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  • IHIF: Worldhotels expands portfolio of branded hotels

    Worldhotels, a number one global group for independent upscale hotels, is growing its branded soft franchise solution because the ideal alternative to conventional franchising.

    The offer is terribly competitive, as costs to owners are based purely on brand performance in total net room revenue delivery.

    Since introducing the hot business model in 2011, Worldhotels has already branded 15 hotels and plans to feature another 20 by 2014.

    Ingo Guerges, vice chairman global hotel development at Worldhotels explained why the hot model was created:

    He said: “Hotels kept asking us for a better level of partnership – without the high operational interference of traditional upscale franchises.

    “So we prepare an answer that follows our motto of ‘If you own a hotel, it will feel such as you own a hotel.’”

    Worldhotels’ soft franchise solution focuses purely at the commercial side of the business, to generate and capture opportunities for room revenue growth from all segments and all distribution channels.

    The model doesn’t require any hardware standards, as Robert van der Graaf, Worldhotels’ newly appointed regional vp full licence Europe, Middle East and Africa, illustrates.

    “We’ve always said that standards don’t must mean standardisation,” he stated.

    “Our role is just to ensure the logo and supporting systems deliver the very best results for our hotels, without interfering inside the actual delivery of an authentic upscale hotel experience.”

    The model is built on over 40 years of successes of Worldhotels’ affiliation model and makes a speciality of three areas – to begin with full commercial support to maximize the hotel’s exposure under an international brand, secondly increase hotel market share through total brand performance, system delivery and at last distribution cost control to ultimately achieve a really healthy return on investment for hotel owners.

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  • News: London Marriott Hotel County Hall announces partnership with The Prince¹s Trust

    The 5* London Marriott Hotel County Hall today announces growth of its partnershipwith leading youth charity The Prince’s Trust, providing training and training opportunities for teenagers keen to develop a career within the hospitality industry.

    2012 saw youth unemployment reach a record high, over 1.2m inside the UK. The Prince’s Trust and Marriott hotels has been working together nationally, to offer opportunities for disadvantaged youngsters and the London Marriott Hotel County Hall hotel has recently taken on two employees from The Prince’s Trust Fairbridge programme.

    Located within the heart of Westminster the London Marriott Hotel County Hall has worked with The Prince’s Trust and its Fairbridge programme since 2011, supporting the ‘Employ Me’ course which offers disadvantaged youngsters the chance to realize an insight into the area of labor. The course concentrates on key employability skills for children who would not have access to education, employment or training with work experience opportunities in quite a number hospitality roles including front of house, housekeeping and food and beverage.

    The London Marriott Hotel County Hall ‘Housekeeping Challenge’ is a piece experience activity, enabling teens to place hospitality theory into practice. The hotel’s Executive Housekeeper Vince Castronovo briefs students at the features, facilities and steps all for preparing a room fit to the 5* standard for guests. The adolescents then give you the chance to go back a ‘distressed’ room back to its perfect state. Their efforts are filmed and evaluated by the manager Housekeeper before the gang is then offered the opportunity to undertake five hours of supervised work experience on the hotel in a department in their choice with a purpose to then securing a freelance of employment to further develop their careers. So far the London Marriott Hotel County Hall has held threeHousekeeping Challenges offering career, support and coaching to twenty youngsters with ambitions to double this support in 2013.

    Manuel da Costa and Jonathan Zepeda are two teens who’ve taken part within the ‘Employ Me’ programme on the London Marriott Hotel County Hall.

    Sixteen-year-old Manuel da Costa from Waterloo began with the Fairbridge Programme by joining the math and English courses. Manuel then joined the London Marriott HotelCounty Hall as component to the ‘Employ Me’ course working with a team of Marriott chefs to benefit more about careers inside the culinary and hospitality industries. Following the course Manuel now works part-time within the hotel’s kitchen under the guidance of Executive Chef Gareth Bowen whilst continuing his studies and has ambitions to 1 day open his own restaurant.

    Seventeen-year-old Jonathan Zepeda from Vauxhall is now employed on the hotel as a member of the Housekeeping team. Learning the best way to work as a team in addition to the most important elements of purchaser service and adhering to the hotels’ strict, 5* standards have enabled Jonathan to develop his self-confidence. He now has ambitions to develop his career to Housekeeping Supervisor and sooner or later work as a manager.

