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Spring
Meeting, Calcot Manor -
27th and 28th April 2008
The MI spring meeting will take place at Calcot Manor,
starting with dinner on the Sunday evening. The General Meeting on the Monday
morning will be followed by a buffet lunch.
Subject to final approval by HRH, there will be a rare opportunity to tour the
gardens of Highgrove House that afternoon, followed by a reception in one of
the guest suites in the house. Republicans may prefer to play golf or have indulgent
treatments in the hotel spa!
The
weekend will conclude with a dinner during which Andrew Farquharson, a St Julian
Scholar and a member of the Royal Household, will tell us more about the Prince
of Wales and his views on organic food and the use of rare breed meat products.
The dinner will be based entirely on Highgrove food products (to minimise our
carbon footprint, naturally!).
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New
Master Innholders joining in 2007
Jane
Renton
GM, Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel. |
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Jane joined the Lowndes hotel early in 2004 and has overseen the renovation of
the entire hotel at a cost of £8 million. This chic retreat in the heart
of Belgravia is a stone’s throw from our conference hotel next January.
Delegates looking for an overnight stay in more informal surroundings from the
Carlton Tower will be able to see for themselves the success of the project.
After
college and some industrial experience, Jane returned
to Wales to take up a lecturing post at Pontypridd
Technical College. But she missed the excitement
of operations and retuned to ‘sharp end’ at
the Dorchester where she had a series of roles spread
over nine years, culminating in Rooms Division Operations
Manager.
She
left to become General Manager of Draycott House
Apartment Hotel, Chelsea, where she masterminded
its conversion to a full service hotel.
Jane
is an Executive Counsellor of the Institute of Hospitality.
She is a member of the Reunion des Gastronomes and
sits on the ‘International Council of Front
Office Managers Association’ the AICR. |
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Tom
Lewis
General Manager,
Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Oxfordshire. |
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Tom manages the property which even the most discerning hotelier
would love to be associated with, universally known as simply ‘Le
Manoir’. After studying at Westminster Technical College where
he gained his MHCIMA qualification, he trained at the Dorchester,
the Plaza Athenee in Paris and Hotel Villa Magna, Madrid. Subsequently
he took management positions at Dukes Hotel, London; the Lygon Arms,
Broadway; the Feathers at Woodstock and Great Forsters, Egham.
He
is involved with Oxford Brookes University in
their gastronomy module, belongs to the Oxford
Marketing Group and is instrumental in furthering
management development at Le Manoir by the introduction
of Managerial Assessment of Proficiency.
John
Stauss
Regional VP and
General Manager, Four Seasons, London. |
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John
has been General manager of the
four Seasons since 1994. As Regional
VP, his responsibilities have included
overseeing hotel operations at
other Four Seasons properties in
the UK as well as at several other
European cities. He joined the
group in 1982 as Resident Manager
in San Francisco and in 1985...
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Michael
Gray -
Hotelier
of the Year 2007
The Master
Innholders are delighted that Michael
Gray, their Treasurer and General Manager
of the Hyatt Regency London - the Chruchill,
has been announced as Hotelier of the
Year 2007.
Gray, who has
worked for Hyatt for 25 years, was
praised by the judges, who included
former Hoteliers of the Year John Stauss,
Robin Hutson, Peter Lederer and Harry
Murray along with AA Hotel Services
inspector Peter Birnie and Sally Shalam,
travel writer for the Guardian, as
being a consummate operator and someone
who delivers a consistent, quality
product in his hotel and is always
ready to lead the debate or support
the industry.
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GOLF SOCIETY DAYS 2008
Thursday
10 April :
RAC Golf and Country Club, Epsom
Wednesday
25 :
June Mannings Heath Golf Club, Horsham
Tuesday
19 :
August Hankley Common Golf Club, Nr Farnham
Tuesday
9 :
September Woking Golf Club, Woking
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became Preopening Manager for their hotel in
Newport Beach. In 1998 he moved to Nevis to
open their new hotel, which quickly became
recognised at the most successful resort of
its type in the Caribbean. He studied at Oregon
State University and later graduated with honours
from the Ecole Hotelerie de Lausanne. He was
recently awarded an honorary degree in International
Hospitality Management from the prestigious
Glion Institute of Higher Education, Switzerland.
John was awarded the prestigious Hotelier of
the Year by the Caterer and Hotelkeeper in
2005. His was the first hotel to win ‘Best
Places to Work in the UK’. He supports
a huge variety of industry initiatives including
Springboard, Considerate Hoteliers; ‘Adopt
a School’, as well as relationships with
hotel schools in Switzerland, Holland and the
UK.
Debbie
Taylor
General Manager
The Balmoral, Edinburgh |
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Debbie
took over the Balmoral in late 2003 when she
became the first woman to be General Manager
in the hotel’s 101 year history. She
was previously General Manager at Sir Rocco’s
Cardiff hotel, the St David’s. This followed
a varied career including positions in management,
operations and sales and marketing.
Debbie
has transformed many aspects of the Balmoral,
including an award winning customer care training
strategy to ensure outstanding experience for
all guests. She was awarded the RAC Hotelier of the Year in 2005.
The hotel has recently received two Scottish Thistle awards for
People Development and Marketing Initiative as well as two national
Business Excellent awards.
Debbie
is vice chair of BHA Scotland, chair of People
1st Scotland, first chair of the Board of Edinburgh
Convention Bureau, Business Champion, Edinburgh
Tourism Action Group and Council Member, Edinburgh
Principal Hoteliers’ Association. She is
also a St Julian Scholar and has just become
an Executive Councillor of the Institute of Hospitality.
Stuart
Bowery
General Manager
Marriott County Hall, London. |
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Stuart
has been GM at the London Marriott, County
Hall since 2003. In addition, he has ‘cluster’ responsibilities
for seven other Marriott hotels in London.
He has held previous General Manager positions
with Marriott at London Regents Park, Aberdeen
and Glasgow. He started his career at the Slough/Windsor
Marriott back in 1980, where he was fast-tracked
through the company graduate training programme.
In 1998 Stuart assumed a corporate role for
Whitbread Hotels as General Manager, Operations
where he had responsibility for aligning the
company’s brand standard with Marriott
International. He is currently chairman of
Marriott’s London Business Council, which
undertakes significant charity activities,
with fund-raising for local and national causes.
He was awarded Marriott International’s
General Manager of the Year in 2005.
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