New hotel openings from Melia Hotels International
Here’s a roundup of the hotels which the Melia group opened in 2016 and hotels which are scheduled to open in 2017. The group has new 50 properties which will open across the world between 2017 and 2020, so there are lots to look out for in the future.
2016 openings
GRAN MELIA Palacio de los Duques (Madrid) GRAN MELIA Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) ME Miami MELIA Makassar (Indonesia) MELIA Yangon (Myanmar) MELIA Braco Village (Jamaica) MELIA Doha (Qatar) MELIA Danang (Vietnam) INNSIDE New York Nomad INNSIDE Aachen INNSIDE Leipzig INNSIDE Frankfurt Ostend SOL House Taghazhout (Morocco) SOL Beach House Phu Quoc (Vietnam) SOL Beach House Bali Benoa SOL Costa Atlantis (Tenerife)
–Dalata Hotel Group operate 41 hotels in Ireland the UK. The largest hotel chain in Ireland with 31 hotels including 18 in Dublin – operating under the brand of Clayton, Maldron & Partner hotels.
–Newest hotel – Clayton Hotel Burlington Road, formerly Hilton Double Tree, joined our network on 22nd November, add an additional 502 bedrooms and extensive meetings and events facilities for over 1000-pax.
–New opening Announcements include Maldron Hotels opening in Cork City, Belfast City Centre, 5th property in Dublin and a new Maldron Hotel to open in Newcastle (UK) all in 2018.
–Clayton Hotel Chiswick unveils new Conference & Meeting space for up to 400 pa, following £21M investment in West London, ideal for meetings & conferences, within 15 minutes of Heathrow and central London. All meeting rooms including the Ballroom boasts natural daylight for 400pax. Hotel also offers car parking space for100 cars.
–Clayton Hotel Leopardstown Dublin & Clayton Hotels are pleased to announce the complete refurbishment of all meetings and event space with state of the art equipment, as well as fantastic catering and food options. A successful event is not just a venue, it’s about delivering on overall package that includes unrivalled service and facilities.
Venues – Emirates Old Trafford has four conference and events venue’s situated within the Ground.
o The Point which has a sit-down dinner capacity for up to 1,000 guests – or 850 with a dance floor. Conference and exhibition capacity is also 1,200. The space is sub-divisible into three areas, ideal for large events that need separate rooms or smaller functions and can be easily combined with our Pavilion via the bridge link or for larger events that need extra break-out space.
oThe Pavilion combines the finest traditions of English cricket with modern, high end hospitality and is able to accommodate up to 700 guests across the eight suites and nine executive boxes we have to offer. With a footbridge linking The Point to the Pavilion, delegates have easy access to breakout rooms and extra syndicate spaces, making the venue unique. The suites are completely flexible, and can be adapted to your every need.
oThe AJ Bell Players & Media Centre is a modern and high end facility that isn’t just for cricketers and journalists. It boasts a wide variety of flexible space and is perfect for corporate workshops, training, away days, small meetings and events and its Press Gallery offers magnificent, sweeping views of the pitch.
oThe Trafford Cricket Centre is not just for batting and bowling. Once we drop the nets and wheel away the bowling machines, the Centre turns into a dynamic and versatile event space This large and open space is able to accommodate up to 1500 delegates and its functional space means it has the flexibility to cover a wide range of events.
•Hilton Garden Inn
The crowning glory of Emirates Old Trafford’s redevelopment will be completed in the summer of 2017 when a brand new 150-bedroom four star Hilton Garden Inn opens its doors at the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club.
There will be five floors and 85 rooms are overlooking the world famous cricket pitch which can also be converted to hospitality boxes on match days. There will also be a bar, restaurant, fitness centre and a branded coffee shop.
•Events
Emirates Old Trafford has hosted many events over the years for major clients such as Google and O2 plus special events such as The X Factor and The Voice and has hosted many a famous superstar including Simon Cowell, The Script, Cheryl Cole, Jimmy Carr, the entire MCFC Squad and Sir Alex Ferguson. The venue also hosted world-stars Rihanna and Beyoncé who held concerts within a week of each other with 80,000 visitors in attendance over both nights.
•Fun Facts
There have been four firework displays in the last 6 years here at the venue.
A total of around 1800 events have been held in The Point since it opened.
There have been two world record attempts held at The Point.
£25m plans unveiled for Winter Gardens Conference Centre
Full plans to build a conference and exhibition centre as part of the Winter Gardens complex have been revealed and, if realised, could put Blackpool back in the conference premier league.