    Commenting at the partnership, Theresa Maw General Manager for the London Marriott Hotel County Hall said, “It is really inspiring to look youngsters realise their career ambitions with the guidance and support of both the team on the hotel and on the Prince’s Trust. As a Marriott hotel we’re committed to ‘give something back’ and dealing directly with the local people to support and develop the potential for those keen to develop a career within the hospitality industry.”

    Alex Dimsdale, Director of Human Resources for the London Marriott Hotel County Hall added: “We have partnered with The Prince’s Trust since 2011 and feature been overwhelmed with the passion, commitment and professionalism of the scholars that we’ve got worked with. The Housekeeping Challenge have been developed specifically to practically realise this commitment and we glance forward to developing opportunities foreven more students in 2013.”

    Dermot Finch, The Prince’s Trust Regional Director for the South added: “We are hugely grateful to the team on the London Marriott Hotel County Hall for the support and opportunities they’ve provided our teens.Working with an organization that has any such strong reputation means our kids have a chance to forge the beginning of a promising career with an industry leader.  We glance forward to growing and developing this chance toeven more students in 2013 and beyond.”

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  • News: Free currywurst on airberlin flights to the ITB

    All exhibition visitors travelling with airberlin to this year’s International Tourism Exchange (ITB) within the German capital have reason to celebrate: airberlin would be serving the well-liked curried sausage also known as Currywurst as a free snack on all domestic German flights to Berlin after 10:00 am from 5th to 8th March. Back in 2012, airberlin served around 20,000 portions of the delicious sausage by the emblem Sansibar for free on German domestic flights heading for the ITB.

    However, flight guests who’re not travelling to the ITB will after all even be ready to enjoy some Currywurst. airberlin remains to be the only real airline in Germany which offers guests in Economy Class the chance to buy hot meals without the necessity to pre-order in addition to offering free snacks and drinks. a spread of various Sansibar gourmet meals is obtainable on board all airberlin short and medium-haul flights of 90 minutes or longer. An excellent larger choice of Sansibar gourmet menus is additionally pre-ordered online at airberlin.com, in the course of the airberlin Service Center or via a travel agent for brief and medium-haul flights of 60 minutes or longer. Along with Currywurst and specialities from world wide, a range of vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan and lactose-free gourmet meals is obtainable.

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  • TCA launches Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau

    The Authority has launched a brand new force to drive its business events ambitions forward because it looks for the emirate to be ranked by the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) as among the many world’s top 50 association meetings destinations in five years.

    Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau – a brand new dedicated, one-stop-support-shop inside the Authority – will assist the expansion of exhibitions and conferences in the emirate by forging closer links with the industry and providing financial and non-financial support.

    The bureau will provide a number of services to the industry including bid presentation support, delegate generation campaigns, local stakeholder co-ordination and data, on-site destination advice, government support co-ordination and marketing assistance.

  • New hotel manager appointments at Madinat Jumeirah

    Azar Saliba have been appointed Hotel Manager of Jumeirah’s Al Qasr and Dar Al Masyaf hotels. The Lebanese national has over 18 years of expertise inside the hospitality industry, and seven years with the Jumeirah Group inside the UAE. Previous to this appointment he worked as hotel manager for Mina A’Salam, where his passion for facing guests and co-workers was quickly recognised. Saliba takes time to forge relationships with clients and improve customer satisfaction, in addition developing the commitment of team members to the delivery of “Stay Different” experiences through the Arabian resort. He’s one of many youngest hotel managers in the group today.

    Gisele Clark have been appointed Hotel Manager of Mina A’Salam. Before joining the Jumeirah Group in 2010, she worked for well-known groups comparable to Firmdale Hotels and Thistle Hotels in London, The Swiss Grand Hotel in Australia, and Marriott. Clark brings along with her an effective 22 years of expertise spanning 8 countries. Over the last 3 years as General Manager – Operations Support, she provided key support to Jumeirah’s properties within the Maldives, Azerbaijan, and Istanbul during their pre-opening phase, in addition to to new openings worldwide. In her role as interim General Manager for Jumeirah Maldives during 2012, Clark inspired teams to deliver Jumeirah’s hallmarks, and developed culturally connected experiences that gave back to the local people.

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