Sunday, October 11, 2009

Cheap rooms and coffee help Whitbread through worst of hospitality slump

Premier Inn, the UK’s biggest hotel chain, will claim it is winning a cut-throat price war raging across the hospitality industry when its owners at Whitbread check in with trading results on Tuesday.
Chief executive Alan Parker will say that heavy promotional activity, spearheaded by comedian Lenny Henry, has helped it to increase its share of the key business market while attracting new custom from the tourist trade in the opening months of the year

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