The Cranleigh Boutique has been announced as the winner in the ‘Best Use of Facebook’ category at the 2014 UK Social Media Awards, held at the Emirates Stadium in London to celebrate the very best in 18 categories of social media communications across the UK and to recogne the companies and individuals leading the way through their innovation and creativity. Best Use of … [Read more...]
Tune Hotels announces £200m investments in UK
Global hotel chain Tune Hotels - part of the Tune Group, the private investment group of Tony Fernandes, founder and Group CEO of low-cost airline AirAsia, owner of Caterham Cars and Chairman of QPR Football Club - has unveiled plans to open up to 25 new properties by 2020, amounting to a further £200m in the UK. The announcement comes as the select-service hotel group … [Read more...]
The Hospitality Show to celebrate the Very Best of British Hospitality
Registration is now live for The Hospitality Show 2015 as the UK’s largest tradeshow in its calendar year returns to the second city to celebrate the very best of British hospitality. New products, new exhibitors, new ideas and a new business focus will all be ushered in on a wave of New Year optimism as the Birmingham NEC opens its doors from 19-21 January, for three days … [Read more...]
Which? reveals the best and worst UK hotel chains
Premier Inn has beaten Travelodge in the battle to be crowned top ‘budget’ hotel, as part of a Which? survey to find the best UK chain hotels, with luxury hotel brand Sofitel taking overall top spot in this year’s survey with an impressive customer score of 83%, the highest out of all 29 hotel brands featured. Premier Inn comes in second on 82% and Warner Leisure Hotels … [Read more...]
How many stars are in the sky tonight?
Travelodge has shared some of the bizarre requests that its business customers have asked whilst staying in one of the Company’s 513 hotels in the last 12 months. Between them, Travelodge hotel teams receive more than 200,000 strange requests every year and this year’s list of revelations includes a rise in requests from business customers seeking help to prepare for their … [Read more...]