HotelBrain Starts Strong in 2017, Awards Partners for Hospitality Excellence

The HotelBrain team.

HotelBrain’s owner and founder, Panos Palaiologos.

Following its impressive performance over the past years, Greek hotel management company HotelBrain has made a strong start in 2017.

Speaking during the HotelBrain 1st Sym.posh!um event, held recently at the Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens, owner and founder Panos Palaiologos informed some 400 Greek tourism professionals, representatives and journalists on the company’s expansion of activities in Morocco and new partnership with the upscale Nikki Beach Resort and Spa Porto Heli. He also gave details regarding the launch of a new management department for Large-scale Properties within HotelBrain.

HotelBrain 1st Sym.posh!um event.

HotelBrain’s CEO Konstantinos Zikos.

Last year HotelBrain saw the gross operating profit of all hotels under its management reach some 101 million euros, up from 72 million in 2015.

While presenting HotelBrain’s’s 2016 results, the company’s CEO Konstantinos Zikos informed that the average daily rates (ADR) of the properties in the company’s portfolio reached 193 euros while the average occupancy of the hotels reached 70,6 percent.

HotelBrain lauds excellence

Always applauding excellence in hospitality, during the event HotelBrain honored its partners that stood out in 2016 due to their actions and initiatives, which helped improve the experience of visitors in Greece.

Awards were given to Nikos Pagonis of Katikies Luxury Boutique Resorts for Excellence in Performance, Theothoros Kakoutis of Bill & Coo Hotel for Excellence in Performance, Vagelis Adamantidis of Boheme Hotel for Excellence in Evolution (Recontructing – Rebranding – Design), Petridi Vaso of Agalia Luxury Suites for Excellence in Destination Repositioning & Rebranding of a whole island, Konstantinos Vythoulkas of Lesante Blu Exclusive Beach Resort for Top Aspiring New Opening and Othonas Mourkakos for Top Pioneering New Development regarding a new hotel development on Mykonos.

Founded in 2000, HotelBrain consists the biggest hotel management and consulting company in Greece with 189 hotels in Greece under its management. The company also runs hotels in eight destinations abroad (Turkey, Lebanon, Cyprus, Serbia, Austria, Italy, Morocco and Montenegro).

Over the last two years, HotelBrain has been honored with two European titles of “Europe’s Leading Hotel Management Company” at the World Travel Awards. Due to its innovative business model, the company is also part of the global network of Endeavor, a non-profit organization, which selects and supports the most promising companies around the world.