Hotels
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The 62-bedroom Ellenborough Park hotel, which opened in Cheltenham a year ago, has just been awarded five stars by the AA. Situated in a 16th-century manor house, overlooking Cheltenham racecourse, the hotel is operated by the Mantis Group.
Posted: 03 April 2012 | 12:17
The go-ahead has been given for the conversion of the former Port of London Authority headquarters, next to the Tower of London, into a luxury hotel. Work is now expected to start later this year on the development of the Grade II-listed building at 10 Trinity Square into a 120-bedroom hotel with 41 serviced apartments.
Posted: 03 April 2012 | 11:58
Adam Smith, premier sous chef at the Ritz in London, has been named the 2012 Roux Scholar. Smith, who had entered the prestigious competition for the first time this year, won the title following a fierce cook-off in the kitchens of London's Westminster Kingsway College yesterday (2 April).
Posted: 03 April 2012 | 10:04
Hotel Solutions London, which went into administration last week, has been sold to Housekeeping Solutions, run by a director of the original company. Based in Wembley, Middlesex, the hotel servicing, housekeeping and catering business held contracts with hotels and shops.
Posted: 02 April 2012 | 18:27
Norman Springford, chairman of Apex Hotels, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Hospitality Industry Trust (HIT) Scotland. The award was unanimously awarded to Springford, whose Edinburgh-based company owns and operates eight hotels in Edinburgh, Dundee and London.
Posted: 02 April 2012 | 18:20
The five-red-AA-star, 20-bedroom Seaham Hall in Durham has become the latest former Von Essen hotel to be sold. Originally put on the market for £12.5m, the price was later slashed to £5m. It is believed that the new owners Seasons Holidays paid less than the asking price.
Posted: 02 April 2012 | 16:06
Laura Ashley has bought a 49-bedroom hotel in Hertfordshire to showcase its range of furnishings and design service. The Edgwarebury hotel in Elstree, was purchased by the high-street group for £5.8m from Corus Hotels, which is controlled by MUI Group.
Posted: 02 April 2012 | 13:33
One of the original founders of Luxury Family Hotels (LFH), Nicholas Dickinson, has returned to the UK hotel market to buy the three-red-AA-star, 26-bedroom Congham Hall in North Norfolk - one of the last remaining hotels from the Von Essen administration to be sold.
Posted: 02 April 2012 | 12:25
When Anthony and Peta Lloyd bought Fallowfields in 1993, they had no experience of running a hotel. Since then, it has grown to include 10 bedrooms and a small farm, and a restaurant with two AA rosettes. Neil Gerrard reports
Posted: 02 April 2012 | 12:16
The 29-bedroom Royal Crescent hotel in Bath - one of the trophy assets in the collapsed Von Essen portfolio of hotels - has been sold for a rumoured £18m to private international investment company the Topland Group. The Grade I-listed hotel was originally put on the market for £22m.
Posted: 30 March 2012 | 18:22
With the year of sport well and truly under way our business tracker operators are already looking to learn all they can from warm-up events, the torch relay and the Diamond Jubilee, before the expected Olympic prize. James Stagg reports
Posted: 30 March 2012 | 16:56
The Best Western group of independently owned hotels has announced its first new members joining at the Best Western PLUS level. Best Western PLUS Maldron Hotel in Cardiff (pictured) and the Best Western PLUS Park Grand London Heathrow Gateway are two newly built hotels.
Posted: 30 March 2012 | 14:41
A group of competing hotels in Perthshire have come together to produce a film showcasing the area's environmental tourism credentials to audiences throughout the UK and overseas. The film features Perthshire's Green Resorts group working together to exchange ideas and promote sustainability.
Posted: 30 March 2012 | 12:28
A hotel bar manager has been ordered to pay £1,400 after serving two short measures. Andrew Halliday, who works at the Ramada hotel in Salford Quays, was caught out by trading standards officers when they ordered a shot each of gin and whiskey, according to The Metro.
Posted: 30 March 2012 | 10:39
De Vere Venues has made a number of senior level appointments at its latest venue, De Vere Venues Colmore Gate. Geraldine Dolan joins as general manager from De Vere Venues Uplands House.
Posted: 30 March 2012 | 09:02
Brett Hercock has been promoted to the position of food and beverage director at the Grosvenor House in London. The former Acorn Award winner will head up the operational teams of food and beverage ...
Posted: 30 March 2012 | 09:01
Park Plaza County Hall has announced two new appointments. Kitti Sarossy has joined the hotel as meetings and events sales manager.
Posted: 30 March 2012 | 09:00
Mitchells & Butlers and Aramark were the big winners at last week's Menu Innovation and Development Awards (MIDAS), picking up three and two awards respectively. The MIDAS awards, held at the Cumberland hotel, London, were founded in 2009 by the Menu Innovation Network.
Posted: 29 March 2012 | 12:00
Cleaning and outsourcing businesses Hotel Solutions London and Totally Clean Solution have gone into administration. Jason Baker and Geoff Rowley, partners at the restructuring, recovery and insolvency firm FRP Advisory, have been appointed joint administrators.
Posted: 28 March 2012 | 17:17
Profile – Andre Chiang: The celebrated Singapore chef explains "octaphilosophy" - the eight words that describe his unique approach to cooking; The Caterer and Hotelkeeper Interview – Robin Sheppard: The chairman of Bespoke Hotels, one of the UK's largest hotel management businesses, on turning around failing hotels
Posted: 28 March 2012 | 12:31
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