Industry News

Industry Update Spring 2009

• Apex Waterloo Place Hotel, London open in March with 187 bedrooms
• Ardencote Manor Hotel, Warwickshire completes a 12 year expansion project
• Bermondsey Square Hotel, London open in April with 79 bedrooms
• Cafe Royal central London is closed for conversion into a 160 bedroom deluxe hotel
• Campanile Hotels announce plans for UK expansion and refurbishments
• CCT Venues are doubling the capacity of the Canary Wharf venue
• City Inn Leeds to open Summer 2009 with 333 bedrooms and 20 meeting rooms
• Chester Zoo have announced plans for expansion to include a 90 bedroom hotel
• Copthorne Sheffield open in January with 158 bedrooms
• Ellington Hotel Leeds: Luxury boutique hotel located in the financial district now open
• Folio Hotels: Thirteen hotels rescued from administration by bespoke hotels and the remaining properties bought by board of directors
• Hampshire Rose Bowl: Work to begin early in 2009 for expansion of criekct ground, conference centre and development of a 4* deluxe hotel onsite
• Hallam Conference Centre open in January in central London
• Hilton Reading: Opening in Spring 2009 with 210 bedrooms and 8 conference and meeting spaces
• Holiday Inn London Kensington relaunches as the Crowne Plaza Kensington in April following extensive refurbishment
• Holiday Inn Stevenage open in January with 140 bedrooms
• Hotel De La Bere Cheltenham closed 2nd January for total refurbishment
• Hotel Du Vin receive planning approval for £10m development and rebranding of St Andrews Golf Hotel near Fife
• Jurys Doyle Group are rebranding as the Doyle Collection at the end of January
• Jurys Inn Glasgow SECC: New 230 bedroom hotel to open in 2010
• Jurys Inn Newcastle Gateshead: New 200 bedroom hotel to open in 2010
• Jurys Inn Sheffield open in January with 259 bedrooms
• Jurys Inn Watford open in March with 216 bedrooms
• Keele Hall are to open Staffordhire's largest banqueting suite in March
• Merchant Inns: New luxury budget inns group in the Thames Valley
• Novotel London West announce extensive refurbishment plans
• Premier Inn announce plans for first fully self check-in hotel in Sheffield
• Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street, central London opens in January following a £41m redevelopment including 174 bedrooms, seven new conference rooms and the new Bloomsbury Street Bar & Restaurant
• Ramada Encore Birmingham NEC open in February with 166 bedrooms
• Sapphire: New meeting and training facility open in the West Midlands
• Sir Christopher Wrens House Hotel & Spa, Windsor is to open a new conference centre
• The Vale Hotel Cardiff opens new 40 acre sporting site
• Twickenham Marriott open in February with 156 bedrooms
• Village Farnborough open in March with 123 bedrooms
• Village Hotel Leeds now open with 115 bedrooms, located just off the M62