11
Jul

Townhouse Design Hotel Maastricht wins Dutch Hotel Award 2011

The Townhouse Hotel Maastricht wins the Dutch Hotel Award 2011! The hotel (part of the La Bergere Group) is just a little better as the fellow-finalists Postillion in Bunnik and Hotel Casa 400 in Amsterdam.

Jury President Bas Tolmeijer says: ‘all finalists are excellent candidates, we enjoyed the high level of competition. But there…

7
Feb

Pop-up ‘MedCottage’ enables senior care at home

As the massive baby-boomer generation enters its senior years, a strain on long-term care facilities seems virtually inevitable. Aiming to offer an alternative mode of senior care, Virginia-based N2Care has come up with the MedCottage, a pop-up, medically equipped suite that families can use on their property to care for seniors at home.

The…

4
Feb

Buh! Vending machines!

How to personalise a vending machine? It remains a struggle! On one hand it is the best 24-hours service you can supply, on the other hand it isn’t experienced as the most guest-friendly option. It’s time for something new!

Developed through a partnership between Kraft Foods and Intel, the meal planning kiosk taps a technology Intel…

6
Jan

One of the most ‘handy’ destination apps currently on the market!

This is what we spotted!

Numerous travel sites have graced our virtual pages in recent years, including several that allow users to create personalized itineraries. YourTour and Wanderfly are two such examples, but recently we came across another in mobile app form: Canadian mTrip.

With versions for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and…

20
Dec

Wubbo’s super bus

“Carefree and comfortable travel, customized according to your needs. You can get in the vehicle wherever and whenever you need. It will take you to your destination without any changeovers. During the journey, you can get on with your work, or sit back and enjoy the speed and the luxury. This service will be yours

16
Dec

BAM en TomorrowToday pakken gezamenlijk leegstand aan (press release)

Maastricht, 16 december  2010 – De toenemende leegstand in binnen-stedelijk gebied vraagt om creatieve oplossingen. Omgevingsbouwer TomorrowToday en BAM Utiliteitsbouw hebben de handen ineen geslagen om gezamenlijk op te treden bij de transformatie van leegstaande gebouwen tot leefomgevingen zoals hotels, starterwoningen en studenten huisvesting. De beide partijen tekenden recentelijk een samenwerkingsovereenkomst.

TomorrowToday en BAM  zijn…

16
Dec

Tros in Bedrijf

Tomorrow Today about Qbic on the Dutch radio!

Listen to: tros radio

14
Dec

Mini hotel rooms are extremely trendy

More and more hotels see mini hotel rooms as a USP. These hotels are called ‘pod hotels’. Qbic hotels is a pod hotel concept. The AD newspaper wrote an article about pod hotels which you can read here.

10
Dec

De Pers – 09 December 2010

It remains a topic in the Dutch newspapers, publication in De Pers on 09 December 2010.

29
Nov

Social media in practice

Hotel Townhouse in Maastricht uses social media in an easy and effective way. The first surpise was the free hotspot area. Hotels still see internet as a special thing but it is getting a commodity very fast. They scored the first 10 points easily. A flyer in the room informed me about the free cameras…