September 2014 - EDGE Venues

23rd September 2014

Budapest Voted Best Value For Money

Budapest, the city known as the “Pearl in the Danube”, keeps on winning awards and has just been voted number one by Tripadvisor as the city which offers best value for money, not just in Europe but worldwide.

The list showing some of the awards that Budapest achieved over the past 12 months puts it high on the agenda as a destination well worth considering for your next conference or event.

Number 1 – Best value for money city in the world / 2014 -Tripadvisor

Number 2 – Best city in the world / 2013 – Conde Nast Traveller

Number 6 – Most popular European travel destination / 2014 – Travel and Leisure

Number 11 – Friendliest cities in the world / 2014 – Conde Nast Traveller

Number 17 – Conference city of the world / 2013 – ICCA

The Intercontinental Budapest has also been awarded Hungary’s Leading Business Hotel 2014, a prestigious award presented by the World Travel Awards TM and voted for by senior professionals working within the travel and tourism industry.

19th September 2014

Intercontinental Westminster Becomes Conrad London St James

As of Monday 1st September 2014 The Intercontinental London Westminster became known as Conrad London St James. Owners of the property, Supreme Hotels, agreed to part company with IHG and went on to sign a franchise agreement with Hilton to rebrand as The Conrad.

The Conrad brand currently operates 23 hotels worldwide but hasn’t had a presence in London for seven years. The Chelsea Harbour Hotel once belonged to Conrad before it was taken over by The Wyndham Group in 2007, earlier this year it became the first in a new group of hotels called The Monogram Collection from Millennium and Copthorne.

Supreme Hotels are owned by The Splendid Hospitality Group who operate 13 hotels in the UK, they currently work with IHG, Hilton and Choice Hotels and have development plans for five further hotels.

12th September 2014

Topland Acquires Hallmark Hotels

As of mid July 2014 Topland acquired the Hallmark portfolio of eight hotels, Topland already consisted of 12 Menzies Hotels, six Thistle Hotels, the Hilton Brighton Metropole, the Hilton Glasgow and The Royal Crescent Hotel in Bath.

Menzies are now offering as standard bacon rolls on arrival, unlimited tea/coffee and water, afternoon cakes and free WiFi and hope to push this across to Hallmark as well.

Every single Menzies hotel now has an environmental accreditation for Green Tourism and they also now have 3 AA Rosettes across the group too.