Category: HQ news

arrangeMY are proud to announce the acquisition of Bakewell based Hotel Focus. The acquisition will inject arrangeMY’s industry leading IT and online solutions to Hotel Focus’ existing exceptional service and care. Nick Scott, Managing Director of arrangeMY said: “We welcome
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We are thrilled to have been announced as a finalist in the Service Excellence category of the Midlands Family Business Awards, the UK’s only independent, not-for-profit annual Awards showcase for family businesses in the Midlands. Members of our team will now
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We are thrilled to be one of the first in the industry to launch a new rate checking technology that will save customers money, even after a reservation has been made. Uniquely, this technology is designed to work with existing
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Sign up to our e-newsletter before Friday 25th May and you will automatically be entered in to a prize draw to win an overnight stay for 2 people in Birmingham, including a Super Breakfast buffet and dinner*. Formerly known as
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As we move into the final part of our ’12 Reasons’ campaign, we take a look at how our friendly Account Management team are an integral part of our offering. Sticking to you like glue Planning events, arranging travel and
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Vue Entertainment has generously donated our latest competition prize for May, giving a lucky winner the opportunity to get their hands on four complimentary tickets to a film of their choice at a location of their choosing. Vue Cinemas will
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It was with a heavy heart that we said a fond farewell to our Chief Executive and Founder Simon recently, after an amazing 27 years nurturing and directing arrangeMY. After breaking into the hotel industry at the tender age of
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Our competition for April has been kindly donated by Jury’s Inn Brighton Waterfront. The lucky winner will enjoy an overnight stay for two with a full English breakfast included. The 4-star hotel has recently undergone a £5.85m refurbishment and boasts 210 bedrooms
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This week as part of our ’12 Reasons’ campaign, we explore how our bespoke arrangeMY data solution provides our clients with up-to-date information, making travel and business arrangements as simple as possible.  Getting the best for your buck Ensuring cost
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Clients that currently use our free online booking tool, arrangeMY TRIP, will see a number of improvements and enhancements to the system aimed at improving overall user experience. Due to go live on 1 April, users will now be able
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Alison Geddes has been announced as our competition winner for March. Alison The will enjoy a complimentary one night stay on a Bed & Breakfast basis at any Corus or Laura Ashley hotel. When you’re away from home, it’s comforting to know that
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  This month, as part of our ’12 Reasons’ campaign, we talk through the ‘what ifs’ and how arrangeMY’s emergency assistance will ensure quick and efficient problem solving in the rare event of something going wrong. Traveller safety is paramount
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  Business travel is set to increase in 2017, according to the seventh annual Business Travel Show forecast. It will, however, remain important for organisations to be as cost effective as possible when it comes to arranging their business travel.
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  We are proud to announce the launch of our industry leading online management information solution, arrangeMY data. System Manager Gary Davies commented: “We strive to always be leaders in our industry, both in the service levels offered by our
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February’s competition was won by Esme Cordon from Halfords. Esme will enjoy a one night stay at a QHotels venue of choice, including breakfast. QHotel has 26 unique four star hotels across the UK, each with its own individual character and team of welcoming
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  Each month we have been running you through the main reasons why arrangeMY is the one stop shop for all of your business travel needs. This time, we roll into reasons #8 and #9 to explain how our enthusiastic
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  This month’s competition prize, kindly donated by The Principal Hotel Company, was won by Laura Chambers from the  National Cancer Research Institute. Laura will enjoy a one-night stay with dinner, bed and breakfast at a De Vere country property of her choice. 
