Stockholm based MiWell Nordic recommends eRevMax for hotel online distribution and channel management. Ten hotel clients of the management consultancy firm, using RateTiger Suite and LIVE OS solutions, have improved their online revenues significantly in the last one year.
STR's preliminary May 2016 data for London, England, indicates negative occupancy performance.Based on daily data from May, London reported the following in year-over-year comparisons:
The TOPHOTELPROJECTS welcomes TeleAdapt as the official Headline Sponsor for the TOPHOTELPROJECTS World Tour 2016. TeleAdapt is the only business solely dedicated to keeping the hotel guest connected while travelling for business or pleasure.
Hotel Café Royal has promoted François-Xavier Schoeffer to hotel manager and taken on Benjamin Hofer as F&B director and Hendrik Hübner as front of house manager.
The hotel industry in London, England, is projected to experience continued performance declines through 2016, but positive results in 2017, according to a quarterly forecast report from STR and Tourism Economics.London has posted year-over-year growth in revenue per available room (RevPAR) for six consecutive years beginning with 2010. Through April 2016, London's RevPAR dropped 3.2% to GBP95.60. Although average daily rate declined moderately (-0.5% to GBP128.34) during that period, occupancy dropped 2.7% to 74.5%. Overall, London has reported year- over-year occupancy declines for each month since November 2015.STR and Tourism Economics' market forecast reports, which are updated quarterly for more than 60 markets worldwide, are based on historic hotel data records as well as several economic factors.Looking at the remaining months of 2016, several factors will likely have a negative impact on hotel performance in London:
TOPHOTELPROJECTS has made significant changes in the TOPHOTELPROJECTS World Tour planning. In just one week they have 2 sponsors confirmed for 5 worldwide events and as for the London event we can announce yet another speaker, the venue is confirmed and the delegate passes for hotel suppliers are sold out.
Nadler Hotels is hoping to open its fourth London hotel following the freehold acquisition of a Covent Garden property from Legal & General Property, on behalf of its UK Property Fund. Walter House, located on the eastern corner of Strand and Bedford Street, currently comprises of 20,000 sq ft of vacant office space over five upper floors. Nadler Hotels is seeking planning permission to convert this into a new 56 bedroom boutique hotel under The Nadler brand.
eRevMax, the leading hotel technology provider, has released an infographic showcasing online travel trends in the United Kingdom. The infographic has projected a positive outlook for UK hoteliers, who can expect to see a lot of bookings coming their way not only from international travelers but from Britons too, as a good 64% of them will take at least one domestic holiday.
Marriott's CANVAS project, a food and beverage talent incubator designed to unlock the potential of unused spaces in European Marriott hotels, returns for a second year with the launch of Notch on the rooftop of London's Marriott Park Lane hotel.Formerly known as Roofnic, Notch is a new concept developed by Ashley Dawes who conceived the original project in 2015 and secured investment from Marriott in his idea, whilst still an employee of London Marriott Park Lane. The new popup rooftop bar revolves around Japanese street food, pop cans of homemade cocktails and takes inspiration from the Millennial hotspots of Williamsberg and Berlin. Accessed via a separate entrance off Oxford Street and designed as a sky-high industrial playground, Notch features an eclectic mix of reclaimed school tables, scaffolding and swings alongside a vibrant bar and open kitchen named Fudo Shack.Following the great success of Roofnic in 2015, which turned over £500,000 revenue in just three months, Ashley set up DenLDN, a bar and restaurant consultancy, using the experience gained from taking part in the project as a springboard to launch his own business.Conceived to transform and monetise unused spaces within hotels, CANVAS challenges Marriott employees and local entrepreneurs to create distinctive and engaging restaurant and bar experiences with the support of experienced operational teams at Marriott. The creator of each winning concept is offered a minimal budget – typically just £35,000 per project – to build and develop the restaurant or bar at chosen hotel locations.Positioned as incubator labs, these restaurants sit outside Marriott's standard restaurant protocols in order to fully experiment with the design. Each project is adapted and evolves depending on feedback and results, resulting in dining experiences that transform perceptions of hotel restaurants and resonate with the much sought after Millennial consumer.Since its launch in 2015, CANVAS has completed four successful projects, three with Marriott associates and one, in Hungary, with a local entrepreneur. These four imaginative bars and restaurants have proved to be a runaway success, providing exceptional drinking and dining experiences and also a valuable understanding of consumer demand. There are already plans to expand CANVAS to more sites across Europe this year and each live project brings a wealth of learnings, innovation and inspiration to Marriott, which will help plan future F&B offerings within the company's hotel network.Jeremy Dodson, Vice President, Food and Beverage, Marriott International Europe, comments: "Innovation is high on the agenda for Marriott as we strive to connect with new audiences. We have already learnt so much from these initial pilots and I am so proud that Ashley has returned to Marriott to bring his Notch concept to life.""By combining the creativity and passion of entrepreneurs with the scope and resources available in our hotels, we can create some truly extraordinary restaurant and bar experiences. Our goal is to empower fresh-thinking, passionate F&B professionals to test out their ideas using dead space within our hotel, inspiring those who visit our hotels but also challenging us to constantly re-think and innovate our F&B offering." The pilot schemes:Roofnic in London was the first CANVAS project to launch and was the great success story of the programme. It was a summer bar that drew