Hospitality news


Hilton unveils spa details at Burton ‘football hotel’


Hilton has announced details of the health club and spa concepts that will be on off er at its two hotels at St George’s Park, a new national football centre near Burton-on- Trent. T e complex is being built by the Football Association (FA) and will feature Hilton and Hampton by Hilton-branded properties, which will share the health club and spa at St George’s Park. Spa facilities at the hotels include four


treatment rooms off ering services using Comfort Zone products. Treatment spaces will use mood lighting and music to create a “sensory environment”.


First London hotel for citizenM


Netherlands-based hotel oper- ator citizenM has launched its fi rst property in London – in time for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. T e 192-bedroom hotel is in


Bankside, an area located near sites such as the Globe the- atre and the Tate Modern art attraction, and is designed to cater for “modern tourists”. citizenM worked alongside


Dutch architects Concrete on the design of the hotel, which includes an open-plan lobby. Kesselskramer, Vitra and Swisscom Hospitality Services also partnered with citizenM on the project. Facilities include canteenM, a self-serve eat-


citizenM has worked with architects Concrete on the new London hotel


ery designed to feel like a home kitchen and allows guests to select food before using one of four iMacs in the hotel’s ‘working space’ The group opened its first property in Amsterdam four years ago, and has already


expanded to the UK with a hotel in Glasgow. Two more citizenM-branded properties are due to open in London over the coming year. citizenM chief operating offi cer Michael


Levie said: “T is city is one of the main stages of the hospitality world but we’re ready.” Details: http://lei.sr?a=K5e2p


Green light for ‘fast-built’ London hotel Accor’s Académie now operates in 72 countries


Accor enters UK market with training academy


France-based hospitality giant Accor is to expand its Accor Académie training net- work by announcing the launch of the service in the UK market. Accor has opened its new employee


training campus in London and also announced a new apprenticeship scheme, an ‘into-work’ programme and a university placement scheme as part of an investment into the group’s HR programme and signif- icant job creation in the sector. Accor Académie now operates in 72


countries. First launched in 1985, the Académie delivers more than 435,000 days of training a year and invests around €45m (£36m) per annum in training. In 2011, more than 145,000 group


employees were trained through modules adapted to the specifi c local challenges of each country and covering more than 100 hotel industry jobs. Accor’s Sophie Flak said: “Identifying,


developing and retaining talented people is a crucial guarantee for Accor’s strategy of conquest. With 40,000 new rooms every year, our mission is to train our employees on the ground, where they work.” Read more: http://lei.sr?a=F6M8L


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A new £15m Park Plaza hotel on London’s Western Avenue, which is to use a “fast-built” system where most of its ele- ments are built off -site, has been given the green light. Capita Symonds’ ESA


design practice is behind the proposals on behalf of the PPHE Hotel Group, which will see the 160-bedroom hotel constructed opposite Park Royal tube station. Many of the components


– such as ground fl oor facili- ties and completed bedrooms – will be stacked together to form the completed building as part of the modular concept. ESA’s Marek Sroka said: “The flexible


Most of the new London hotel’s components will be constructed off -site


modular building system and unique façade design the team has developed has allowed us


a good degree of freedom and fl exibility as it is the construction process that we have stan- dardised, not the design.” Details: http://lei.sr?a=y5k3Z


Firmdale Hotels relaunches Dorset Square Hotel


Firmdale Hotels has announced the launch of the new-look Dorset Square Hotel in central London, following the completion of an exten- sive refurbishment programme. Husband and wife team Kit and Tim Kemp originally purchased the boutique hotel during


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the 1980s and have now reacquired it for the Firmdale portfolio, 10 years aſt er it was sold. Dorset Square Hotel features 38 bedrooms,


as well as T e Potting Shed bar and restaurant. It joins Firmdale’s six other London hotels. Details: http://lei.sr?a=v1u4S


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