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Marketing Manchester promoting conference industry
Marketing Manchester has launched a campaign to help recovery of the tourism, hospitality, leisure and cultural industries and to rebuild confidence in Greater Manchester as a place to visit and work.
The campaign is a response to the decimation of the tourism, hospitality, leisure and cultural industries by COVID-19.
From an events and conference viewpoint– ‘Space to Meet and Space to Learn’ – will launch in the autumn, encouraging confidence and safety within the meetings and conference industry.
Sheona Southern, managing director at Marketing Manchester, said: "Our campaign aims to reinstall confidence in Greater Manchester's workers, business owners, residents, students and visitors, inspiring them to explore our villages, towns, cities and countryside, and to do so safely.”
“We know that the success of Greater Manchester as a place to visit, work, live and study is due to how seamlessly these groups overlap and interact with each other so our job as the organisation that promotes the destination across these strands, is to find a way to build each group back up and return to being the thriving city-region that proudly draws business and visitors from across the globe."
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Trafford Hall Hotel joins Best Western
Trafford Hall Hotel in Manchester is the latest hotel to join the Best Western Signature Collection.
Trafford Hall Hotel is due to complete a major renovation in mid-July and an AA four-star rating will follow.
New safety measures being introduced include pre-check-in technology. Guests will also have access to a smart phone in each room to order room service, request housekeeping, and to communicate safely with staff.
Trafford Hall Hotel, BW Signature Collection by Best Western, to give it its full name, has 33 bedrooms, a new Signature Steakhouse restaurant and 1887 Sports Bar & Café
The main meeting and events suite - Grand Hall - will accommodate up to 90 delegates theatre-style. The smaller Trafford Suite will seat up to up to 40 people.
Trafford Hall Hotel, BW Signature Collection by Best Western is located just off junction 7 of the M60. It is a stone’s throw from Old Trafford Football Stadium, less than 50 metres from a Metrolink station and nine miles from Manchester International Airport.
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Revised opening dates for new London Hotels
London hotels are now starting to reopen. However, many of this year’s major new hotel openings have been delayed as a direct result of the Covid 19 pandemic. These openings have now been revised:
Nobu Hotel Portman Square in Marylebone, which was due to open in July is now scheduled to open in November 2020. The hotel will feature 249 bedrooms and suites, a Nobu restaurant, a ballroom and numerous meeting and events spaces.
Edwardian Hotels’ new hotel The Londoner has also rescheduled its opening on Leicester Square from June to late 2020.
The Londoner will be a 350-bedroom hotel dubbed the capital’s first “iceberg hotel” — with more space underground than above. It will feature six concept restaurants, two private cinemas plus a spa.
Pan Pacific London was due to open this autumn. Its opening date will now be early 2021. Pan Pacific London marks the brand’s first property in Europe. It will be London’s new landmark tower just across from Liverpool Street Station. Pan Pacific London will have 237 bedrooms and will feature the largest ballroom in the capital’s Square Mile, accommodating up to 400 guests.
Choice Locations will keep you up to date with the latest hotel openings post-pandemic.
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New Hotel approved in Inverness
Planning permission has been granted to covert a former office block in Inverness into a 76-bedroom hotel.
Axcel Hospitality propose to convert a former four-storey office block in Church Street, Inverness, a building previously occupied by the Department of Work and Pensions.
The new hotel will also include a bar, restaurant and gym.
A proposed opening date and details of the hotel operator await publication.
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Coming to Leicester shortly
It’s all happening hotel-wise in Leicester.
Proposals to covert a former police station into a new hotel in Leicester are expected to be approved in the near future by Leicester City Council.
The police station dates back to the turn of the 19th century. It is located on the corner of Holden Street and Loughborough Road in the Belgrave area of the city.
Meanwhile, remaining in Leicester, the go-ahead has been recommended for a new hotel in Melton Road in Leicester.
The new five-storey hotel is planned on the site of the vegetarian restaurant ‘Indigo’. The new hotel will include a restaurant and banqueting facilities as well as 125 bedrooms.
A decision from Leicester City Council is expected later this month.
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New Hotel planned at Banana Warehouse
A major redevelopment in York has been recommended for approval at a meeting to be held later this week.
The redevelopment would see the existing Banana Warehouse site partially demolished and replaced with a new hotel building of up to five storeys with 168 bedrooms.
The plans also include a restaurant and bar plus landscaping. The existing Banana Warehouse façade would be retained. The Banana Warehouse building dates back to the early 20th century.
A previously application for a hotel on the site was withdrawn in 2019 after concerns were raised over its design.