inspiration from the playful vibe of British summer music festivals such as Latitude and Bestival. Located at the London Marriott Hotel Park Lane, and accessed via a separate, secret entrance, the team, led by Ashley Dawes, former Restaurant & Bar Manager, took an unused roof terrace and transformed it into a rustic summer garden, with simple wooden benches, folding garden furniture and – most importantly – affordable prices. The bar often had queues down the streets and was selling 1000 cocktails a day, turning over more than £500,000 in revenue over the Summer. Hot on the heels of Roofnic was St Pancras MI+ME, an urban cheese and charcuterie bar at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, London – right by the entrance to St Pancras International Station and ideally located for travellers seeking creative and tasty food. Andrew Nadin, Food and Beverage Director at Renaissance St Pancras, was inspired by the booming micro-brewery scene, and the public's appetite for simple, informal meals and bar snacks using top-quality British produce. MI+ME serves artisan meat and cheese boards (sourced from British farms), and salt-beef sandwiches or hand-carved bacon baps. The food is complemented by delicious boutique coffee, craft beers, house wines and cocktails, while the decor augments the informal, rustic, drop-in theme: reclaimed furniture, jam-jar light fixtures and wooden benches that were designed and built by the team.MI+ME has proved a hit and is a permanent installation offering an array of events including gin masterclasses or cured meat and craft ales, working with local suppliers to deliver insight into small craft business who provide the products to the venue.#Hashtag Coffee Shop Berlin, situated in Marriott's Courtyard Berlin hotel, is a lively, fashionable café serving tasty comfort food with a local twist, including melted cheese and pastrami sandwiches and baked potatoes served with innovative local fillings, such as curry wurst and doner kebab. The café has a strong following and the signature lunch offerings are a firm favourite in the local market. In Budapest, the Marionett Craft Beer House was masterminded by a local entrepreneur, Imre Toth, following a highly successful community competition. The winning concept is an intriguing industrial-style space featuring handmade puppet characters as an eye-catching feature that illustrate each of the 20 draft beer pumps. Tables, bar stools, an open kitchen and a blackboard menu complement the industrial chic surroundings, designed to appeal to locals as much as hotel guests and tourists.For more information, please visit – www.canvas-startup.com.
Signed in 2014, the management contract between the Chinese Reignwood Group and the Canadian chain will come into effect with the reopening of Four Seasons Ten Trinity Square in London after works. An historic monument, the main building frames square courtyard with a rotunda in the center of a one hectare garden. Built in 1922, the building was the headquarters of the Port of London Authority, near the City and Tower Bridge.
Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury hotel company and a member of Dubai Holding, has appointed Nicola Johnson as Director of Global Business Development – UK, Ireland and Scandinavia – Leisure.
A new report by property consultant JLL and London & Partners, the Mayor of London's promotional company, indicates that London's budget hotel sector has seen significant growth since the city hosted the 2012 Olympic Games.
Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro is to open a boutique hotel in London’s Covent Garden, following on from the success of celebrity favourite The Greenwich in New York. Mr De Niro, working with Capital & Counties Properties (Capco) and BD Hotels, has submitted a planning application for the proposed 83-room hotel, which will be called The Wellington Hotel. The plans would see Mr De Niro, Ira Drukier and Richard Born - the team behind The Greenwich Hotel in New York’s Tribeca district - open their first hotel outside of the US.
Kashyap GOHIL ESSEC IMHI 2006 has been appointed as Vice President Global Development and Planning for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, based in London. Kashyap started in 20016 as Senior Associate Starwood Hotels and Resorts in Brussels, then he joined Westmont Hospitality group and Acquisition manager for 5 years and Transactions Manager for the last 18 months.
Audrey SEIGNE SAADE ESSEC IMHI 2009 has been promoted to Regional Revenue Manager - Midscale and Upscale AccorHotels London. Audrey joined AccorHotels upon graduation as Revenue Manager for Mercure, then for Novotel and Mercure and more recently Audrey held the position of Revenue & Reservations Manager for Pullman London.
STR's preliminary April 2016 data for London, England, indicates relatively flat performance when compared with the same month from 2015.Based on daily data from April, London reported the following in year-over-year comparisons:
Jumeirah Group has appointed Paul Skinner as Director of Operations at Jumeirah Carlton Tower, the 216-room hotel situated in London’s Knightsbridge.
Leading hotel connectivity solutions provider eRevMax has completed 2-way XML integration with Fastpayhotels, a recently launched B2B hotel distribution platform. Accommodation providers, using eRevMax distribution solutions RTConnect, RateTiger and LIVE OS can now make real-time rate and availability updates and receive automatic transfer of bookings received in the channel.
The Ascott Limited has appointed Roberto De Vivo as food and beverage manager at The Cavendish London. Roberto will oversee the F&B strategy for The Cavendish’s two AA Rosette restaurant, Petrichor. He joins from neighbouring five-star Dukes Hotel where he managed the business development, sales and marketing for the hotel’s three AA Rosette fine dining restaurant THIRTY SIX, as well as its afternoon tea and champagne lounges, meeting and events spaces and room service.
Law firm Edwin Coe LLP has announced it is representing 487 claimants in a class action lawsuit to be heard in the High Court in London next week, "Abbot & Others v RCI Europe". The case, which is listed as a 10 day trial, concerns claims of detriment suffered by members of the RCI worldwide timeshare exchange club, part of the Wyndham Worldwide Corporation.