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Hotel operator Folio Hotels is ploughing £5m into the refurbishment of the St James’s Club and Hotel in London.
(31 October 2006 16:50:00)
UK hotels have enjoyed their best summer’s performance since the millennium, according to sector analysts PKF.
(31 October 2006 16:35:02)
Six out of 10 hospitality workers fear for their personal safety at work, according to a new survey.
(31 October 2006 16:33:27)
Millennium & Copthorne (M&C) is to manage the new hotel at Sheffield United FC’s Bramall Lane stadium.
(31 October 2006 15:45:00)
Hilton’s president of UK and Ireland, Howard Friedman, is to retire after 17 years at the company.
(31 October 2006 15:22:00)
Fairtrade drinks company Cafédirect has opened its first high-street coffee shop in London’s Regent Street.
(31 October 2006 15:02:00)
The limit on the number of Bulgarian and Romanian migrants allowed to work in the UK will have a damaging effect on hospitality employers, according to a leading hotel recruiter.
(31 October 2006 14:39:00)
British Hospitality Association chief executive Bob Cotton has been elected to the International Hotel & Restaurant Association’s (IH&RA) new board of directors.
(31 October 2006 14:11:11)
The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has appointed a new chief executive and chairman to take over from Vincent Wolfington, whose two-year tenure is coming to an end.
(31 October 2006 14:10:00)
Five-star hotels in London have the most expensive wireless broadband access in Europe, according to a new survey.
(31 October 2006 10:30:00)
Hilton Hotels Corporation expects to make more than $2.5b (£1.3b) in turnover this year from bookings made through its websites.
(31 October 2006 10:22:00)
Nearly six months after putting itself up for sale, struggling pub chain Honeycombe Leisure has still not found a suitable buyer, it admitted last week.
(31 October 2006 9:33:00)
Ribble Valley Inns (RVI), the Lancashire-based group behind the Three Fishes pub, has joined forces with Thwaites brewery for its second gastropub venture.
(31 October 2006 8:00:00)
Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland is planning to introduce a 'carbon levy' so its guests can help reduce the impact of travel on the environment.
(30 October 2006 17:17:00)
InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) has requested that the Belgrade Commercial Court orders Internacional CG to stop using its brand name on a hotel in the city.
(30 October 2006 15:22:00)
Costa Coffee is to introduce a loyalty card scheme at its UK stores.
(30 October 2006 14:33:00)
Fuller’s The Victoria has been voted best London pub by the reviewers on online drinking guide fancyapint.com.
(30 October 2006 13:11:00)
Accor has appointed Andrew Shaw as development director for Accor Hotels in the UK & Ireland.
(30 October 2006 13:00:00)
TGI Friday’s UK Bartender of the Year Charlotte Maxwell was placed third in the European Bartender Challenge final in Athens, Greece.
(30 October 2006 12:51:00)
Fast-food giant KFC is expected to announce the removal of cholesterol raising trans-fatty acids from its products by April next year, later today.
(30 October 2006 12:21:00)
Essential news from around the world, including: InterContinental opens sixth Indigo hotel; Fairmonts gets new vice-president of hotel sales; Kempinski set to open second Thai hotel; Mövenpick signs seven new contracts...
(30 October 2006 10:22:00)
Laurel Pub Company has completed the restructuring of its senior management team with a new appointment.
(30 October 2006 10:01:00)
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Tourism at record level in Ireland; Corfu hotel manager facing manslaughter charge; Corfu hotel manager facing manslaughter charge...
(30 October 2006 9:38:00)
Hospitality businesses employing illegal immigrants who have bought Romanian passports on the black market could be hit by £2,000 fines, experts have warned.
(30 October 2006 8:30:00)
Allan Simpson, chief executive of eRoomBidder, the online trading marketplace for hoteliers, believes that YouTube is a massive threat to hoteliers’ businesses. Here he explains why.
(30 October 2006 8:30:00)
Tourist board Visit London will today launch a Europe-wide outdoor marketing campaign.
