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Premier Inn signs £125m airport deal
Four new hotels to open at three major London airports as part of joint venture
By Pete Hayman
Budget chain Premier Inn has
unveiled plans for the develop-
ment of four new hotels at
three London airports as part
of a £125m joint venture with
Arora Family Trust.
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The four sites will add 1,570
bedrooms to the Whitbread- sTudIo
owned company's portfolio as
part of a 'developer turn-key' There will be two new Premier Inns at Heathrow Airport
deal with the trust, backed by
hotelier Surinder Arora. Premier Inn already operates our presence at airports. The
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Two of the hotels will be hotels at 14 airports across the success of the budget airlines
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situated at Heathrow Airport, UK and Ireland, and expects shows there is an increasing
with 5,400-room and 4,240- the four new properties to be demand for low-cost travel, and
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room sites set for Terminals 5 opened on a phased basis from that includes accommodation."
and 4 respectively. Meanwhile, autumn 2011 onwards. Surinder Arora added: "We
a 300-room hotel will be built Mark Anderson, commercial are delighted to have reached
With more than 30 years’
at Stansted and a 630-room and property director at this landmark agreement with
experience, leisure media
hotel is set to become the first Whitbread, said: "As air travel Premier Inn, which very much
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terminal-based budget hotel at returns to long-term growth, complements our existing Arora
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Firmdale reveals plans for £60m London hotel
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By Luke Tuchscherer
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A new £60m luxury hotel is to be built on a former bomb site in
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London as part of an agreement that will also include a 50,000sq
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Ham Yard – near Shaftesbury Avenue – was bombed during
World War II and has remained derelict since. It was bought at
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auction for £30m by Tim and Kit Kemp, the husband and wife team
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who are behind Firmdale hotel group.
Firmdale already has six London hotels in its portfolio, including
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Firmdale is planning to create properties in Covent Garden and Knightsbridge, but the Kemps are
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a new 100-room flagship hotel aiming to make the new 100-room hotel its flagship site.
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OFT against Scottish plans for minimum alcohol price
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Speaking at the Regulatory Policy Institute, companies to compete, innovate and cut costs
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Oxford, Office of Fair Trading chief executive There is also a political risk that weakening
John Fingleton said that "fixing a minimum competition can be seen as an attractive
price for a product to try to curb consumption short-term option where the alternatives might
has a number of undesirable effects." be to introduce a tax or implement more
Contact Tim Nash
Ahead of plans by the Scottish government targeted regulation."
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to introduce a minimum price for a unit of Elsewhere, licensee body Justice for Licensees
alcohol this autumn, Fingleton said: "The is to urge a government rethink about the
timnash@leisuremedia.com
scheme would reduce the incentives of reintroduction of the 17.5 per cent VAT rate.
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