InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG®), one of the world's leading hotel companies, today announced the signing of two hotels at Aberdeen International Airport: Crowne Plaza® Aberdeen Airport and Holiday Inn Express® Aberdeen Airport. Both hotels will operate under franchise agreements with long-time owner partner Dominvs Group.
Starwood Capital Group, a leading global private investment firm, announced today that a controlled affiliate has acquired a portfolio of four extended-stay hotels and one residential complex in London for £206 million ($312 million).
Every year, the hotel experts and analysts at Horwath HTL worldwide produce a series of mini-country reports exclusively for The Hotel Yearbook. Each report focuses on just two things: first, a quick snapshot of the country’s current economic and hotel market situation, and second, the outlook for the year ahead, highlighting specific events that are anticipated to have an impact on the health of the country’s hotel business.
Katara Hospitality, the Qatar-based global owner, developer and operator of iconic hotels, has added the first London landmark property to its portfolio of international hotels with an investment in The Savoy, A Fairmont Managed Hotel.
Consolidation amongst major hotel companies will be one of the key themes of 2015 as large groups seek to grow their business or risk being taken over themselves.
Leading global hotel management company, Interstate Hotels & Resorts, has appointed Paolo Franchi as general manager at Hampton by Hilton Newcastle, scheduled to open in Spring 2015. The new 160 room city centre Hampton by Hilton Newcastle, which replaces the eight storey Baron House located on Neville Street, is located opposite Newcastle Central Station which has itself undergone a multi-million pound makeover. Franchi joins Interstate from his position as General Manager at the Quality Hotel Boldon near Newcastle where he was responsible for the pre-opening and opening of one of the region’s newest and most stylish hotels and oversaw the achievement of a four star rating for the area’s first and only four star hotel only nine months after opening.
Capitalising on its position in London's most fashionable district, Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London is delighted to announce an exclusive partnership with French high end luxury Maison Chloé, as the Spring/Summer 2015 collections arrive in stores, commencing Thursday 12th February 2015.
The O2, the new 453-bedroom 18-storey luxury hotel currently in construction as part of a 7.6 acre development scheme on London's Greenwich Peninsula, will create in excess of 500 new job opportunities, boosting the local economy.
London hotels reported a slight increase in gross operating profit per available room (GOPPAR) in the month of November, but the UK provinces continued to show much more positive year-on-year movements with Eastern hoteliers in the lead recording a 27.7% surge, according to the latest data from HotStats.
With a proven track record in luxury hotel sales, Mr. Partridge joins from the Dorchester Collection where he was Area Director of Sales. His role included managing a 35-strong sales and event planning team for three UK hotels: The Dorchester, 45 Park Lane and Coworth Park. Previous experience in the UK includes roles as Opening General Manager for the Montpellier Chapter Hotel in Cheltenham, General Manager for the York & Albany, owned by Gordon Ramsay Holdings and roles at the Maybourne Hotel Group, culminating in a two-year stint as House Manager at Claridge’s in London.
It opened to great fanfare promising spectacular views across London, but the first guests of the Shangri-La in The Shard got rather more than they bargained for. A design fault appeared to give the ultimate 'peeping Tom' view into other rooms, with guests complaining about unwanted sights and the Shangri-La hastily erecting some modesty blinds. So perhaps it is unsurprising that the luxury hotel on The Shard's 34th to 52nd floors has been voted the worst hotel opening of 2014 by expert reviewers at Luxury Travel Intelligence.
Mark Cooper, CEO of IACC has announced the election of Rachael Bartlett as President of IACC-Europe for a two-year term.
The winners of the prestigious Annual 'Hospitality Finance, Revenue Management and IT Awards of the Year 2014' were announced yesterday (18 December) in London by HOSPA – the UK's leading educational organisation for professionals involved in Financial Management, Revenue Management and IT within the hospitality industry.
Interstate Hotels & Resorts – the leading U.S.-based global hotel management company – announces six new hotels recently signed in the U.K. The additions continue to demonstrate Interstate as a top choice for independent management, offering a successful operating strategy that combines economies of size with agility in deploying resources focused on achieving a positive impact on the bottom line.
In partnership with hospitality's leading provider of above property marketing solutions for two years, the Wales resort reaps a remarkable return on its investment and a 38.66% revenue increase from new guest reservations
UK provincial hotel group The Hotel Collection has today selected SiteMinder's Channel Manager to provide its entire four-star portfolio real-time access to more than 200 distribution channels worldwide.
Saar Sharon is the newly appointed CEO of Leonardo Hotels in the UK, where his brief is to lead the company's expansion through asset acquisition, joint ventures and leasing across the UK. As an alumnus of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, we thought it fitting to ask one of Saar's old professors to interview him on behalf of The Hotel Yearbook. Demian Hodari, the school's expert on hotel ownership and management structures, rose to the occasion. Their conversation touched on the advantages of being small and emerging trends in ownership structure.
Marriott International (NASDAQ: MAR) and Aberdeen City Council have today signed an agreement to deliver a brand new Residence Inn by Marriott hotel on the new Marischal Square development in the centre of Aberdeen. Work on the hotel, which is aimed at the extended-stay business and leisure markets, will begin in January 2015 and is expected to be completed by summer 2017.
Whitbread announced that, after ten successful years with the company, Patrick Dempsey, Managing Director of Whitbread Hotels & Restaurants (WHR), will be stepping down from the Board and leaving the company on 28th February 2015. Paul Flaum, currently head of Whitbread Restaurants, will become the new MD WHR on 1st March 2015. Paul has worked for Whitbread for 11 years and was Chief Operating Officer for WHR prior to becoming MD Restaurants. Reporting to Paul will be Simon Jones, who becomes MD Premier Inn UK and hub by Premier Inn (currently Marketing & Strategy Director) and Mark Anderson who will add responsibility for Premier Inn Germany to his existing responsibilities for Property, Procurement and Logistics.
Whitbread announces today that, after ten successful years with the company, Patrick Dempsey, Managing Director of Whitbread Hotels & Restaurants (WHR), will be stepping down from the Board and leaving the company on 28th February 2015.