UK: Queensgate Investments has completed the acquisition of Generator Hostels and immediately installed a new management team. Queensgate Investments Fund II, which is managed by Queensgate Investments, a real estate private equity manager, has bought Generator from Patron Capital for around €450 million. Queensgate Investments’ plan is “to own the
UK: Queensgate Investments, a private equity real estate fund manager, is to buy Generator Hostels from Patron Capital and its co-investor Invest Real Estate. UK: Queensgate Investments, a private equity real estate fund manager, is to buy Generator Hostels from Patron Capital and its co-investor Invest Real Estate. Generator, the
UK: IHM’s Urban Living Festival [ULF] returns for its third edition on 5-6 July 2023 as CEOs, ‘best of breed’ speakers and attendees, sponsors and solution providers come together to collectively share best practice, network, map the industry’s future and do business from right across the travel, hospitality and real estate landscape.
Ewald Damen, creative director and managing partner at interior design firm Virgile + Partners, shares his thoughts on the impact of technology and AI on the future role of the creative director.
UK: Tristan Capital Partners (TCP) has purchased a majority share in Raag Hotels, which owns Point A Hotels, for £420 million.
UK: Property management system Mews has acquired Hotel Perfect including the company’s product line, customers and team. Hotel Perfect provides a suite of property management solutions for full service and independent hotels, including direct booking channel, EPoS, channel management, guest communications and dynamic pricing. The business has a UK-wide customer
Changing demographics, social and economic drivers are fuelling investor decisions across broader Urban Living asset classes. The ‘age of convergence’ blended across hospitality and real estate is happening at pace as we emerge, re-set and focus on the future different. ULF places the spotlight directly on investment, development, supply, operations,
UK: International Hospitality Media (IHM), the publisher of BHN, has announced it will be postponing the inaugural Urban Living Festival until July next year, and is launching a series of Urban Living Lite online and offline events following a recent announcement from UK prime minister Boris Johnson. Urban Living Festival
UK: International Hospitality Media [IHM], the leading online publisher and event organiser for the hospitality and real estate sectors, is delighted to confirm that its latest launch – Urban Living Festival: stay • live • work – will go ahead as scheduled on 25-26 November at Tobacco Dock in London.
Global: With the International Hotel Investment Forum postponed until 2021, organiser Questex has launched In Sync, a two-day online event. Kicking off the operators panel, Nicholas Northam, EVP international at Interstate Hotels & Resorts outlined the state of play for his company: “Half of our hotels are closed, those that
