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contents Contributors 1 Editor’s introduction 4 Industry overview 6 Hot Concepts 13 Starwood ‘1’ environmental hotel 13 NiteNite 15 Dakota 17 City Inn 19 Key Issues 21 The Environment 21 Benchmarking 25 Sale and Leaseback 29 REITS: an overview 32 REITS: challenge for hotels 36 Legislation: Tax 39 Legislation: Employment Law 43 Branding 45 Franchising 49 Human Resources: Recruitment 53 Human Resources: Remuneration 56 Mixed Use Developments 59 The Gambling Act and Hotels 62 2012: The Olympic Myth 65 2012: The Olympic Challenge 69 Technology 71 The Internet 75 World View 78 Overseas expansion 78 Round up of Overseas Market 81 Comment 88 Hilton 88 Travelodge 90
contributors Graeme Aymer is a freelance journalist with eight years’ experience covering such topics as technology, design, hospitality and genealogy. He has previously written for a range of publications including M&C Report, Hotel Report, Computer Arts, MacFormat and Your Family Tree. Phil Cain, a regular Hotel Report contributor, is a freelance journalist whose work appears in the Economist, FT, Guardian and Wall Street Journal. He is founding editor of Clear Profit the leading title for investors and investees aiming to deliver competitive financial returns while furthering social, environmental and political causes. Nicola Cottam has been a business journalist for 10 years with a background in food and drink retailing. She worked at William Reed Publishing for nine years – at The Grocer and latterly as features editor on Convenience Store magazine - before turning freelance 18 months ago. Since then she has broadened her sphere of expertise into food nutrition and the leisure and catering industries. Nicola regularly contributes features to a range of food and drink publications including The Grocer, Marketing and speciality food magazine Fine Food Digest. Bob Cotton OBE has been chief executive of the British Hospitality Association, since January 2000. Before his appointment, he spent a year as tourism adviser to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. A Contributors graduate of the University of Surrey, gaining a BSc in hotel and catering management, he joined Gardner Merchant (now Sodexho UK), working in various parts of the UK and abroad. At the time of his move to the DCMS, he was director of communications and strategic development, UK and abroad, for Sodexho UK. Katherine Doggrell started her career at the Financial Times after graduating from City University’s school of journalism, specialising in finance. She has a broad range of experience across journalism, working at a number of prestigious titles including Business 2.0, Time Out, Q, Mojo and on the launch of Future Publishing’s CreateOnline. In four years at Hotel Report, Katherine has developed an in-depth knowledge of the sector. Stuart Dredge is a technology journalist with eight years’ experience working on a variety of publications, including T3, Official Dreamcast Magazine, Cr@ateOnline and Mobile Choice. Most recently, he worked as an editor and analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, covering the mobile entertainment sector, including games, music and social networking/communities. He went freelance in July 2006, and now writes regularly for trade and consumer publications on consumer technology, mobile entertainment and Web 2.0 developments. He also writes weekly technology interviews for Tech Digest (www.techdigest.tv), and is the mobile games editor for Pocket Gamer (www.pocketgamer. co.uk). Recent freelance commissions include features for New Media Age, MusicAlly, T3 and work for Future Publishing’s contract publishing division, Future Plus. March 2007 Hotel Report Guide to UK Hotels l © William Reed Publishing 1
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2012: The Olympic myth Key Issues:
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Technology by Graeme Aymer Technolo
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