Charlotte Horler, the 2016 Acorn Scholar, has been appointed front of house manager at the Red Carnation Hotel Collection’s Montague on the Gardens.
Autograph Collection, Marriott International's exclusive portfolio of one-of-a kind independent hotels, has welcomed a new boutique property to its collection. Hotel Xenia will be Autograph Collection's third hotel in London, joining St Ermin's and Threadneedles.
Locke, the new aparthotel brand from SACO The Serviced Apartment Company, has unveiled its leadership team for its first property - Leman Locke and the wider Locke operation – with the appointment of Commercial Manager, Samantha Sheridan. Over the last 15 years Samantha has gained extensive experience in opening hotels across the UK in the boutique and lifestyle sector and specifically for disruptive brands including Yotel and the The Laslett, and most recently with citizenM for over 5 years, leading on their introduction into the UK market.
Locke, the new aparthotel brand from SACO The Serviced Apartment Company, has unveiled its leadership team for its first property - Leman Locke and the wider Locke operation – with the appointment of General Manager, Ashley Ely and Commercial Manager, Samantha Sheridan.
InterContinental Hotels Group® (IHG), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jacque Riley, Brand Director, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Europe. The newly created role will report directly to Tom Rowntree – VP Brand Management, Luxury & Boutique Brands, Europe, and begin with immediate effect.
Hotel prices have fallen in major cities across the UK this month, according to the trivago Hotel Price Index (tHPI), recorded monthly by hotel search websitetrivago.co.uk. In comparison to July, London hotel prices have dropped by 16 per cent, from an average of £171 in July to an average of £143 during August. The only exception is Edinburgh, which hosted the International and Fringe festivals this month and subsequently saw a 35 per cent increase in hotel prices, from £150 per night in July to £202 in August.
The InterContinental London – The O2 hotel, owned and operated by the Arora Group, has enhanced its senior team with two newly created operational roles.
The InterContinental London – The O2 hotel, owned and operated by the Arora Group, has enhanced its senior team with two newly created operational roles.
The Zetter Group are very proud to announce that the group’s former Head Housekeeper, Angela Ellis, has been appointed as the new General Manager for The Zetter Hotel, London and The Zetter Townhouse, Clerkenwell. Although, she has a wealth of experience within the industry, this is Angela’s first General Manager position. Angela started her career in hospitality as a room attendant at Grosvenor House, in 1991.
On the first day of March in 2011, I received a phone call from a reporter from a local paper to let me know that the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in King's Cross was going to open its doors to the public soon and he asked me if I could write a feature on this iconic building for his newspaper. I was in Mumbai when I picked up the call, travelling in an auto-rickshaw outside the Victoria Terminus now known as CST - a building that bore an uncanny resemblance to the one housing the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel except that it was made of sandstone whereas the one in London was made of bricks. I'd like to have been back in London to tour the building that had intrigued me for years whenever I visited the British Library. I didn't know the reason for it being left empty. The clock tower of this Victorian Gothic building actually dwarfed that of the recently-built British Library.
STR's preliminary July 2016 data for London, England, indicates performance growth driven by rate. Based on daily data from July, London reported the following in year-over-year comparisons:
French hotelier Arnaud de Saint-Exupéry has been appointed general manager of the Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill and area vice president for Hyatt Hotels in the UK & Ireland, filling the vacancy left by Michael Gray following his retirement in March.
The Arora Group ("Arora" or the "Group") today announces the opening of the landmark residential "Arora Tower", on the Greenwich Peninsula, London which offers unique, direct access to the Group's luxury InterContinental London – The O2 hotel. Construction was completed on 26th July and the sales will complete over early August.
In assuming his new role as Vice President, Design & Engineering, Michael will report directly to Robert Shepherd, Chief Development Officer, Europe and sit on the Development, Design & Openings (DD&O) Leadership Team.
Karan will report to Stephen McCall, Chief Operating Officer, Europe, and become a member of the Operations Leadership Team. As Vice President of Design & Engineering Karan has successfully transformed the team into a professional consultancy, raising the bar on design execution, developing best-in-class design guidance, leading the design and deployment of the Holiday Inn® brand family transformation and building a talent pipeline across all team disciplines.
Dorsett Hospitality International is delighted to announce the development of its second hotel in London, Dorsett City, a 13 storey building formerly known as The Matrix, located next to Aldgate tube station and the 18th century St Botolph Church.
In collaboration with British Vogue and British GQ to create Room No.8, The Ritz-Carlton presented a multi-sensory performance-art experience created by some of the best names in visual effects, sound art and immersive theatre. The first of its kind, this event showcased The Ritz-Carlton to patrons in London, by taking them on a journey of discovery, and tapping into every one of their senses. In addition to delivering a theatrical physical presence for The Ritz-Carlton, the performance was filmed and photographed, with this content then providing the basis for the creative campaign, including advertisements and video content that ran on Vogue.com and GQ.co.uk.
The first head of innovation has been named by Tui UK & Ireland as the group looks to further digitise the business.
A U.K. multifamily office and two Middle Eastern partners submitted a $1.3 billion bid for London’s Grosvenor House hotel and majority stakes in New York’s Plaza and Dream Downtown hotels to majority owner Sahara India Pariwar, controlled by once-jailed Indian businessman Subrata Roy. The bidders “are committing our own capital resources to acquire all three” hotels, Jesdev Saggar, managing director of the U.K. multifamily office, 3 Associates Capital Management Ltd., wrote in an e-mail. “We now await the sellers’ acceptance of our bid.”
The Arora Group (“Arora” or the “Group”) is pleased to announce that it has been granted planning permission to develop a new hotel at London Heathrow. The new hotel is part of the ongoing strategy to focus on larger assets with high revenue potential; it has been granted planning permission to develop a new hotel at London Heathrow with direct access to the Queen’s Terminal, Terminal 2.