The Best Western Cresta Court Hotel in Altrincham, South Manchester, has this week announced the appointment of Scott McDonald to the role of general manager. This follows the retirement of Paul Hindley, after a successful 20-year tenure in the Hotel’s top job.
As a pioneer in cloud-based property management and online distribution system, Hotelogix is all set to showcase its revolutionary mobile app, Hotelogix Mobile Hotel, at the leading global event for the travel industry, WTM 2017, London from 6-8 November. Come meet us at booth TT459.
The Pilgrm, a new venture from long-time collaborators Jason Catifeoglou, Andreas Thrasyvoulou and Steph Thrasyvoulou, is slated to open in Paddington"s Norfolk Square in November.
onrad London St. James is delighted to announce the appointment of Peter Feely as Hotel Manager. With over 20 years of experience in the luxury hospitality industry, Peter joins the hotel from Sofitel London St. James where he worked as Hotel Manager since 2014. Prior to that, Peter spent four years at Chancery Court Hotel London where he held the role of Director of Operations before becoming Hotel Manager. After receiving a degree in International Hospitality Management from the University of Central Lancashire Peter spent his early career in roles abroad such as Beijing, Rio de Janeiro and Washington. On returning to the UK Peter also worked in management positions in a number of Marriott Hotels properties as part of their UKIMEA Task Force.
The site is currently disused offices on Waterloo Street, Glasgow and will undergo a major redevelopment over the coming months.
Georgian House, the London EDITION, Red Carnation, The Ritz London and Shangri La at the Shard have all signed up to the innovative scheme, where students can apply for a stay in one of these prestigious hotels whilst gaining real practical experience shadowing the management team and staff.
The Wine House Hotel 1821. A boutique hotel in a Georgian townhouse is set to open in the centre of Edinburgh this month.
We looked across all the searches and compiled user behaviour data* to reveal where travellers to the UK are vacationing, where they're coming from, how long they're staying and how much they're spending for accommodation this autumn.
You could go from managing budgets and financial plans to promoting and marketing the business within minutes; there's always something going on and you're at the heart of it all. While the aim is to make sure your guests are happy and safe on the premises, it also means your staff need to be safe when on the job too, and they need to be aware that the hotel manager has practices in place that will keep them safe even when they're not around to assist.
In an address this week at London's Hotel Tech Live, Magnuson Hotels CEO and co-founder Thomas Magnuson stated that recent disruptions to the UK hotel inventory are presenting new opportunities for struggling independent hotel owners.
The organizers of the Hotel Investment Conference Europe (Hot.E) 2017, announced the winners of the Hot.E Deal of the Year Awards in the categories of Merger & Acquisition/Portfolio of the Year and Single Asset Transaction of the Year. The awards were presented at Hot.E on 27 September 2017, at the Hilton London Bankside. Invesco Real Estate Portfolio sale to Pandox was named Merger & Acquisition/Portfolio of the Year.
Russell Kett, chairman of HVS London and long-standing commentator and consultant to the hotel industry, was today awarded the prestigious Hotel Investment Conference Europe (Hot.E) Hall of Fame Award 2017. The Award was presented at this week’s Hot.E conference, being held in London, by Jim Burba, president of host organisation Burba Hotel Network (BHN).The Hall of Fame Award recognises an investor, developer, or hotel leader whose career has had a profound and positive impact on the European hotel industry. The honouree is recognised for their business success, intellectual leadership, and personal dedication to maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards.After gaining his hotel school qualifications some 45 years ago, Kett joined Strand Hotels as an internal auditor before becoming the assistant financial controller of London’s Cumberland Hotel. He entered consultancy initially with accountancy firms Deloitte & Touche and BDO Stoy Hayward (Horwath Consulting), before joining HVS in January 1995. Kett is now chairman of the London office of HVS, the leading global specialist hotel valuation, consulting and brokerage firm. Its London office has some 30 people working exclusively on hotel valuations, feasibility studies, market studies, shared ownership developments, executive search, asset management, investment appraisals, brokerage, and investment banking. He is a frequent writer, moderator and speaker on the international hotel industry and lectures at leading international hotel schools including Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, IMHI-Essec in Paris, Cornell University, Oxford Brookes University and the Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde, where he was a visiting senior lecturer for 11 years. In 2011 he was awarded the HOSPA Lifetime Achievement Award.
Emma Dore, the former general manager at Malmasion Oxford, has moved to the 48-bedroom Hotel du Vin & Bistro Wimbledon. Dore has worked with the group for 16 years and has held general manager roles with Malmasion in Newcastle and Leeds, as well as Oxford. The Wimbledon hotel, based in Cannizaro House on Wimbledon Common, joined the Hotel du Vin brand in 2015 after being acquired by the company the previous year.
Steven Wilmer (left) has been promoted to general manager of the 60-bedroom Malmaison Cheltenham, having joined the hotel as deputy general manager in December 2016 when he was selected to join the company’s Rising Star programme. He originally joined the group in 2014 as bistro and events manager at Hotel du Vin St Andrews and was later promoted to deputy general manager at Hotel du Vin Harrogate.
Hilton London Gatwick Airport welcomes the appointment of Kara Monteiro as its new general manager. Monteiro replaces Remco Norden, who continues his career as general manager for Hilton London Metropole.
Marriott Hotels has announced the three winning tech start-ups of its 2017 European accelerator programme, TestBED. These selected companies will now pilot their innovative solutions and technologies in three Marriott Hotels in Europe, with a chance to grow through expert guidance from industry leaders.
Luxury travel consumers are far more comfortable using their smartphones to book their flights and accommodation than ordinary travellers according to EyeforTravel's The Global Luxury Travel Consumer report.
Park Regis, the deluxe Birmingham city centre hotel, has appointed a new general manager (GM) as the incumbent moves to an operations director role.
Despite a slowing in demand from the commercial segment, the continued year-on-year growth in top and bottom line performance at hotels in the UK was fuelled by the individual and group leisure segments this month, according to the latest worldwide poll of full-service hotels from HotStats.
The 150-room hotel officially opened on 19 September in Manchester, England, just before the first ball of the international one-day cricket series between England and the West Indies.