Haymarket Media Group is a privately held media company headquartered in London. It has publications in the consumer, business and customer sectors, both print and online. It operates exhibitions allied to its own publications, and previously on behalf of organisations such as the BBC. The company expanded outside the UK in 1999.
Amadeus IT Group, S.A. is a major Spanish IT provider for the global travel and tourism industry.
Mark Sargeant is an English chef and restaurateur from Larkfield, Kent.
Travel Trade Gazette, known as TTG, is a weekly newspaper for the travel industry.
The Caterer is a weekly UK business magazine for hospitality professionals. It covers all areas of the hospitality industry providing news, analysis and features about senior industry professionals, businesses and trends. It also includes monthly reviews of the latest hospitality products, from kitchen equipment to food and beverages.
Heinrich Bauer Publishing, trading as Bauer Media Group, is a German multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Hamburg. It operates worldwide and owns more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations, as well as print shops, postal, distribution and marketing services. Bauer has a workforce of approximately 11,000 in 17 countries.
Jurys Inn was a hotel group operating across the UK, Ireland, and Czech Republic, with 36 locations under the Jurys Inn brand and 7 under the Leonardo brand. In total, the company operated 38 hotels in the UK, four in Ireland, and one in the Czech Republic, with some 7,500 rooms between them, served by 4,000 employees. The group was founded in Ireland in 1993 and has been gradually expanding its operations ever since.
The Hotel Collection was a group of 4-star mid-market hotels operating in the United Kingdom. The group also included 18 health and leisure clubs. It ceased to exist as a separate entity, in 2015, when it was injected into the Amaris Hospitality portfolio who progressively sold off all the hotels
The Hilton London Metropole is a 1,100-room 4-star hotel and conference centre located on Edgware Road in central London. It is bounded by the Marylebone Flyover to the north, Praed Street to the south, and the Paddington Basin development to the west.
The British Hospitality Association (BHA), incorporating The Restaurant Association (RA), was a non-government representative body for hotels, clubs, restaurants, leisure outlets and other hospitality-related organisations nationwide headquartered in London, UK. In 2019 it merged with the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) to form UKHospitality. The association promotes the interests of the hospitality industry to the Government Ministers, Members of Parliament (MPs), Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), Members of the Senedd (MSs), MEPs, the EU Commission, the City and the Media. The association operates by membership-based system.
MKG Group is a consulting and market research firm based in Paris, France. The group operates various divisions within the tourism, hotel and hospitality sector, namely monitoring global trends in supply, demand and pipeline growth, including the worldwide chain hotel brand and chain hotel group rankings, as well as conducting specialised industry research for stakeholders, private investors, developers, hoteliers, government and tourism associations, banking and financial institutions, and hedge funds.
Feng Sushi is a UK-based restaurant chain known for advocating sustainable fish farming. The company was founded in 1999 by chef Silla Bjerrum and chef Jeremy Rose, with restaurant entrepreneur Luke Johnson the majority owner since 2010.
Dakota Hotels is a UK-based hotel brand with five locations, each with a brasserie-style Grill and cocktail Bars. Dakota Hotels first opened two boutique hotels near Edinburgh Airport in South Queensferry, and in Eurocentral, Motherwell South East of Glasgow. The brand has now expanded into Central Glasgow, Leeds, and Manchester. The brand was founded by Ken McCulloch and is owned by Evans Property Group.
Philip C. Wolf was an American entrepreneur and executive known for his work in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. The founder and former CEO of travel industry research firm PhoCusWright, Wolf served as board director and advisor to multiple travel and technology companies.
Lowcostholidays was a travel company and a consumer-facing brand of the lowcosttravelgroup, which was founded in 2004. It operated to destinations worldwide, with a focus on European city and beach breaks. Around 500 people worked for the brand, which was based in Palma de Mallorca, with additional offices located in London, and Krakow. The company collapsed and went into administration on 15 July 2016. The collapse of the company was blamed on low turnover in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
Banyan Tree Holdings Limited is a Singaporean multinational hospitality brand that manages and develops resorts, hotels and spas in Asia, America, Africa and the Middle East. The brand was established in 1994. As of 2021, the company operates 55 resorts and hotels. Under its management are also 63 spas, 64 retail galleries, and three championship golf courses in 23 countries.
Minor Hotels is an international hotel owner, operator and investor from Bangkok, Thailand with more than 550 hotels in 55 countries across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Europe and the Americas. The hotel group operates as a subsidiary of Minor International PCL, one of the largest hospitality and leisure companies in the Asia Pacific region. The group operates hotels under the brands of Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas, Avani Hotels & Resorts, NH Hotels, NH Collection, nhow Hotels, Tivoli Hotels & Resorts, Oaks Hotels & Resorts and Elewana Collection.
Audley Travel is a tour operator based in the UK in Witney, Oxfordshire, with offices in London and Boston. The company covers over 90 destinations worldwide, providing tailor-made travel. According to the Financial Times, Audley is the largest operator in this market.
Clive Jacobs is a British businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Holiday Autos Group and Travel Weekly Group.
Northstar Travel Group is a publications and event management company focused on the travel industry. The company's brands include Business Travel News, Travel Procurement, The Beat, Travel Weekly, Travel Pulse, TravelAge West, Travel Weekly China, Successful Meetings, Meetings & Conventions, Incentive, M&C China, Travel42, Axus Travel App, and Web in Travel. It also owns Phocuswright, a research, business intelligence, and event producer serving the travel technology industry, and its publication, Phocuswire. The company produces more than 80 events in 13 countries related to the travel industry, including the Phocuswright Conference, ALIS, The Business Travel Show, The Meetings Show, Web in Travel, CruiseWorld, Global Travel Marketplace, and TEAMS. It owns a majority of Inntopia.
