What makes us come back to the places as guests, visitors, or fans?

It was, I think 2013 or 2014 I have found myself in Twente, east of The Netherlands, endless green fields, horses, cows, sheep, chickens everywhere, natural wonder.  I ended up here thanks to our manager Yves Dekeyser from Accor and special thanks to Maartje Van Vliet who has found our place to stay in Twente, Erfgoed Bossem for a General Managers […]

TURKIYE – BODRUM – WHAT A HEAVEN! MUST VISIT!

As an advanced traveler and an experienced hospitality professional, I came and come across many places on this wonderful planet. Lucky me!  And although I live in the Netherlands and I was born in Germany, now living almost 20 years abroad, I love to go back to my beautiful family, I visit my darling sister […]

2023

I am going into 2023 not strong but soft, and I am not powerful but thankful for what I have been accomplished and didn’t, at the end of the day, it is what we have learned and applied to our day to day life and not how we survive everything, I believe strongly ( that is the irony […]

The company culture…

Company culture,  In my opinion is the most important part of the business, if the culture has been set correctly, so the beliefs of the people, philosophy of the founders, character of the industry, structure of the industry, activities of the business are melted in the way of thinking of the most important asset of […]

Share when you can…

Charlie Chaplin said below words at 1940, from ” The Great Dictator” and I use just a little part of the whole speech from his role. And now 82 years later, we cannot be more agreed with him. “Our knowledge has made us cynincal Our cleverness, hard and unkind We think too much, and feel […]

BE KIND! BUT FIRST TO YOURSELF…

Last week today, we were at the Copthorne Tara Hotel London Kensington,  starting the day with one of the keynote speakers Paul McKenna’s words, I don’t remember exactly how he said it, but he said something like “ Most of the people wake up every morning, get up, get ready to go work or elsewhere, once they […]

London baby…

Fans of the TV show Friends will remember the scene and the joy of Joey immediately after they hear those two words. Our journey started in Novotel London Canary Wharf we are welcomed like movie stars by Jacqui McMillan and her fantastic team in the morning of Friday, when we had the pleasure to see and meet each other […]

Welcome to My added Value page, 

I am Özgür Eylen , who owns this small company.  After almost 25 years in International Hospitality Management business, having set ( proudly ) amazing places together, made pre-openings, openings, Start-ups, achieved some remarkable results with my team mates, I have recognized last 10 years of my carrier, that there is more for me to be able […]

A top-3 tips in getting great results by engaging your team

Previously, I made my opinion regarding teams very clear. Your staff will have the answer to any problem that occurs in your daily routine. They will also be able to see not only the problem, but tackle it too. Most of all, they will be able to look for the opportunity coming from that problem! […]

No masks apply…

To be successful in any service based industry, I believe the most important element to keep on mind is, the Transformation! Not that I am entitled to be a “transformer” but because that’s the only way to be able to move on. In service industry there is a segment of people who are deciding neither […]