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  Every month we give you a reason why arrangeMY should be your preferred business travel specialist. This month, as we hit #6 & #7, we explain how our friendly team of experts will help you to find the perfect
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At the end of 2016 the company awards were awarded, voted by everyone at arrangeMY. The winners were as follows, The Best Newcomer Award – Will Brooks – Will was found to be the best newcomer within the company in
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  We are pleased to announce the relaunch of our events division, amg events, which will add to the current business expertise we are able to offer all of our clients. Our team encompasses all of the core competencies required
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  We are pleased to announce that we have been selected as finalists in the M&IT Industry Awards. The prestigious industry awards bring together the various sectors of the business to measure market reaction in rewarding excellence of service. The Awards is
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  The winner of our Christmas competition was Ian Collinson. Ian won an afternoon tea for two at Stanbrook Abbey Hotel, in Worcestershire, which he is planning to use following a visit to the Morgan Motor Company in Malvern. Worcestershire’s hidden
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  I would like to thank all of our clients for their continued business support during 2016, which has contributed to our ongoing success and growth. I’m particularly delighted that our feedback with ‘service’ and ‘customer satisfaction’ remains superb. I appreciate you
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  Every month we give you a reason why arrangeMY should be your preferred business travel specialist. This month, as we hit #5, we talk about our dedicated, flexible and personal approach to managing your enquiries. Our team of industry
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  We are pleased to announce we will be helping to support patients and families in Worcestershire as we raise money for St Richard’s Hospice, our chosen charity of the year. Following a unanimous staff vote, we will host a range
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  We are pleased to announce that our Village Hotel Club competition winner was Aufric Muller from the National Cancer Research Institute. Aufric has won a one night stay for two at a chosen Village Hotel. Congratulations! The Village Hotel Club experience has
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  We catch up with four members of our team and find out about their favourite travel destinations and why: Julie Lee, Business Travel Manager – British Columbia, Canada British Columbia is Canada’s westernmost province. It is defined by its
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  As our 12 Reasons campaign reaches #4, we explain why our award winning online tool, arrangeMY TRIP, can make booking your travel arrangements easy and stress free. Wherever you are in the world, our free online booking tool allows
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  Whether you are a frequent flyer or only occasionally venture overseas for work, the experience will no doubt impact on your personal time and energy levels. We’ve put together some tips to help make air travel easier for you.
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  We explain why our airfare expertise will help you with your overseas travel arrangements in our ‘12 Reasons’ campaign. #3 – Our airfare expertise Business travel is essential to an organisation’s success, even in this modern day and age
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  Our competition prize of the month was won by Trudi Roberts. Thanks to Hallmark Hotels, Trudi won a one night break with dinner, bed and breakfast at her chosen hotel. Hallmark Hotels continues to offer a one in five delegates go
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  The team at arrangeMY has raised over £1,300 for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity, helping the rapid response emergency charity continue to fly high. Following a year of staff fundraising events and activities, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity was presented with the
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  As our 12 Reasons campaign continues, we share our #2 reason on why we are experts on price. #2 – Experts on price When it comes to travel arrangements many of us strive to get the best quality service
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East Midlands Airport will close its runway every weekend for nearly two months as major repairs are made. The airport will be out of operation every weekend from November 5 to December 19 as its refurbished – the last time
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Even with its artificial islands, underwater villas, ski slopes and record-breaking skyscrapers, it would seem that the outrageousness of Dubai’s construction projects still has the capacity to surprise. The five-star Rosemont Hotel & Residences will be coming to the desert city
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The world’s largest hotel is currently being built in Mecca and is set to open next year. The Abraj Kudia is costing £2.7 billion to build (funded by the Saudi Ministry of Finance) and will have 10,000 rooms over 1.4
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The first of our 12 Reasons to place your business travel in our safe hands. arrangeMY know how important it is that you are getting the best rates possible when it comes to your business travel. We also know how
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We are very pleased to announce Leanne Murphy as the lucky winner of our hotel competition. Leanne will be spending two nights at Hogarths Stone Manor near Kidderminster with breakfast and dinner included. Competition winner Leanne said, “I’m very excited
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It’s everyone’s favourite arrangeMY blog post! The 60 seconds slot! This week Katie Frazier, Business Travel Consultant tells us seven little known facts about herself. 1. Barcelona is my favourite city of the ones I’ve visited. 2. I love sewing