(30 October 2006 8:00:00)
How do you go about choosing a suitable name for your business? Deborah Wyatt from Business Link offers some guidelines.
(27 October 2006 15:14:00)
Choosing your premises is one of the biggest decisions you will make when starting up. Deborah Wyatt from Business Link provides pointers on how to select the right site for your business.
(27 October 2006 15:03:00)
Property investment firm Cedar Capital Partners has acquired the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Prague for an undisclosed sum.
(27 October 2006 14:57:00)
Men’s lifestyle magazine Maxim is branching out into the food business and is planning to lend its name to a chain of steakhouses in the USA.
(27 October 2006 14:55:00)
An Edinburgh University has joined forces with a Glasgow counterpart in an effort to keep hospitality and tourism graduates in Scotland.
(27 October 2006 12:50:00)
Pub management firm County Estate Management has said it is interested in buying some of the 158 pubs to be put on the market by brewer and pub operator Greene King.
(27 October 2006 12:03:00)
A disabled man has won £3,000 damages in a landmark legal case against a Scottish hotel for failing to provide adequate disabled access.
(27 October 2006 9:36:00)
Scandinavian airline SAS AB has announced today it is to sell its stake in the Rezidor hotel chain.
(27 October 2006 9:21:00)
Recruitment agencies have criticised the decision by competitor Robert Walters to ban any potentially discriminatory age-related words in its job ads.
(27 October 2006 8:30:00)
Hilton is to develop its first hotel in Liverpool, a new full service property in the £900m-Liverpool One retail development.
(27 October 2006 8:00:00)
Compass Group has appointed Jason Leek as managing director of its newly formed fine-dining division.
(27 October 2006 0:00:00)
The industry can help to tackle climate change and show environmental leadership with energy efficiency. Ian Pearson, climate change and environment minister, explains how
(26 October 2006 16:06:00)
An opportunity has arisen to buy an historic country house hotel in East Sussex for £4m by share transfer.
(26 October 2006 15:21:00)
The acclaimed Roasted Pepper restaurant and bar in rural North Yorkshire has been put on the market through the Leeds office of Christie + Co.
(26 October 2006 15:17:00)
The chance to buy a popular, well-established city centre bar/restaurant in Glasgow has come to the market.
(26 October 2006 15:11:00)
Human resources (HR) is shaking off its "soft and fluffy" image within the hospitality sector to earn the respect of line managers, exclusive research has revealed.
(26 October 2006 14:11:00)
Hospitality and tourism operators in London and Kent will receive a £115m boost when the Tour de France starts in the UK for the first time in July 2007, Transport for London (TfL) has predicted.
(26 October 2006 13:37:00)
Rossmark Hotel Group has made its maiden purchase with the acquisition of the prominent Bewleys hotel in Glasgow’s Bath Street for well in excess of £10m.
(26 October 2006 12:56:00)
Dave and Dionne Morgan, who run the Masons Arms pub in Bodmin, Cornwall, have bought the neighbouring Casi Casa hotel.
(26 October 2006 12:53:00)
The Bush Inn, a 200-year old food-led freehouse in Pembrokeshire, has changed hands.
(26 October 2006 12:51:00)
A London couple who own a Chinese medicine centre in Ipswich have bought the Cavendish House hotel in the Norfolk holiday resort of Great Yarmouth.
(26 October 2006 12:48:00)
Scottish and Newcastle Pub Enterprises has sold the Wayside Bar in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, to Jaguar Scotland Estates, which owns and operates a number of bars in and around Glasgow.
(26 October 2006 12:45:00)
The Seafield hotel in Campbeltown, Argyll, has been sold to Doug and Saskia Archer from County Durham.
(26 October 2006 12:41:00)
George Houghton from Gateshead has bought the Mayfair Guest House in the holiday resort of Whitley Bay on the Northumbrian coast.
(26 October 2006 12:38:00)
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