Adele Oxberry FIH is the founder and CEO of Umbrella Training, a leading nationwide training and apprenticeship provider for the hospitality industry. We took five minutes out recently to catch up with Adele and find out why hospitality and training are both lifetime passions for her. How did you get into the industry? My mother was the executive … [Read more...]
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Global hotel superpower outlook
Global hotel superpowers share recovery outlook agreeing and disagreeing on where it will focus. Senior executives from Accor, Marriott, and other global hotel brands took part in a webinar event earlier this week hosted by New York University. The webinar event took place to review the impact from Covid-19 on hotels around the world, from hoteliers that operate … [Read more...]
Morgenrot To Raise Money for Alzheimer’s Charities in 50th Year
Manchester-based beer, wine and spirit importer Morgenrot is looking to raise money for Alzheimer’s charities and causes in 2020 through a wide range of fundraising activities as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations. Set up on the 23rd September 1970, Morgenrot continues to be a proudly independent, family-run importer with famous world beer brands such as Krombacher, … [Read more...]
Travelodge Owners Action Group raise temperatures in CVA dispute
Travelodge is embroiled in an ever increasingly bitter row following refusing to pay landlords any rent for the second three months of 2020. Travelodge is moving itself into insolvency proceedings using a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), in an attempt to reduce its rent costs by circa 40% to the end of 2021 and save 10,000 jobs. Where much of the disagreement … [Read more...]
Hospitality robots a new normal
The advent of social media was largely greeted with scepticism, a fad that would disappear as its novelty wore off. Today social media is what it is. Used by half the world’s population, and receiving $100 billion of advertising revenue directly, alongside untold billions in associated marketing spend. In the early 21st century as social media channels emerged, … [Read more...]