ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the development and analysis, which investigates using Germany as the model, whether the relevant factors of the hospitality industry are sufficient for assessing future investment and operator models. The investigation into developing a model based on a correlative analysis has emerged from observations of the growing professionalism within the hotel industry. The developed models are instruments that have been applied to the example of Germany as an analysis of the relationship of the indicators of the hotel market, hotel demand/performance, and economic development. The chapter presents a study, which is limited to an indicator analysis of the hotel market. It shows economic factors in relation to supply and demand. The relevant data for surveying the specific requirements of system operators and the investment costs. The chapter concludes that potential for more hotels in the polypolic hotel market is to be sought at locations where a stable economic development prevails and there is a low range of fluctuations.