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1. Check in online. Most airlines offer check-in 24 hours before your flight departs. Not only can you choose your seat, but sometimes the earlier you check in, the higher your chances are of being upgraded. 2.When choosing your seat,
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Post- Brexit, the British Pound is fluctuating against the Euro – and the Dollar. This means people looking for a summer holiday this year might not be as keen on heading into Europe as they once were – and looking for
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Hotel Trends to Watch We recently got our quarterly report on the hotel market from Worldwide Independent Travel Network and these are some interesting trends the report highlighted for 2016: Hotel rate increases will slow down. It will still be
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Our Business Travel Consultant, Adam Baker was recently very lucky and went to Athens with Hilton Hotels. Greece is a country that has a large amount of territory that consists of 2 mainland peninsulas & thousands of islands located in
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Our Venue Finding Coordinator, Laura Brinkworth went for a weekend to experience the bright lights of Blackpool with Hilton Hotels. Here’s what she had to say about her enjoyable weekend: When we arrived at the Hilton Blackpool we were greeted by very
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Our Venue Finding Coordinator, Angie Lowes was lucky enough to go and see 3 venues from De Vere Venues, Principal Hayley & Four Pillars, and also enjoy the Aegon Open Tennis finals. Here’s what she had to say about her fantastic weekend: We
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In February 2015, Helena and Andy Hogarth, who had built up a £4m business with Hogarths Hotel Solihull, bought Stone Manor Hotel in Worcestershire. The hotel had an iconic place in the lives of many local people. However, it was
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There could be a number of different reasons to call a meeting, and the purpose should be reflected in the way it is set up. Our friends over at Marriott hotels have put together a list of the different reasons
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Event Organising is a tricky business. Fortunately we have a lot of experience in that field! We like to share so Laura Brinkworth, Venue Finding Coordinator has put together some things an Event Organiser should never do: 1. Never Assume
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Our Venue Finding Coordinator, Laura Brinkworth recently jetted off to stay at the Hilton in Warsaw. Here’s what she had to say about Warsaw’s venues: I had an early flight out to Warsaw so I stayed the night at the
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We are proud to announce the launch of our new industry leading online management information solution, arrangeMY data. System Manager Gary Davies explained “We strive to always be leaders in our industry, both in the service levels offered by our
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Big Congratulations go to Andrew Haydock-Watson, Field Capability Manager at Field Sales Solutions and winner of our competition. Andrew has won a day meeting for up to 10 people at Warwick Conferences– completely free!

  Have you ever been asked to find a block of hotel rooms for an upcoming event and found the prices to be extortionate or even worse that there are none left? Here at ArrangeMy, we can really take the
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Yes, that’s right we are launching a competition for everyone to get involved in. We’re offering one lucky winner the chance to hold a ‘day meeting’ for up to 10 people at Warwick Conferences free of charge*. This means the
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  At ArrangeMy HQ we recently hosted our staff awards evening. This annual event gives us an opportunity our whole team together to recognise long service and great achievements. Our 2016 awards were presented to: Zoe Adams & Gavin Poole
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Our Business Development Manager Justin Dilks, gives us the key points to remember when doing a show round for a client at your venue. 1) Try not to say ‘No’ when a client wants to site visit unless you really
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Our friends at PH Hotels, Four Pillars Hotels and De Vere Venues have asked us to share an exclusive booking offer with you. You can access a promotional 15% off the Best Available Rate (BAR) across their entire portfolio.  The following
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Back in October Naomi Phillips, Group Sales Director, for Classic Lodges Hotels came in to update us on everything within their group. Here’s what Naomi told us, Because one size doesn’t fit all What’s the perfect balance when you’re choosing the right
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A couple of weeks ago we were joined by Flow, Venue Sales Executive, from The National Agricultural and Exhibition Centre (NAEC). Flow came in to update us on the NAEC and give us all the info! “If you’re looking for a versatile
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David Goodman, Key Account Manager, from Travelodge came in to see us and was raving about their new “Best Ever Breakfast” From 31st October 2015 Breakfast will be available in all Bar Cafes, within Travelodge hotels. With lots more to offer
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Today we were visited by Michael Hodgkinson, Director of Key Accounts for Hallmarks Hotels, to give us all the latest news on Hallmark Hotels and how they have created a group of 20 properties!!! “The 12 Menzies Hotels have finally re branded into Hallmark
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  Our staff pride themselves on their great customer service and friendly approach. And we know that our clients like to know a little bit about our amazing team members who provide their knowledge and advice when booking business travel.
