Golden Tulip Hospitality Commences 2007 With a Celebration
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PRLEAP.COM) The New Year’s reception took place on Thursday January 25th at the Golden Tulip Loosdrecht. With over 250 business partners, colleagues and special guests, Hans Kennedie, President & CEO of Golden Tulip gave a welcome speech and presented several new developments.
To toast the opening of the first BRANCHE Restaurant, Bar & Lounge in Holland and to start Golden Tulip’s 45th Anniversary celebrations, Mr. Tuinema (founder of Golden Tulip) and Mr. Joop Braakhekke joined Hans Kennedie to fill up the champagne tower.
In celebration of its 45 years anniversary, Hans Kennedie presented the 2007 Scholarship to the Golden Tulip Accra in Ghana. The Ambassador of Ghana Dr. Mrs. Grace Amponsah-Ababio attended the reception to receive the certificate.
This scholarship programme is a fully funded scholarship that will be awarded to employees of the hotels operated by Golden Tulip for the coming five years. The scholarships consist of a full Bachelor study at the Hotelschool in The Hague in Hospitality Management.
Hans Kennedie, President & C.E.O. of Golden Tulip Hospitality, states: “This has been a delightful reception, the combination of the opening of the first BRANCHE in Holland and our 45 years anniversary are two large achievements that we are very proud of.”
About the Golden Tulip Hospitality Group
Golden Tulip Hospitality Group (
www.goldentulip.com), with its head offices in Amersfoort, The Netherlands and Lausanne, Switzerland, is a worldwide hospitality company with more than 630 hotels, 58.000 rooms in more than 49 countries. The Golden Tulip Hospitality Group franchises and manages hotels in Europe, the Middle East & Africa, the Asian Pacific Region and the Americas. In 2006, Hotels Magazine has ranked this company the 18th largest hotel chain.
As a multi-brand hospitality firm, the Golden Tulip Hospitality Group offers services in the two, three, four and five star categories. On the two-star side Golden Tulip has an alliance with the French B&B hotel chain. The three-star concept is the Tulip Inn for the limited-service first-class category, the four-star category falls under the Golden Tulip brand for the Superior First-Class business and Resort hotels and the recently introduced five-star concept Royal Tulip. In addition Golden Tulip offers its services through its commercial alliance with TOP International, a German based hotel consortium.
In the fall of 2006, Golden Tulip introduced BRANCHE, Restaurant, Bar and Lounge. This is a free standing restaurant chain, which will have establishments in most Golden Tulip Hotels and Tulip Inns operated by Golden Tulip. (For more information please visit
www.brancherestaurants.com)
For more information on the 45 years of existence of Golden Tulip please visit
http://www.goldentulip.com/45years
Media Relations
Golden Tulip Hospitality Group
Ms. Rocio Manzanares –
Corporate Communication Manager
Tel: +31 33 2544 828
Fax: +31 33 2544 816
E-Mail:
rocio.manzanares@goldentuliptop.com
Web:
www.goldentulip.com
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