Month: January 2019
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Jan- 2019 -17 JanuaryHotels
Premier Inn owner sees total sales up for third quarter
Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn, has reported total sales growth of 2.5% for the hotel brand in its Q3…
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16 JanuaryAdvice
How to get payment and booking systems right
Critical to the day-to-day running of a successful hotel is organisation; it’s necessarily a keystone in operational management from back…
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16 JanuaryFeatures
Responding to the demands of conscientious travellers
Sustainability within the hospitality industry has come a long way since the arrival of in-room suggestions to reuse towels and…
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16 JanuaryHotels
Bedford Lodge Hotel unveils new ‘luxury’ expansion
The Bedford Lodge Hotel and Spa in Newmarket, Suffolk, has unveiled a new expansion to the property, the Mews, set…
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16 JanuaryHotels
Audleys Wood Hotel named Hand Picked Hotels’ ‘Hotel of the Year’
Hand Picked Hotels, a collection of privately-owned country house hotels and spa resorts, has awarded Audleys Wood Hotel in Hampshire…
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16 JanuaryEconomy
Hotels defy consumer spending decline in December
Consumer spending continued to fall in the month of December with a 1% decline, however hotels managed to defy the…
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16 JanuaryAppointments
Holiday Inn Express Bridgwater appoints Barnaby Kean as GM
Holiday Inn Express Bridgwater has appointed Barnaby Kean as its general manager ahead of the hotel’s spring 2019 opening. He…
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15 JanuaryHotels
MacDonald Hotels to axe 50 jobs at Bathgate headquarters
MacDonald Hotels group has reportedly announced it will be cutting up to 50 members of staff at its Bathgate headquarters,…
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15 JanuaryHotels
UK hotel market struggling to keep up with Europe, says UKHospitality
New data from UKHospitality has revealed that the UK hotel market is underperforming compared to the EU average “on every…
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15 JanuaryAdvice
What should a room look like?
A very interesting article by Tammy La Gorce in the New York Times on 26 May got me thinking again…
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