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  The Lufthansa surcharge is very prominent in the news feeds at the moment having come into effect on the 01 September 2015. Lufthansa Group (LHG, comprising of Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian, Brussels) has introduced a ticketing fee for tickets validated on LHG member
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  We were thrilled to welcome Claire Gillespie, National Account Manager for Marriott Hotels, to the ArrangeMY offices recently, who updated us on all things Marriott: “With more than 4,000 properties in over 80 countries and territories worldwide, our portfolio of
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Sundial Group is delighted to be back on the road this summer visiting agents up and down the country with their iconic 1960s Routemaster bus. On Tuesday 28th July, the Chudbus arrived at the Arrange My Group offices with plenty
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By Sara Mason-Parker, Operations Manager, ArrangeMY Wondering about the benefits of using a Travel Management Company? They are four-fold! We can save you time and money with the added benefits of consistency during the booking process and complimentary account management.
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Business Travel Consultant Bex Bowden represented ArrangeMY at this year’s Advantage Focus Champions Conference: ‘My colleague, Bruce Canty, and I were lucky enough to be invited to the Advantage Focus Champions Conference 2015 in FrankFurt. This was their 10 year
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Following his latest ‘FAM’ (familiarisation) trip to Dubai, Business Travel Consultant Bruce Canty kindly took the time to tell us about his experience: ‘Day one consisted mainly of travelling but after meeting with the group of agents, Sangita from Dubai
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We were delighted to welcome Kelly Whitehouse to ArrangeMY HQ today, who was calling in to collect a rather sizeable cheque on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support. We were thrilled to be able to hand over nearly £10,000 to Kelly,
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Belfast. What can I say? An incredible city with a wealth of things to see and do. I had a day and a half to fit in the sights of the city. My journey started with the SS Nomadic. We
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A couple of our team visited two fantastic venues last week that we were very impressed by and would thoroughly recommend: MSE Meeting rooms MSE Meeting Rooms benefit from an excellent central location on Oxford Street, halfway between the Tottenham
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  We were thrilled to welcome Sally Winston, Group National Account Manager for Redefine BDL Hotels, to the office this week. Sally was on hand to present our ’employee of the month’ awards, which the company had kindly sponsored. Sally
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Cheryl Russell, National Conference Sales Manager for the newly formed UK based management company Valor Hospitality has been telling us all about its already growing portfolio. Valor Hospitality Europe now manages 17 properties across the UK and have recently acquired
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Our visitors this week were the team from Corus Hotels, so we challenged them to give us their elevator pitch; this was what they said: ‘When you’re away from home, it’s comforting to know that the warmest and friendliest of
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This week, we had the pleasure of meeting Sheena Sivagnanam, Key Account Manager for the Intercontinental Hotels Group. Sheena was kind enough to tell us a little more about the group: “We are one of the world’s leading hotel companies,
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We were delighted to host representatives from Park Inn this week and as is tradition, we invited Sales Manager Emma Lawrence to tell us a little bit more about the group. Here’s what she had to say: ‘As one of the world’s
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Kerry Hickman, Sales Manager for Hyatt Regency swung by to say hello to the ArrangeMy teams at HQ. Here’s some background info. on their company: Hyatt Regency are a global hospitality company with widely recognized, industry leading brands and a
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Jamie Hunter from Village popped in to say hello, here’s what he had to say: Everything you could wish for under one roof – Rooms at Village are comfortable, stylish, have power showers and flat screen TVs – that’s a
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Sam Davies from O’Callaghan Hotels called in to see us today so we thought we’d share who they are with you! O’Callaghan Hotels is a family owned and managed hotel chain, offering a choice of 6 hotels located in Ireland,
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Afternoon tea – Sounds simple, but it’s really not!! Recently my wife and I have been lucky enough to partake of afternoon tea in several of the best “Afternoon Tea” joints in this country (and abroad) and I can tell
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