Concord Hospitality Enterprises Company, joined by representatives from the Crystal Coast Tourism Authority, broke ground yesterday on the 133-room Beaufort Hotel, an Ascend Hotel Collection®. The property is a joint venture between Concord and Beaufort Hospitality Enterprises. Slated to open in 2018 in a popular tourist destination, those involved with the project expect it to have a significant impact on the region.
A number of people have asked themselves how the recent tragedies in the U.K. might have affected the market's hotels. While there is still not a long enough range of data to draw any definitive conclusions, we thought it important to take this opportunity to look into is in some detail.
COMO Hotels and Resorts has announced the appointment of David Monson as the new General Manager of COMO The Halkin — COMO’s 41-bedroom boutique hotel in Belgravia, London.
Splendid Hospitality Group appoints Najlaa El-Alami, as Marketing & Events Sales Manager for Holiday Inn London – Wembley, a prime, flexible meetings and events venue in North West London.
Thanasis Chondrozoumakis has been appointed Food and Beverage Manager at Hilton London Bankside where he will oversee operations in OXBO Bankside, The Distillery Bar, In-Room Dining and the Executive Lounge and will seek to enhance the outdoor dining on Prices Street.
The UK finds itself in tumultuous times – uncertainty has become somewhat of the norm. Besides questions raised about Brexit implications – ranging from the devaluation of the Pound and the resulting increase in operating costs to securing continued access to qualified and motivated labour – additionally, hotel and restaurant operators have had to deal with new, recently introduced governmental policies and regulations further impacting the bottom line.
Cycas Hospitality and Slough Urban Renewal (SUR) has secured a deal to develop two new Marriott International hotels - Moxy and Residence Inn by Marriott. The hotels will be located on the former Central Library site, a landmark location on the A4 between the town centre and the station where Crossrail trains will operate from 2019.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), one of the world"s leading hotel companies, has announced the signing of Hotel Indigo® London - One Leicester Square. The hotel marks IHG"s debut presence in Leicester Square and continues the growth of the Hotel Indigo brand as its fourth property in London and eleventh in the UK.
Situated in vibrant Canning Town in East London, La Roka is a stunning new development and is the first opening for Roomspace Serviced Apartments in this area, growing the Roomspace footprint in London to nine popular locations. The building is just 2 minutes from the underground, and 4 minutes from Canary Wharf.
STR's preliminary June 2017 data for London, England, indicates strong rate growth. Based on daily data from June, London reported the following in year-over-year comparisons:
The Grand Hotel & Spa, York – Yorkshire’s only AA 5-star hotel – has appointed 14-year-old Sam as its very own ‘Director Of Fun & Families’ and will lead a campaign to help children get the most out of their visits to York.
Global hospitality management software company Xn protel Systems today announced the implementation and go-live of protel SPE/MPE at Edinburgh Collection's latest acquisition, the Hub Hotel in Edinburgh.
Deploying chatbots on these channels can yield real rewards according to EyeforTravel and Travelaer's new Are Bots Worth the Bother? report, which is free to download now.
Millennium Hotels and Resorts has announced that Mr Franck Kermarrec has been appointed Global Chief Marketing Officer. Kermarrec joins Millennium Hotels and Resorts from Hertz International, an international car rental company, where he worked since 2016 as the Head of Business Strategy.
The hospitality industry’s stellar growth since the financial crisis could be halted and start to fall by 2021 if the Government continues to overlook it, a new report has suggested. Research by Ignite Economics, carried out for the British Hospitality Association, has predicted the sector’s workforce could begin to drop by 2021 with the contribution it makes to the economy also falling as cost pressures from wages and business rates bite alongside a potential labour squeeze once the UK leaves the EU.
Jade Boulter has been appointed General Manager of Holiday Inn Sutton hotel. A young and ambitious hotelier, Boulter will lead the 78-strong team at the 119-bed Sutton hotel, welcoming guests from across the region and further afield as they travel to and through the southern counties and Greater London.
Did you know that 7 out of ten UK households took a holiday in the past year? Or that 76% of Brits prefer to book their next holiday online? Brits love to travel. Escaping our typical gloomy weather every year, is to us, as natural as putting the kettle on after a hard day's work (54% of us even take our tea bags on holiday with us!). But where do we like to go? How do we get there? Who do we take? Here, Panoramic Villas, have explored how us Brits like to holiday. Check out the infographic below.
This is the enthralling latest addition to Britain's Legoland theme park - a new hotel with 657 models made with a total of 2.1 million bricks. Wannabe knights and wizards of all ages have an exciting treat in store at the Castle Hotel, the newly opened addition to Legoland Windsor Resort. It has 61 fantastical family bedrooms (with separate sleeping areas), in knight and wizard themes, set to fire children's imaginations. I took my (almost) four-year-old, Ollie, for a very special sleepover the night before it opened, and we were in good company. Celebs we spotted included Steps' Claire Richards and her family, McFly's Tom Fletcher and wife Giovanna and their two kids, Buddy and Buzz, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor and her brood. Everything was awesome but these were the particular highlights...
Coast & Country Hotels, part of the Shearings Leisure Group, has extended its hotel distribution to the Global Distribution Systems (GDS) for the first time ever, joining HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts' HO chain code.
The report looked into how far travel brands have made use of Facebook Messenger to deliver customer service and booking to customer. It finds that while 93% of these airlines have a Facebook page, and 81% a Messenger link, only 38% of the 206 contacted responded to researchers' messages, with a third of those contacted taking at least a week to reply.