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There is still time to sign up to the Hospitality Action Three Peaks Challenge 2012. This is the second year the event, held in partnership with Nestlé Professional, has been run and a number of industry players are already gearing up for the challenge, which will take place from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 June.
Posted: 21 May 2012 | 16:26
Bovey Castle, the 64-bedroom country house hotel within Dartmoor National Park, has been put on the market for £17.5m - nearly £10m less that its current owners paid for the property six years ago. Property investment company Delancey bought the hotel from Peter De Savary in 2006, for £26.4m.
Posted: 21 May 2012 | 16:16
Hotel Indigo - the boutique brand from InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) - is to launch its first property in Wales. The 92-bedroom Hotel Indigo Queen Street Cardiff will become the fifth Hotel Indigo to be managed by Sanguine Hospitality.
Posted: 21 May 2012 | 13:01
Failure to provide good service to vegetarians and vegans could be costing the food service industry £1.8b, according to a new study by the Vegetarian Society. The survey results found that vegetarians accounted for nearly £2.5b-worth of food eaten outside of the home each year.
Posted: 21 May 2012 | 11:24
CVS chief executive Mark Rigby explains how to claim a reduction in business rates if you feel your trading circumstances have changed
Posted: 18 May 2012 | 17:13
They're the night-time companions that nobody in the business wants to recognise. And when guests wake after a night with them they are usually less than impressed. I'm talking, of course, about the parasitic elephant in the room - bedbugs.
Posted: 18 May 2012 | 17:02
The Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group has appointed Ray Keogh as the general manager of the Park Inn by Radisson Peterborough. Keogh joined Rezidor in 2002 as assistant bar manager at the Park Inn Northampton, before being promoted to front office manager at the hotel four years later.
Posted: 18 May 2012 | 16:38
Peter Bush has been appointed as assistant general manager of the Arches hotel in Swansea after a brief spell in NHS management. Previous roles have included night general manager at the Maldron hotel, Cardiff, assistant general manager at the four-star Dales hotel in Upper Sheringham and front of house manager at Holiday Inn.
Posted: 18 May 2012 | 16:38
Martin Smyth has joined Bank of Ireland UK as the new head of hotels and healthcare. Smyth has been with the bank in Britain for more than 30 years and has been a senior relationship director within the hotels and healthcare team for the past five years.
Posted: 18 May 2012 | 16:37
Hotel management and development company Sanguine Hospitality has appointed Mark Davies as its new general manager for Hotel Indigo Birmingham. Davies will lead the 52-bedroom hotel and its skyline Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill restaurant at the Cube.
Posted: 18 May 2012 | 16:37
As a permanent wheelchair user, I am always showing taxi drivers, porters and receptionists how to open, close and secure a wheelchair so that I can sit in it. This can be extremely difficult from the back seat of a car or while trying to get out of a taxi and standing on one leg.
Posted: 18 May 2012 | 16:00
A key supplier is in financial difficulties and you're not sure whether goods you've paid for will be delivered. Legal expert Jessica Lorimer explains your rights and how to manage the risks
Posted: 18 May 2012 | 15:59
Fire is not an issue to be taken lightly, but many operators still tread a fine line between risk and safety. Tom Vaughan explains operators' obligations and speaks to those who have had to deal with disaster
Posted: 18 May 2012 | 14:28
The St Ermin's hotel in Westminster has been put on the market for £165.5m. Commercial property specialist Jones Lang LaSalle has been appointed to exclusively market the hotel on behalf of holding firm St Ermin's Operating. Jones Lang LaSalle said it was advertising it with a guide price of £500,000 per room.
Posted: 18 May 2012 | 12:04
Anthony Worrall has joined InterContinental Hotels Group as the new general manager at Crowne Plaza London - The City, after spending 19 years with Hilton Worldwide. The property he joins has recently undergone extensive improvements, including a new entrance to nearby Blackfriars Station.
Posted: 17 May 2012 | 18:37
Hotels across the country defied the economic gloom and unfavourable weather to post an exceptionally strong set of results in April, according to preliminary figures released by PKF Hotel Consultancy Services. London recorded a 9.7% year-on-year increase in rooms yield, from £94.86 to £104.06.
Posted: 17 May 2012 | 18:07
Philip Newman-Hall has risen from the ranks of a waiter in an Eastbourne hotel to become managing director of one of the UK's most lauded country house hotels, Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, and right-hand man to its inspirational creator, Raymond Blanc. He speaks to Janet Harmer
Posted: 17 May 2012 | 17:56
The grand final of the Nestlé Toque d'Or, organised by Nestlé Professional, is under way today with student teams from eight of the UK's catering colleges battling it out for the crown. The teams will encounter a range of exciting catering scenarios, including a task with the British Army.
Posted: 17 May 2012 | 17:46
Sustainable luxury is not an oxymoron. It can be found throughout some of the UK's leading hotels, but today it is more about the basics than the bling. Emily Manson reports on a new, carefully considered approach to business
Posted: 17 May 2012 | 14:59
Raymond Blanc is chef-patron of Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, an award-winning 32-bedroom country house hotel with a two-Michelin-starred restaurant and a cookery school for both amateurs and professionals. He is also a director of Blanc Brasseries and a well-known television chef.
Posted: 17 May 2012 | 14:22
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