Released on: November 13, 2007, 2:34 am

Press Release Author: Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns and Resorts

Industry: Real Estate

Press Release Summary: Golden Tulip is proud to announce its latest addition to its
Dutch hotel portfolio in Maastricht. The Tulip Inn Maastricht Aachen Airport
previously operated by Accor, switched franchisors on November 1st and continues to
be managed by Hendrik Jaakke.


Press Release Body: Amersfoort (NL)/Lausanne (CH), 12 November 2007 -Golden Tulip is
proud to announce its latest addition to its Dutch hotel portfolio in Maastricht.
The Tulip Inn Maastricht Aachen Airport previously operated by Accor, switched
franchisors on November 1st and continues to be managed by Hendrik Jaakke.

Tulip Inn Maastricht Aachen Airport is ideally located next to the airport and with
easy access to all motorways. All 62 rooms are comfortably and tastefully furnished
and the hotel offers ample free parking. The city centre, Central Station and the
MECC Congress and Exhibition Centre are all just a 10 minute drive away.

Hans Kennedie, President & CEO of Golden Tulip Hospitality comments: "we are
delighted with the new addition to our chain and even more with the strengthing of
our business relations with the Westerhout Hospitality Group. This addition brings
our hotel portfolio to up to 82 hotels in the Netherlands."

Rob Smit, managing director of the Westerhout Group adds: "We are very glad to open
our 4th hotel, Tulip Inn Maastricht Aachen Airport, in the south of the Netherlands.
By this hotel we get a stronger position in the area of Maastricht. I am convinced
that our new property, under the flag of Golden Tulip, will be a big success for the
development of Westerhout Hospitality, the largest hotel and restaurant chain in
Brabant and Limburg."

Golden Tulip's current hotel portfolio in the Netherlands consists of 82 hotels in
the Netherlands with over 7500 rooms in 58 cities.

About Tulip Inn Maastricht-Aachen Airport
The 3-star hotel Tulip Inn Maastricht-Aachen Airport is located next to the airport
of Maastricht, Aachen Airport and on the highway E25/A2. As so, the hotel is easy to
reach by car and offers comfortable rooms, which makes this hotel a perfect starting
point for a visit to Maastricht.
The 62 rooms in the hotel offer all the modern facilities one may expect of a 3-star
hotel. All rooms are fitted with a bathroom with bath or shower and toilet. There
are special smokers and non-smokers rooms and rooms with airconditioning as well.

Business meetings can also be held in the hotel. The hotel can offer you different
meeting rooms among which a multifunctional suite decorated in airspace style. From
this suite, you have a magnificent view of the runways of the airport. This suite is
suitable for meetings and seminars but can be used for parties as well.

About Westerhout Group
Westerhout Group (www.westerhouthospitality.nl), with its head office in Weert, has
two divisions; Westerhout Services for advice and facility management and Westerhout
Hospitality, a full service hospitality organization with 12 properties in the South
East of Brabant and Limburg. Among them are the Congress and Party center De Grote
Hegge in Thorn, the Congress center Fortunato in Sittard, the two hotels the Golden
Tulip Weert and the Tulip Inn Heerlen, and the Clubmet restaurants in Veldhoven,
Leende, Weert, Sittard and Heerlen. Furthermore services include the F&B operation
of the lobbies of the theatre De Schalm in Veldhoven and the Munttheater in Weert as
well as the Bar Bistro Tropical at the public bath De IJzeren Man in Weert. For 2007
Westerhout Hospitality has developed an investment plan of 16 million euros for
extending the organization with new hotels and restaurants.

About Golden Tulip Hospitality Group
Golden Tulip Hospitality Group (www.goldentuliptop.com), with its head offices in
Amersfoort, The Netherlands and Lausanne, Switzerland, is a worldwide hospitality
company with more than 910 hotels in more than 50 countries. Golden Tulip
Hospitality Group franchises and manages hotels in Europe, the Middle East & Africa,
the Asian Pacific Region and the Americas. In 2006, Hotels Magazine has ranked this
company the 18th largest hotel chain.

As a multi-brand hospitality firm, Golden Tulip Hospitality Group offers services in
the two, three, four and five star categories. On the two-star side Golden Tulip has
an alliance with the French B&B hotel chain. The three-star concept is the Tulip Inn
for the limited-service first-class category, the four-star category falls under the
Golden Tulip brand for the Superior First-Class business and Resort hotels and the
recently introduced five-star concept Royal Tulip. In addition Golden Tulip offers
its services through its commercial alliance with TOP International, a German based
hotel consortium.





Web Site: http://www.goldentulip.com

Contact Details: Golden Tulip Hospitality Group
Ms. Rocio Manzanares -
Corporate Communication Manager
Stationsplein 26
3818 LE Amersfoort
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 33 2544 828
Fax: +31 33 2544 816
E-Mail: rocio.manzanares@goldentuliptop.com
Web: www.goldentulip.com