Premier Inn To Double Presence In Oxford This Year
Whitbread, the owner of the Premier Inn and hub by Premier Inn hotel brands, is set to double its presence in Oxford this calendar year as the business continues its strategic expansion in the city.
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Premier Inn Gets Set For Summer With 545 New Seaside Rooms Set To Open This Spring / Summer
Premier Inn, the UK's largest hotel business, is readying itself for summer with five new seaside locations set to open this spring / summer. Together the hotels add 545 bedrooms to Premier Inn's expanding network in popular coastal and leisure locations across the UK.
Triton Secures Further Premier Inn Contract To Build 80 Bed Hotel In Porthmadog
Triton Construction has secured a contract to deliver a new 80-bed Premier Inn hotel in Porthmadog, North Wales. The £5.4 million instruction through Liberty Properties includes the design and build of the hotel on the former site of Ty Moelwyn Tax Office, as well as external services, roads, yards and car parking.
The five keys to successfully negotiating an off-plan hotel lease, for hotel owners
More than ever, off-plan hotel leases[1] are making headlines in the leisure real estate industry. Stemming from real estate law professional practices, off-plan hotel leases reconcile the legal and financial interests of three distinct actors: the developer (seller), the investor (owner) and the operator (tenant).
Whitbread Set to Open Four More Premier Inn Hotels in Scotland
Whitbread, the owner of the Premier Inn and hub by Premier Inn hotel brands, is gearing itself up for a successful summer of staycations in Scotland with four new hotels due to open in the coming months.
Hilton and Signo Hospitality to Develop 10 New Hotels in Germany
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) today announced an agreement with Signo Hospitality (Signo) to develop 10 new hotels in Germany over the next five years. The first two properties to open under the agreement will be Hilton Garden Inn Herne and Hampton by Hilton Bottrop. Both hotels will be the first from Hilton in their respective cities, which sit in Germany's industrial centre in the Ruhr valley.
Aberdeen Standard Investments in landmark acquisition of world’s first hometel, room2 Southampton
room2, the world's first hometel brand, has completed the sale and leaseback of its flagship offering, room2 Southampton, to a fund managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments ("ASI"), the UK's largest active asset manager. The disposal price of c. £10 million reflects a prime net initial yield of 4.98% with a 30 year indexed linked lease in place. The hometel concept, a sub sector of the extended stay space, is the brainchild of brothers Robert and Stuart Godwin, former members of the British Olympic Development Sailing Team. room2 was advised by Savills and ASI was advised by Knight Frank.
London Will See A Bumper Crop Of New Luxury Hotels In 2021
"London opens to you like a novel itself… It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, doors and passages. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand," writes Anna Quindlen in Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
Horwath HTL Market Report: Portugal Future Outlook & Pipeline
Portugal's hotel, tourism and leisure sectors have been evolving favourably in the recent years with travel & tourism accounting for 16.5% of Portuguese GDP in 2019. The strength of the market, fostered by government policy, boosted investments in the country's tourism and hospitality assets, as evidenced by an increased number of transactions and new hotel developments.
Lawyers involved in M&A transactions – Never buy a hotel in France without a good representations and warranties agreement
With an asset and liability guarantee agreement (Garantie d'actif et de passif, or GAP, under French law), the buyer obtains a contractual warranty for ensuring that the price it is paying matches the value of the company being sold. A post-sale tax adjustment or industrial tribunal proceedings in favour of an employee? A GAP agreement covers disputes prior to the sale, if these disputes were undeclared or if insufficient provisions were made for them.
The Kyriad Direct Brand Is Pursuing Its Development In France And Plans To Offer Clients 100 Hotels By Yearend 2021
Louvre Hotels Group, subsidiary of the world's second largest hotel group, continues to expand its Kyriad Direct brand, growing from 60 hotels open in 2020 to 100 hotels in 2021. Launched in April 2018, the Kyriad Direct brand is being developed on the 2-star segment to meet the needs of travellers looking for a quality hotel experience at an affordable price.
