Marketing consortia
Ten of London's leading five-star hotels have taken the unprecedented step to work together by forming a travel website, 5ive Star London. Supported by 26 luxury brands including Fortnum & Mason, Paul Smith and Pringle of Scotland...
Posted: 29 February 2012 | 11:19
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into voucher website Groupon after it broke UK advertising regulations 48 times in 11 months. Groupon has been referred to the OFT by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), according to the BBC...
Posted: 02 December 2011 | 14:42
Sales figures for Best Western hotels have been boosted by nearly 30% following the company's first television advertising campaign in the spring. Calls to the reservations team are also up by 70% and the sales figures for Best Business, aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses...
Posted: 06 August 2010 | 17:11
Great National Hotels, a new group from Ireland, has secured its first UK business by signing up four hotels in the Midlands. The company, which already operates five properties in Ireland, is to manage the reservations and online marketing for...
Posted: 29 June 2010 | 16:01
Lime Wood has achieved a five-star rating from the AA and been accepted into the Relais & Châteaux portfolio just seven months after opening in Lyndhurst,...
Posted: 28 June 2010 | 18:00
Magnuson Hotels, the US-based consortium which was launched in the UK two weeks ago, has signed up 20 British hotels. The company, which claims to be the world’s largest independent hotel chain with 1,200 properties in North America, is targeting ...
Posted: 26 April 2010 | 15:55
Best Western remained the UK's largest hotel marketing consortium in 2009, counting more than 285 member hotels with a combined 15,305-plus bedrooms. The 140-strong Independents Hotel Association retained its grip on the second place thanks to a total tally of 9,000 bedrooms...
Posted: 15 April 2010 | 10:55
Relais & Châteaux has appointed Benoît Juillet as chief financial officer with immediate effect. Juillet also takes on the role of deputy director general, reporting to president Jaume Tàpies. Juillet joins Relais & Châteaux from the Hermès Group...
Posted: 13 April 2010 | 12:49
A request by the Pride of Britain marketing consortium that its members should be allowed to hold dual membership with its rival, Relais & Châteaux, has been rejected. Relais & Châteaux, which introduced the non dual membership rule in 1998, bans its member from belonging to competing...
Posted: 08 March 2010 | 10:22
The presentation of the Jean Webb award for quality, customer care and pride to Suzanne Harris of the Best Western Sudbury House hotel created the most poignant moment of the 2010 Best Western Hotel of the Year awards. Created in memory of Jean Webb, fellow Best Western hotelier and the late wife ...
Posted: 17 February 2010 | 12:16
Many operators see the benefits of belonging to one of the hotel consortia. But if you want to join up, you're likely to find there are some pretty exacting standards to be met. Janet Harmer reports.
Posted: 12 February 2010 | 12:41
As the Pride of Britain hotel consortium marks its 25th anniversary, chief executive Peter Hancock ponders what the next 25 years will hold
Posted: 02 August 2007 | 00:00
VisitBritain has announced that from 2006 it will promote only hotels assessed either by itself, VisitScotland, the Wales Tourist Board, the RAC or the AA.
Posted: 08 October 2004 | 10:08
