group (33.3 %).

About protel:
Started in 1994, today protel proudly counts over 3,800 hotels, resorts, hotel chains, hotel training centres and universities amongst its customers. Ranging from hotels with only 30 rooms, but with a high level of personalised guest services, to large 2200 room accommodation facilities, it offers a great range of hospitality software.

Satisfied customers include Movenpick Hotels & Resorts, The Rocco Forte Collection, Paramount Group of Hotels, Greece’s largest hotel chain Grecotel, Norways´s largest hotel chain Rica Hotels AS, Austria´s largest hotel chain Austria Trend Hotels, Toga Hospitality Group (AUS), ROBINSON Clubs (GER), Leading Hotels of the World such as The Ritz Hotel Paris, Baur Au Lac Zurich, Badrutt`s Palace Hotel St. Moritz (CH), as well as non hospitality companies such as Deutsche Bahn AG, Deutsche Post Worldnet AG, Bayer AG, Deutsche Bank AG.

Organization
protel hotelsoftware GmbH
www.protel.net/
Europaplatz 8
Dortmund, 44269
Germany
Phone: 49 (231) 915 93 0
Email: press@protel.net