Premier Apartments Liverpool has won for the second year in succession the Self Catering Award with their local Regional Tourist Body, Mersey Tourism. Once again beating many new Serviced Apartments products in the city and in particular their main 4 star competitor, Staybridge.
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The team at Premier Apartments Manchester held a sales blitz in Manchester’s Piccadilly train station last week . The idea was to target travelers who may require accommodation and to raise awareness for the wonderfully product that we have in the city . The day was a great success throwing up a number of good leads . Don’t they all look well turned out ?
Wicklow has been chosen as the location for eight episodes of a popular Belgian soap opera called Thuis (meaning Home). The soap – featuring the magnificent scenery of Co Wicklow – will be seen by over 1.4 million viewers throughout Belgium, when the programme airs on national TV channel EEN in May and again in September.
With the assistance of Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland, the show’s producers scouted Wicklow recently and filming took place on location around the county, in places like Glendalough and Laragh. The eight episodes will feature a newly-married couple from the soap coming to Ireland for their honeymoon. The couple will experience the wonderful hospitality of the local people and view the beautiful scenery of counties Wicklow and Wexford, taking in a number of iconic visitor attractions including Glendalough.
Danielle Neyts, Tourism Ireland Belgium, said: “This is a wonderful opportunity for us to showcase Wicklow to the Belgian market. The publicity value of a programme like ‘Thuis’ is incalculable. It is one of the most popular TV programmes in Belgium and the wonderful scenery of Wicklow will be seen by millions of potential holidaymakers.
“Tourism Ireland has an extensive promotional programme in place for 2009, highlighting Wicklow and the island of Ireland as a fantastic holiday destination. It is absolutely essential that we convey the message that there has never been a better time for Belgians to visit the island of Ireland.”
It’s no secret that we have become very fond of Belgium over the last three years . Ever since PREM took over our first hotel in Belgium back in 2006 we have grown to love the country ,the people , the great city’s like Antwerp , the chocolate and the beer . Despite a few early challenges it is a good country to do business in ,the Belgium’s are very professional and hard working . I always felt that the perception of the country was unfair and they are poor at selling the many positives that they have to an international audience . But , that may be about to change according to this recent press report .Lets hope this initiative works .
De Standaard /Vlaams-Brabant/Brussel ; Tuesday 26 May 2009 ; p.50
Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel De Gucht (Open VLD) yesterday introduced his 38-member Business Council, which he formed to tackle the many complaints emanating from the business world about Belgium’s poor image. Thanks to the ongoing political crisis, that image has hit rock-bottom. Moreover, Belgium has lost 25 percent of its market share on the export market over the past ten years. The council of 38 members is made up of leaders of both major and minor Belgian companies.
They accept that a lack of coordination between the three regional administrations (Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia) is a handicap to foreign trade, while Belgium does not make sufficient use of its position as host-country to the EU and NATO either. Brussels could be a massive conference centre but not enough is invested to attract large international conferences, says Didier Malherbe of the pharmaceutical company, UCB. Jan De Nul, owner of the eponymous international dredging group, believes that Belgium is only still regarded as a quality location for its medical and health services.
According to the advertising executive Guillaume Vander Stighelen, Belgium is like a reverse Italian restaurant, with everything going well behind the scenes in the kitchen, but the moment the doors are opened the fights and crockery-breaking start.
I am delighted to announce that the overall winner’s for PREM Group’s Property of the Year Award 2008 goes to the highly deserving team at Premier Apartments Liverpool. This was a particularly tough decision as both runners up, Crown Plaza Brugge and Days Hotel Parkwest offered some very tough competition. Each property performed very well under all criteria: Financial performance, team focus, customer focus, supplier relationship, environmental and social initiatives. Outstanding however were the achievements of Premier Apartments Liverpool. Just one of their highlights was winning the Mersey Partnership Tourism Awards Self Catering property of the Year Award. 2008 brought many customers to the doors of Premier Apartments Liverpool, as the city enjoyed Capital of Culture – Marie and her team ensured that everyone who stayed will have reason to come back time and time again. Congratulations to Marie and all the team on becoming PREM Group’s Property of the Year for 2008!
Photo shows Jim Murphy presenting the award to Premier Apartments Liverpool GM Marie Melling .
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PREM UK person of the year 2008 was awarded to Neville Passerelli.
On Monday 20th of April PREM Group hosted a dinner in the Crowne Plaza Brugge to celebrate the retirement of Sam Sasportas . Sam was Prem’s Regional Director of Operations for Antwerp and Mechelen and he retired in April following a lenghty career in the hotel industry . I first met Sam back in April 2007 when Stephen Loftus and myself travelled to Antwerp to view the Carlton and the Astoria Hotels . Sam was managing Director of these two hotels and after 20 years the owners had decided to sell both property’s . Our first impressions of Sam were that he was a consummate hotel professional who was always dressed impeccably . These two hotels were his life and he ran them both in a manner that was a reflection of the very high standards that he set for himself . Following on from our acquisition of the two hotels Sam’s support and advice were invaluable to PREM as we dealt with the challenges of operating on mainland Europe for the first time . Sam went on to become PREM’s Director of Operations responsible for 5 hotels in the Antwerp cluster following our acquisition of the Global Hotel Group in September 2007 . Sam was not only a work colleague ,but he became a good friend to all of us who had the pleasure of spending time in Antwerp over the last few years . I would like to wish Sam and his wife Arleth a very happy retirement and we look forward to keeping in touch . Sam enjoy it , we envy you .
Thanks to Robbie Phoenix for sending me the following email and photo’s . Congratulations to the boys from Wayside Celtic ,the future of Irish soccer is in safe hands . I am glad they enjoyed our hotels in Hasselt .
Hi Jim
Myself and my son Ross were in Belgium for four days over the Easter holidays with Wayside Celtic FC. We booked into the Holiday Inn Hasselt & had dinner each night in the Express Inn Hasselt, I would just like to say that the staff in both hotels made us very welcome and made our stay in Belgium even better.
The good news is that Wayside Celtic FC won the Hasselt cup in Belgium and are know the champions of Europe for under 13. Please see attachments with Photos.
Kind Regards
Robbie Phoenix
Facility Manager
Premier Business Centers
12 Lower Hatch Street
D.2