Kempinski Palace Engelberg: First Engelberg 5-star Luxury Hotel to Be Managed by Kempinski Hotels – Opening Spring 2021
Two extraordinary Swiss hotels are now adding to the portfolio of the luxury hotel group Kempinski Hotels: the first five-star luxury hotel in Engelberg, Kempinski Palace Engelberg - Titlis Swiss Alps, which is nearing completion and will welcome discerning guests from all over the world in the heart of Engelberg from spring 2021; and the two hotels on Frutt in Melchsee-Frutt, which will benefit from the international management know-how and worldwide distribution network of Kempinski Hotels and be managed from the coming winter season by Kempinski.
Queensgate Investments and Rockwell secure planning permission for £1bn landmark London hotel
Queensgate Investments and Rockwell has now been given the green light by the Greater London Authority (GLA) for the redevelopment of the Kensington Forum, to provide a world-class hotel and serviced apartment scheme alongside 62 genuinely affordable homes and substantial public realm improvements.
Värde Partners completes sale of luxury hotel group The Dedica Anthology
Värde Partners, a leading global alternative investment firm, today announced the successful completion of its previously announced sale of a portfolio of eight luxury hotels operating under The Dedica Anthology brand ("Dedica") to Covivio, a European real estate operator, through its subsidiary Covivio Hotels.
Market entry of citizenM Hotels in Germany's top cities in cooperation with project developer GBI
The award-winning Dutch hotel and lifestyle brand citizenM has entered into an exciting collaboration with German project developer GBI. citizenM is looking for prime locations for their entry into the German hotel market. True to its philosophy 'affordable luxury for the people', citizenM is offering guests all the luxuries they would expect from a high-end hotel in a prime location, yet without sky-high prices. Since June, citizenM is also offering contactless stays powered by its new app.
No breakfast buffet and sanitising fog machines: a night in a post-lockdown London hotel
I'm afraid I can't take your bags," says the manager of The Dixon, a boutique hotel just south of Tower Bridge. He greets me in the lobby on reopening day (Saturday 4 July) after the pandemic forced the hotel to close for four months. A smile beams from behind the clear plastic visor that covers his face. "We have a new procedure, you see."
Hospitality Brand onefinestay Grows Its Villa Collection With The Launch Of 40 Premium Villas In Saint-Tropez
Paris - onefinestay , the leading hospitality brand offering the world's finest homes and service, announces the addition of Saint-Tropez to its growing Villa Collection. From super-slick hideaways to classically French retreats, onefinestay has curated 40 exceptional villas in the sunkissed region, all of them personally vetted for their quality, location, elegance and comfort.
Deutsche Hospitality to reopen hotels in Austria from 29 May 2020
Yes, we are open. As travel restrictions begin to ease and many countries gear up to celebrate the Whitsun holiday, the Steigenberger Hotel Herrenhof in Vienna and the Steigenberger Hotel & Spa Krems will both be reopening for leisure travelers on 29 May. They will be followed by the IntercityHotel Vienna and the MAXX by Steigenberger Vienna, which will start receiving guests again on 2 June and 1 July respectively. Some of Deutsche Hospitality's Austrian hotels have been using the break caused by the corona crisis to carry out renovations in their guest rooms and public areas.
Will UK hotel investment see a post-Brexit bounce?
Investor confidence in the UK's hotel sector is set to return this year as Brexit uncertainty settles, providing opportunities for both buyers and sellers alike.
Scandic launches new hotel brand
Today, Scandic is launching Scandic GO, a new hotel brand that offers a playful, slimmer concept within the growing economy hotel segment. With Scandic GO, the company aims to establish a strong presence in city locations in all of the Nordic markets. Scandic will initially launch five hotels under the new Scandic GO brand - four in Stockholm and Oslo during the fourth quarter 2020 and one in Copenhagen during the second quarter 2021.