Newsletter 06 Wednesday 17th of October will be the opening day of the 16th edition of Hostelco, the International Hotel, Restaurant and Community Equipment exhibition, which for the first time will be held at the Gran Via exhibition site of Fira de Barcelona, through to 21st of October. Innovation, externalization and networking are the three strategic areas in this edition of Hostelco, an indispensable biennial meeting for all those professionals who want to keep up-to-date about their industry with new products, new providers and a series of activities that will help them to position their business and make it profitable. In this last newsletter before Hostelco takes place, we interview the companies Araven and Areas, and we also feature an interesting article about the potential of China and Russia for the hotel industry. We hope to see you at Hostelco! 
 “Innovation must be saleable and respond to -or create- a market need”
Carlos Velázquez
Marketing Senior Managing Director of Roca Group The Roca Group is a world leader in design, production and commercialization of products for the bathroom space and it maintains, for many years, a close relationship with the Spanish and international hotel industry. The Group now operates, through its various brands, in over 135 countries and has its own 76 production sites in 18 countries, with a relevant presence in the main emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, China and India).
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 “Innovation is the essential point in our growth strategy”
Raúl Purroy
HoReCa Director, Araven
Araven is the leader in hotel and professional kitchen equipment, in particular in products which preserve and manipulate food. It also has a large range of products for the transportation and exhibition of food for catering services, events, etc.
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 “We choose the equipment that will help us in the sales process”
Xavier Torrents
Director of Hostelería Técnica R+D, Áreas
Áreas manages 1,267 restaurants, coffee shops, shops, hotels and petrol stations in Spain, Mexico, USA, Argentina, Morocco, Portugal, Chile, Dominican Republic and St. Martin.
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Hotel boom continues in China and Russia Christian Berke
International Sales & Marketing of Tophotelsprojects GmbH With 128 properties in the pipeline, Russia still provides potential for new hotels. China, also, is expecting to attain approximately 1,000 new top hotels in the coming years, including the largest Best Western hotel with 5,600 rooms being developed in Hainan.
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Hostelco 2012 initiatives Next edition of Hostelco will offer, as usual, a series of initiatives and side activities of great interest for visitors. Among them, some classics like the Baristas Championship, and other more innovative activities, like the meeting of LinkedIn professionals. Amongst the various unprecedented activities, the first training course stands out for panniers in the World. Panniers, the experts in bread, are becoming increasingly popular in the restaurant industry. Francesc Altarriba and Vic University are in charge of this course. Read + Networking, innovation and outside markets, in the centre of the next edition of Hostelco The next edition of Hostelco, the leader of the exhibition in Spain and second in Europe in its speciality, looks like one of the best options for exhibitors to make contacts and close deals thanks to the presence of more than 300 big buyers (50% of them, international) and more than 60,000 professional visitors expected. Read +
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 Export, the engine for the Spanish hotel equipment manufacturers
 The Spanish hotel equipment manufacturers exported, in 2011, 8.7% more than the previous year: sales abroad reached 601 million euros.
Read + 10th Horeca Congress of AECOC The 10th Horeca Congress of AECOC (business association that gathers close to 25,000 manufacturer and distribution companies) was held in Madrid on 26th and 27th of September under the slogan “This year, the hotel and restaurant industry”.
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Hainan set to rival Singapore, Malaysia and Italy by 2021
 The Chinese province of Hainan is on track to become one of the world’s leading tourist resort destinations by 2021.
Read + IHGs boutique hotel brand Hotel Indigo expands in Europe
 The roll out of InterContinental Hotel Group's (IHG) boutique brand Hotel Indigo is gathering pace in Europe, with the company announcing the signing of the first Hotel Indigo for Barcelona and the second in Birmingham, UK.
Read + Two hotels and 30 shops join forces to offer personal shoppers to their clients
Two luxury establishments in San Sebastián, Astoria 7 and Villa Soro hotel, have launched an initiative together with SShops Donostia in order to offer new services to their clients. Read + |
