GroupLeader.com is a new Irish travel technology company based in Dublin and co-founded by Bob Haugh (founder of Travel Department and ClickandGo.com) and Fergal O’Brien with the mission to make organising group travel really easy. Its new website delivers a ‘one-stop-shop’ for group travel organisers to book the best hotels, ground transport providers, tour guides, visitor … [Read more...]
Premier Inn: 8,000 new jobs over next five years
Premier Inn, the UK’s leading hotel chain, will create 8,000 new jobs over the next five years due to its rapid expansion plans as it opens a new hotel every 10 days. The announcement was made at the official opening of Premier Inn's latest hotel, London City (Monument), by Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants Managing Director, Patrick Dempsey and the Minister for Employment … [Read more...]
How to market to the international guest
H & C News is pleased to publish the second in a series of articles authored by experts from Buell Consulting Group who participated in the panels and seminars at the recent Independent Hotel Show. The articles will assist independent hotels to address the challenges facing their businesses in the competitive UK market. Ally Dombey, Director of Revenue by Design Ltd, … [Read more...]
Bespoke Hotels to open Hotel Gotham
Bespoke Hotels is opening the ‘spectacular’ Hotel Gotham in Manchester in spring 2015 - promising to make it 'a fun, witty destination and a little bit naughty. We want it to be the sexiest hotel in Europe'. The completely new hotel in the central conservation area of Manchester is set in one of the city's grandest, listed buildings - former bank premises at 100 King Street … [Read more...]
Hospitality House opens for business
Matthew Hancock, Minister for Skills and Enterprise, officially opened Hospitality House, the hospitality industry’s state-of-the-art training and meeting venue in London, and new home of the Hospitality Guild. The Guild was established in 2012 as a unifying voice to simplify professional development within hospitality, with funding from the UK Commission for Employment and … [Read more...]