Hotel & Venue News

Cameron House on the banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland has unveiled the second phase of its ongoing £4million refurbishment.

Cameron House, a 136-bedroom hotel, completed its initial refurbishment phase last year. This focused on revamping the food and beverage offering along with upgrading the hotel’s other public spaces.

Phase two will include newly redesigned bedrooms plus a new loch-side terrace with an alfresco bar and events space for 60 people, overlooking the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.

The work is due for completion by May 2017.

Cameron House is a five-star resort hotel with seven flexible meeting rooms, all with natural daylight and loch views. The hotel sits in over 400 acres of grounds which are available for team building activities.

Cameron House is 25 minutes from Glasgow International Airport and 30 minutes from Glasgow city centre.

Details: http://www.cameronhouse.co.uk/

Details: Published: 25 January 2017; Hits: 568

Hilton Hotels have announced the launch of their 14th hotel brand. It will be a collection of independent-style hotels called ‘Tapestry’.

With their Tapestry Collection, Hilton is aiming to attract guests seeking a reliable independent hotel that is backed by the Hilton name and part of the HHonors programme.

Hilton currently has 35 hotel in the process of joining the Tapestry Collection. They are all in the United States.

The first hotel is expected to join the Tapestry Collection by the third quarter of this year.

The company has set a goal of 50 hotels by 2020, starting in the Americas and eventually going global.

Details: http://news.hiltonworldwide.com/index.cfm/newsroom/category/topic/704/n/701

Details: Published: 25 January 2017; Hits: 520

Plans submitted last summer to build a new 96-bedroom hotel on Blackpool's Golden Mile have been approved.

The new Sands Hotel will feature penthouse suites overlooking the promenade and the Irish Sea.

The Sands Hotel will be built on the site of the former Palatine Hotel which together with other buildings on the site, including Central Station, were demolished in the 1970s during a period of large-scale redevelopment in Blackpool.

The project is the brainchild of businessman Peter Swann, who owns the company that operates Sands Entertainment Venue in the resort and who is also chairman of League One side Scunthorpe United FC.

Work is expected to begin on the hotel by summer 2017.

Details: www.the-sands-blackpool.co.uk

Details: Published: 24 January 2017; Hits: 513

Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) has just opened its new conference and events facility.

The facilities, located in the university’s Hamish Wood building, include a state-of-the-art conference hall, a glass entrance pavilion plus a suite of seminar rooms and break-out spaces.

The conference hall is a flexible space with retractable theatre-style seating. It can accommodate up to 500 people in either a tiered lecture theatre layout or in a large open space for a more informal gathering such as a private dinner. The glass ceiling floods the room with natural daylight.

The conference hall is supported by ten new breakout rooms including the centre’s lantern space – a striking circular glass meeting room to accommodate up to 70 delegates.

The new facility is also home to three new garden and courtyard spaces.

The new conference facility will complement the university’s existing Saltire Centre and lecture rooms. Its opening marks the completion of a two-year £32million Heart of the Campus project undertaken by Glasgow Caledonian University.

Glasgow Caledonian University is a ‘single-site’ campus is located in Cowcaddens Road in the centre of Glasgow, close to the M8 motorway with easy access to both Edinburgh and Glasgow airports. Glasgow Caledonian University is within easy walking distance of Glasgow Queen Street and Glasgow Central stations.

Details: http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsroom/news/article/?id=230117

Details: Published: 24 January 2017; Hits: 518

Plans have been published to build a new £70million luxury, 306-bedroom hotel in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle after property developers released plans to change the use of an existing residential scheme.

The site overlooking Queen's Dock on Norfolk Street in Liverpool currently has planning consent for 253 apartments. A ‘change of use’ could see the site open as the Vincent Residence & Hotel.

The Vincent Residence & Hotel would be the third hotel in the group’s portfolio alongside the Times Hotel on Seel Street in Liverpool and the Vincent boutique hotel just up the coast in Southport.

The proposed development would also include 50 serviced apartments, a 10,000 sq-ft basement events space, a rooftop restaurant plus a lounge, a spa, a gym and an outdoor circuit training terrace on the roof.

If planning permission is granted, construction on-site could start in summer 2017.

Details: https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/northwest/70m-luxury-hotel-planned-for-baltic-triangle?utm_source=northwest_newsletter&utm_campaign=northwest_news_tracker&utm_medium=property_article