London, England, October 26, 2009 – London Executive Aviation (‘LEA’) is today celebrating inclusion on the shortlist of the 2010 Business Travel Awards, the leading business travel industry honours. The company is named as a finalist in the category for Best Executive Aviation Company. (more…)

All fans of English football will clearly remember Kevin Keegan’s “I will love it if we beat them!” outburst toward the end of the 1995/96 season. As manager of Newcastle United, he was responding angrily to rival manager Alex Ferguson’s perceived suggestion that other teams wanted Newcastle to win the league rather than Ferguson’s Manchester United. Keegan felt Ferguson was implying opposition teams would not try very hard to beat Newcastle. Experts in sports psychology are convinced that Keegan’s show of fury on live national television revealed how much he was suffering under the pressure. Ferguson had won the mental battle. Manchester United went on to win the league. (more…)

A good start to the week! As a follow-up to our recent post about the power of industry awards as PR tools, we learnt this morning that both London Executive Aviation and KDS have been shortlisted in the Business Travel Awards. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on 18 January at the Grosvenor House. Fingers crossed until then!

Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, Luton

Property client The Ability Group is building up a head of steam on its hotel portfolio openings. This week we worked with operator Hilton to announce Ability’s plans for a Hilton Garden Inn in Luton (pictured). This came hard on the heels of the jamboree that marked the opening of the Doubletree by Hilton Dunblane Hydro.

London, 23 October 2009 – The Ability Group (‘Ability’), the diversified private property company led by Andreas Panayiotou, is developing a 250-bedroom hotel on a prime site next to London Luton Airport. The hotel is to be operated by Hilton Worldwide as a Hilton Garden Inn.

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