The £25m project has been outlined by developers and the planned new conference and the planned conference centre will increase the capacity of the Winter Gardens, allowing it to host over 7,000 delegates. Construction could start in winter 2017 if multi-million pound funding bids to the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership and the Coastal Communities fund are successful.
A planning application submitted 1st December by architects Bisset Adams finally revealed the scale of the development, including how the new centre will link up with the existing complex and how the style of the new construction will complement the heritage of the current buildings.
With £1.8million spent over the last few months, the ICC has seen refreshes on halls 4, 9 and 10 along with four of its executive meeting rooms. One of the most noticeable improvements has been the addition of large format digital screens throughout the public mall and portable screens. There has also been investment in upgrading the Wi-Fi along with modernisation of the lighting throughout the Mall, registration and foyer areas. The £10m refurbishment programme has already provided a facelift to the venue’s largest flat-floored space, the 3,000m² Hall 3, Registration Area and Mall in 2015.
The ICC values customer feedback and knows that listening to its clients and understanding their needs is crucial in order to deliver exceptional service.
As such, the ICC has conducted nearly 500 detailed monthly customer feedback surveys since May 2013 via an independent third-party research agency and consistently receives an average score of 9/10; so far this year 98% of those surveyed have said they would bring another event to the ICC. The ICC also scores 4.5/5 on TripAdvisor® visitor reviews, which led to the venue receiving the TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence, awarded to hospitality businesses that continually delivered a high quality customer experience.
Construction starts in February 2017 at the International Convention Centre at Celtic Manor Resort near Newport. The £100m convention centre is due to start the construction phase around the 9th February and last approximately 2.5 years. The chief executive of Celtic Manor Ian Edwards said the new convention centre is set to help Wales compete in the international conference business of which he estimates Wales currently secures just 1.5% of the marketplace.
Consisting of a 4,000 seater ballroom, this will be the largest of only 3 pillar free ballrooms in Europe and the venue will be able to cater for 5,000 delegates in total. In addition to the meeting space the venue will have an additional 700 underground car parking spaces.
Once the venue is open it is expected to bring 100,000 bedroom nights and £70million economic benefit to the local area every year
The Refinery Spinningfields, an all-day Bar and Restaurant in the new XYZ Building in Spinningfields opened on Monday (28th November) and is part of the Drake and Morgan Portfolio. The venue offers corporate venue hire and its location in the centre of Manchester’s business district supports this offering. The venue is ideal for mid-sized corporate events but if you do have a large event they will look at offering hire of the entire venue. The venue also has an outdoor terrace, an ideal backdrop for evening events in this fashionable drinking and dining district!
Two more St Regis hotels are also coming on stream: scheduled for next year is the 136-room St Regis Dubai Al Habtoor Polo Resort & Club, which will feature a state-of-the-art polo academy with four polo fields, show jumping and dressage arenas, while the following year St Regis Dubai – The Palm (picture featured) will boast the world’s highest infinity pool located on the 50th floor.
Madinat Jumeirah: a new hotel, the Jumeirah al Nasim, the sea breeze, is opening at the end of this year with 430 rooms.
Al Habtoor City is Dubai’s first integrated resort. Situated on the new Dubai Water Canal, it will offer three new hotels, a shopping boulevard and a spectacular water-themed show by Dragone, the first permanent water-based production set in a purpose-built theatre. The St Regis Dubai offers bespoke luxery across 234 rooms while the W Dubai has 356 rooms.
The Langham, Palm Jumeirah, will open at the end of this year, the group’s first Middle Eastern Resort.
Set on the Pearl Jumeirah waterfront, the Nikki Beach Resort & Spa Dubai opens this year offering 117 rooms and suites as well as 15 ultra-deluxe villas.
Dukes is opening its first property outside the UK with 273-room Dukes Oceana Dubai, set on the trunk of The Palm Jumeirah.
Okura Nikko Hotels came to see us recently and the group has more than 70 properties globally (The Netherlands, Germany, US, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Guam, Palau). Here are a few key facts:
•All Okura Hotels is synonymous with its signature Japanese restaurant – Yamazato for fine traditional Japanese cuisine & Sazanka for teppanyaki
•The Yamazato Restaurant at Hotel Okura Amsterdam is the first traditional Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is awarded with a Michelin star
•Hotel Okura Tokyo was built in response to growing expectations in political and business circles for a world-class hotel in Tokyo to symbolise the reconstruction process and prosperity of post-war Japan.
•The main building of Hotel Okura Tokyo is currently undergoing refurbishment – project “This is Okura” is due for completion by Spring 2019, in time for the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in 2020. The South Wing of Hotel Okura Tokyo is operating as normal and is not disrupted by the “This is Okura” project.
