John Billane has joined the Legacy Falcon Hotel in Chapel Street as General Manager after working in the hospitality sector for 35 years. In the late 1990s, he was area director for The Craigendarroch Hotel & Resorts near Ballater in Aberdeenshire and the Hilton Dunkeld House Hotel & Resort in Perthshire when Legacy Hotels and Resorts’ chief executive officer Andy … [Read more...]
LateRooms.com gets on board with TfL
Hotel booking specialist, LateRooms.com has teamed up with Transport for London (TfL) to offer users of tfl.gov.uk a discount of up to 50 per cent off their wide range of properties including boutique rooms, top 5* hotels and luxury apartments. Most popular tourist destination in the world London has been officially recognised as the most popular tourist destination in the … [Read more...]
Launch of luxury range of bathroom products for hotels
A new range of luxury bathroom essentials and washroom products, designed to revolutionise the hospitality and leisure sector, has launched across the UK and could be seen and sampled at the recent Hotelympia. Pasture Naturals offers a four-strong product collection to the market, which is a first of its kind, made using naturally sourced plant extracts and essences used in … [Read more...]
Positive growth for London hotels in April
STR Global’s preliminary April data for London indicate positive growth in all key performance indicators. Based on daily data from April, London reported: increases in supply (1.3 percent) and demand (3.0 percent); a 1.6-percent increase in occupancy to 83.7 percent; a 5.3-percent increase in average daily rate to GBP136.70; and a 7.0-percent rise in revenue per … [Read more...]
Boycott of The Dorchester Collection taking effect
It has now been widely publicised that The Dorchester Collection of hotels, owned by the Sultan of Brunei, is being boycotted by a number of celebrities and their supporters after the country introduced a law to punish gays with death by stoning. Whilst it is not possible to assess the value of business being lost by The Dorchester Collection, there is no doubt that it is … [Read more...]