Hotel giant enters Polish market

Wyndham Hotel Group, the biggest hotel chain  in the world and the owner of as many as 7,100 hotels (592,000 rooms), is poised to enter the Polish market, starting with the launch of an economy chain under the group's  Super 8 brand. A minimum of ten motels under the brand are to open over the next five years, alongside Shell petrol stations, among other locations.The hotel giant is being brought to Poland by Alex Kloszewski, partner and head of the hotel investment department of Colliers International, who knows the group very well having previously worked for it for ten years. This landmark development agreement for the Polish hotel market was signed by Mr Kloszewski and Erick Danziger, president of Wyndham Hotel Group, during the 2011 International Hotel Investment Forum conference, which took place in Berlin on March  7th-9th. Colliers entered into talks a year ago with the group, which provides the franchise rights to such well-known brands as Ramada, economy hotels Days Inn, M