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<br /> Hospitality<br /> June/July 2012<br /> Issue No. 9<br /> £2<br /> TODAY<br /> “Make British hospitality<br /> the real winner”<br /> Dame Kelly Holmes<br /> at the Hospitality &<br /> Tourism Summit<br /> The closure of<br /> ‘Assemblage’<br /> Conran Bows Out<br /> Hotel Awards<br /> £500k per room?<br /> ...and more<br /> Win an<br /> iPad 2<br /> see p27<br /> 2<br /> | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012<br /> Introduction<br /> “Make British “We need Government<br /> hospitality the real to hear from us with<br /> winner” one voice”<br /> Dame Kelly Holmes, Richard Solomons,<br /> Olympian Page 29 CEO of IHG Page 23<br /> hospitalitytoday.com | 3<br /> H<br /> ospitality<br /> EDITOR<br /> TODAY.c<br /> om<br /> David Weston<br /> editor@HospitalityToday.com<br /> DESIGN<br /> T<a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=1"> Hospitality </a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=2"> 2 | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=3"> Introduction “Make Br</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=4"> 4 | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012 </a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=5"> UK hotels & B&Bs now ‘among the very best’ after </a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=6"> Happier times: Alicia and James 6 | Hospitali</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=7"> Alicia told the story to David Weston: “It was </a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=8"> 8 | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=9"> Contractually he was bound to give three months</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=10"> 10 | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012 </a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=11"> “I think for me that I lost respect for him bec</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=12"> 12 | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012 </a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=13"> Moët UK ‘Sommelier of the Year’ Above</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=14"> 14 | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012 Conran</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=15"> Right: Des Gunewardena, Chairman and CEO of</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=16"> 16 | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012 AA Bed</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=17"> East House, in the High Street in Broadway, is</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=18"> The ArenA Lunch wiTh Simon KoSSoff Chief exe</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=19"> hospitalitytoday.com | 19 VisitEngland Awards: B</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=20"> 2O0ut|stHaonsdpintaglitCyuTsotdoamy er Service of</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=21"> 2012 marks the first year VisitEngland Awards </a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=22"> 22 | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012 The H</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=23"> “Tourism is another industry we should get behi</a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=24"> 24 | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012 </a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=25"> Taleb Rifai, UNWTO Envious glances were turned </a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=26"> 26 | Hospitality Today | June/July 2012 </a> <a title="HT #9 Jun/Jul 2012 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f502913d?page=27"> Hurdles? 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