{"id":37937,"date":"2018-09-17T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxury-hotel-expert.com\/?p=37937"},"modified":"2025-03-24T21:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:57:34","slug":"digital-technology-oetker-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delporte-hospitality.com\/en\/digital-technology-oetker-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Technology in the Oetker Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I attended the 2017 edition of the ILTM Conference in Cannes. Over the course of the program, I sought out numerous hoteliers and hospitality experts to discover the latest emerging themes and challenges in the luxury hotel industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One theme that has fascinated me over the years is the subject of digital technology. It is a controversial term in the luxury hotel universe, which has traditionally centered around human touch and would thus ostensibly resist the digitalization of the unique service that defines luxury hospitality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the conference, I was eager to discover how different brands chose to approach the issue of digital technology. I was lucky to run into Frank Marrenbach, CEO of the Oetker Collection. He keyed me in on the latest digital technology strategies he envisioned in his hotels as well as new developments for the group abroad.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What is your vision of digital technology in terms of the guest experience?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have one big idea: that I can talk to every single client in the most individualized way. Let\u2019s say we have 100,000 guests; I\u2019d like to have 100,000 dialogues. That\u2019s utopia, I get it\u2014that you receive the message and it\u2019s really all about you, not about me, not about anyone else. I don\u2019t believe too much in digitalization once the guest is on premises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think there are good possibilities. Take Jumby Bay Island, where you have an app. The app tells you everything about the island. It\u2019s convenient, but I don\u2019t want the app to get in the way between us and the guests. I really think that in this case, the human touch is very important. Everything before is ultimately important. We are not good enough at reaching out to all of our audiences in the best possible way. We do email them, but let\u2019s face it, that approach is often a shortcoming. As a lifestyle company, we have to do this better. Luxury with a twinkle in the eye, luxury that is responsible\u2014that\u2019s really important, but we need to better understand when guests think about us. We need to get into their minds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have a lot to improve here. Digitalization is just a way of communicating. I want the human touch. Oetker Collection is a human-sized company, and we want to remain as such.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Do you have any developments in New York? What other developments would you like to see in the future?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some people may remember that we had a good possibility in New York. We signed it, the owner sold the whole building at 550 Madison, but the new owner wanted to keep the whole building as an office building. So we are back on the street looking for new possibilities. That\u2019s life. The Upper East Side is of course the location where we want to be. Surprise, surprise, we\u2018re not the only ones. We have to do a little bit of convincing. I think we\u2019ll be there. New York is important for us, as is Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Europe, we feel that Rome is an important location. So is Berlin, not just because we\u2019re a Germany company, but because we feel that Berlin is quite a cool city. In some years from now, the Far East is attractive, but we\u2019re simply too small at the moment to do it. We can\u2019t go to China if we have 10 hotels. We would fail if we tried at this moment. We need to be a little bit cautious. We\u2019re thinking of Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai, Melbourne\u2014the obvious ones. We are no smarter than other companies; we look around the world and see where people go, and where people go, we want to be there. Most of the time we can make a little difference. We have a little bit higher rates, but we cannot just create a destination where there is none.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Does the group have interest in seasonal hotels?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Are seasonal hotels interesting? Absolutely. If you see the smile on my face when I hand in the balance sheet, I can assure you there is not one single question whether this is a good thing to do. We\u2019ve always wanted to offer a winter resort for our guests so that they can stay with us when they want to go skiing. Beyond that, I guess 2\/3 of the team at L\u2019Apog\u00e9e Courchevel work in the summer at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc or Chateau Saint-Martin, which is ideal because we can employ them all year round. It\u2019s clearly beneficial in terms of cost management. Seasonal properties are great. Just don\u2019t keep seasonal properties open when there is no season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Are you seeking management contracts or ownership in your upcoming projects?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It depends because we can do both. Sometimes there are owners who don\u2019t want to share. Take the Lanesburg; we would have loved to buy part of the Lanesburg, but the owner said, \u2018No thank you. We want to own it outright.\u201d Take Eden Roc St. Barths: we co-own. Individuality also means every single time we look at what\u2019s good and what\u2019s possible. Generally speaking, we like to be involved on the equity side. That\u2019s a statement you would normally not hear from management company, but we create value on the equity side, too. Why not participate on the equity side if owners let us in terms of dividends? Sometimes owners want to sell in the later stages, so we would be ill-advised to ignore that and just say it\u2019s management only. Let\u2019s face it, you don\u2019t get into a yacht with a risk-free management contract. That\u2019s wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The good thing is that we have the means. The Oetker family just sold the shipping company for a substantial amount, so we have the liquidity, and they look at it in a multi-generational way. It\u2019s not like they look at it just for a decade and leave again. That helps us out for co-investing if needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">#ILTM #luxuryHotel #delportehospitality<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38085\" style=\"width: 818px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38085 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/delporte-hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oetker-Collection-Saint-Martin-Room.jpg\" alt=\"Ch\u00e2teau Saint-Martin &amp; Spa \" width=\"818\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delporte-hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oetker-Collection-Saint-Martin-Room.jpg 818w, https:\/\/delporte-hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oetker-Collection-Saint-Martin-Room-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oetker Collection &#8211; Saint-Martin &#8211; Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the 2017 edition of the ILTM Conference in Cannes. 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