Copyright 1995-2010 Hsyndicate http://www.hsyndicate.org/organization/17000830.html Latest news, events, photos and more from Thistle Hotels en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:31:25 +0100 cs@hsyndicate.com (Hsyndicate) info@hsyndicate.com (Hsyndicate) Hsyndicate RSS FeedGenerator 5 http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4041149.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4041149.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:27:26 +0200 In its first foray out of the United Kingdom, hospitality giant Thistle Hotels will be making its presence felt in Asia through two key hotel properties in Malaysia - Thistle Johor Bahru and Thistle Port Dickson Resort. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4023504.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4023504.html Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0200 Thistle Hotels, the full service UK hotel group and London’s leading hotelier, is launching its new deluxe global brand offering, Guoman Hotels. The development reflects Thistle Hotels’ ambitions to extend its domination of the middle market hotel business in the UK by offering world class premium products to an upmarket international audience. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4023503.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4023503.html Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0200 Following a radical transformation, The Cumberland Hotel has re-opened in October featuring a unique fusion of design and technology. With 1000 rooms, the hotel offers style, comfort and personal service providing a de luxe experience for business and leisure guests. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4020090.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4020090.html Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0200 Thistle Hotels, London's biggest hotel chain, plans to sell six London hotels with the help of UBS Investment Bank, its Singapore-based parent BIL said on Tuesday. The value and location of the hotels were immediately available but BIL said the sale was part of a portfolio reshuffling at Thistle, which owns or manages 54 hotels and is 100-percent owned by BIL International Ltd http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4018533.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4018533.html Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0200 London and New York, Thistle Hotels and Affinia Hospitality today announced the formation of a sales and marketing alliance to expand awareness and build business in both the U.S. and United Kingdom. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4018315.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4018315.html Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0200 Thistle Hotels and NH Hoteles have reached an agreement to work together on their sales, marketing and public relations in the markets where they operate: the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. The agreement has been reached for an initial term of twelve months, renewable there after mutual content. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4015270.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4015270.html Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0200 Jersey-based Orb Estates, currently the subject of a Serious Fraud Office investigation, faces further controversy after the sale of its Thistle hotel portfolio to Allan Rankin, a Tyneside-based multi-millionaire. It has emerged that Rankin is a close business associate of an Orb adviser censured by the Takeover Panel for failing to disclose his links with Orb. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4014787.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4014787.html Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0200 LONDON, In light of current customer concerns about international travel Thistle Hotels, London's biggest hotel company, are removing one of these concerns from international group and event organizers. For the time being Thistle Hotels is suspending all cancellation charges for international inbound groups, meetings, events and conference bookings, provided that the group or event organizer can provide documentary evidence that the group did not travel as planned. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4014432.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4014432.html Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0200 Thistle Hotels Plc is providing the following update on trading for the financial year ended 29 December 2002, which is in line with expectations. The Preliminary Results for the financial year ended 29 December 2002 will be released on 3 March 2003. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4011196.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4011196.html Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:00:00 +0200 Thistle announces that it has today reached agreement with Gamma Four Limited (the "Acquirer"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Euro & UK Property Limited (a private venture capital company and the ultimate parent of the Orb group), regarding the terms of the proposed disposal of a group of subsidiary companies of Thistle which together own 37 Regional and London hotel businesses (the "Disposal"). http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4010688.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4010688.html Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0200 Total turnover for the 52 weeks to 30 December 2001 was £305.3 million, 5.9% lower than for the 53 weeks to 31 December 2000. Revenue per available room (Revpar) fell 5.4% to £50.56 with occupancy down by 4.8 percentage points to 71.0% and average room rate up by 1.0% to £71.21. In London Revpar was down 8.8% to £60.61 and turnover decreased by 9.8% to £183.7m. In the Regions Revpar was up 3.3% to £37.73 with turnover up 0.5% to £121.6m. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4009076.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4009076.html Thu, 06 Sep 2001 00:00:00 +0200 LONDON / Sept. 6, 2001--Organic, Inc. OGNC, a leading international Internet professional services firm, and Thistle Hotels, one of the United Kingdom's premier four-star hotel companies, announced today that the hotel's website (www.thistlehotels.com) has doubled its online revenue following Organic's recent redesign of the company's website. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4004818.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4004818.html Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0200 LONDON, April 25 / Thistle Hotels Plc has today become one of the first hotel groups in the UK to make its hotel reservation information accessible via the new range of mobile Internet phones using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). The new service, developed by iXL Enterprises IIXL, allows consumers to search for details on the nearest hotels, access directions, browse the latest special offers or 'e-Deals', and check information on the various business and leisure facilities. Thistle's new WAP-enabled service allows customers to access information on each of its 56 properties, situated in key city centers and countryside locations throughout the UK. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4002382.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4002382.html Tue, 06 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4000503.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/154000320/4000503.html Wed, 20 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0200 London, March 20, 1996 - Following major investment in London's Mount Royal Hotel, Thistle Hotels Plc pledges that there are no other hotels in the capital with 300 larger, more qualitative and better equipped rooms than the deluxe bedrooms and bathrooms at the Mount Royal. The 15 million pound refurbishment programme at the 690-bedroom hotel has totally transformed the former Mount Charlotte hotel on Oxford Street resulting in its relaunch today as the 50th Thistle hotel. This forms part of Thistle Hotels Plc's strategy of upgrading and transferring its four star Mount Charlotte properties to the rapidly expanding Thistle portfolio.