Aimbridge Hospitality EMEA

Mission completed! Last year we set out to finish top of the leaderboard for mystery shopper enquiries with BVA BDRC and we're delighted to announce we have achieved our goal!   We have been proactively working with our account manager and hotel teams to achieve this result, focusing on hosting regular best practice workshops and criteria overview sessions, providing 1-2-1 support calls, conducting monthly performance meetings, sharing group and individual reports and celebrating the success of our high achievers, as well hosting an in-person seminar with Louise Tawadrous from BVA BDRC which focused on mystery shopper and event planner feedback.   Our top ranking in the accreditations league table reflects our focus on providing excellent enquiry handling and customer satisfaction, and our commitment to leading the industry by setting high standards. Congratulations to everyone who helped us achieve this goal ✨

Congratulations to our team members who were recognised at the HSMAI Region Europe awards which were held last week at The Savoy✨   We're delighted that Elinor Dunn, Sales & Marketing Director at Hotel Indigo Manchester Victoria Station was awarded Sales Talent of the Year   And four team members were shortlisted for the same category: Leanne Bladen - Director of sales and marketing at The Eastside Rooms and Aloft Birmingham Eastside Luke Balcombe MCIM - Director of Sales and Marketing at Crowne Plaza Newcastle - Stephenson Quarter Aziza Yessi - Director of Sales at Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel Madeleine Hawley - Director of Sales and Marketing at Holiday Inn Manchester Airport UK and ibis budget Manchester Airport   Three team members were shortlisted for Marketing Professional of the Year: Sarah W. - Senior Marketing Executive at Aimbridge Hospitality EMEA Tanita Gill - Marketing Manager at The Eastside Rooms and Aloft Birmingham Eastside Tina Bricknell - Marketing Manager at The View Hotel Eastbourne   Stephanie Hughes, Cluster Revenue Manager for Holiday Inn Manchester Airport UK and ibis budget Manchester Airport was shortlisted as Revenue Optimization Professional of the Year   And finally, our digital marketing campaign for The Belsfield Hotel was also shortlisted!   Congratulations to everyone, we're so proud of your outstanding achievements 🥂 #HSMAI #Awards

News just in! We are delighted to announce that we have partnered with Accor to welcome six new properties owned by Danish real estate group PROARK to our portfolio.   The hotels, which have a total of 865 guestrooms between them, are located in Bedford, Cardiff, Harlow, Nottingham, Telford and Birmingham and have received extensive refurbishment work over recent years.   David Anderson, President at Aimbridge EMEA, said: “We’re looking forward to putting our wealth of experience and expertise into action, drawing on Aimbridge’s global scale and working closely with each property’s general manager and wider hotel team to help each property to flourish.”   Henrik Sköld-Johansson, Board Member at ProArk Group, said: “We are so pleased to welcome Aimbridge onboard the ProArk UK portfolio of hotels. We strongly believe that with Aimbridge’s well documented success of running hotels in the UK, we will together take these hotels to the next level”.   We are excited to welcome these new hotels and teams to Aimbridge and are looking forward to seeing what the future holds ✨ Aimbridge Hospitality #Hospitality #NewHotels #Accor

Did you spot our recent feature in Hotel Owner? Lorna Abercrombie, Vice President of Human Resources, takes a look at how the role of the General Manager has evolved and how, when supported and empowered, GMs hold the key to revenue success. https://lnkd.in/eiJhEazf #Aimbridge #Hospitality #GeneralManager Aimbridge Hospitality

As we welcome in the new year, we also welcome in four new General Managers across our UK and European portfolio!  Sandeep Kaushik as GM of London Twickenham Stadium Hotel, Jimmy Sarfraz has been named as GM of Marriot Ghent and Managing Director – Ghent, Claire McGinnis has been appointed as the new GM of Residence Inn Manchester Piccadilly and, Cliffton Borges has joined Mercure Perth as GM. Join us in welcoming our new wonderful GMs ✨ #Aimbridge #Hospitality #Leadership

Merry Christmas from all of us at Aimbridge🎄✨

Let’s celebrate ✨ Last week we awarded our talented team members who consistently demonstrated excellence in all aspects of their role. We were overwhelmed with wonderful nominations and are so proud of all of our winners. Please join us in congratulating them! Our Rising Stars were named as Miah Mcneil, Fraser Dawson, Charlie Drewery Davis and Andy McSherry Best Newcomer was awarded to Paul Frankland Our company value awards went to: Think Like a Guest, Act Like an Owner: Steve Dunford MIH Think We, Not Me: Jordan Taylor Become Better Every Day: Ben Wells Be Inclusive, Be Respectful, Be Curious: Jo Childs Our Innovation award went to Joe Evans ExCom gave special recognition to our Procurement Team – Tomas J., Megan Carlin and Stephanie Bryson Our Corporate Team Member of the Year was named as Gillian McKenzie And finally our Corporate Team Member of the Year Hotel Choice went to Kam Mann Congratulations all, these awards are so well deserved! #hospitality #awards #aimbridge Aimbridge Hospitality

Congratulations to all our learners who graduated from the first cohort of our Amplify leadership development programme on Tuesday.   The graduation event was the culmination of a six-month participative programme designed to elevate our senior leaders and concluded with a business change proposal to our ExCom team, an introduction to our Beyond Amplify post-programme experience and a celebratory dinner.    Since launching in May, 30% of our General Manager population have applied and will complete the programme by the end of 2025, reinforcing our commitment to retain and develop the best GMs that will inspire our future leaders. Thank you for all of your hard work! ✨

Congratulations to James Conaghan and his team at Novotel Leicester who recently won Large Hotel of the Year at the Leicester Tourism & Hospitality Awards 2024, we are so proud of all your hard work! ✨ #Accor Accor Novotel Hotels #AimbridgeHospitality

David Anderson, Divisional President, recently moderated the development panel at the European Hospitality Investment Conference in London.   He was joined on stage with our brand partners #Marriott, #IHG, #Accor and #Hilton to discuss competition within the premium economy sector and opportunities to convert properties, particularly those previously used for office space, to hotels across all brand categories. 📷 Panel participants pictured below: Jerome Briet, Chief Development Officer for Marriott International, Willemijn Geels, Vice President Development, EMEA for IHG Hotels & Resorts, Philippe Bijaoui, MRICS, SVP Development Europe & North Africa Accor and Patrick Fitzgibbon, Senior Vice President Development, EMEA for Hilton. #AMEHIC #AimbridgeHospitality