Jurys Inn keeps on developping

Based in Dublin, the group now operates 30 hotels in Ireland and the UK and has taken a first step in Continental Europe, to reach approximately 7,000 hotel rooms. This ambitious strategy has been implemented since the arrival at the helm of John Brennan. Former regional Vice President for Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, John Brennan is an hotelier by tradition. His father, Michael, was a legend in the original Doyle Hotel Group, and his brother is also in the hotel business. He left the Canadian group in 2007 to join Quinlan Private as Director of Hospitality and then took over his position as Chief Executive Officer of Jurys Inn from Niall Geoghegan, shortly after the separation from the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group in 2007. Jurys Inn was then purchased for €1,166 billion by Quinlan Private and its business partner.Jurys Inn is also spending €1.8 million on a new IT platform to drive revenues and reservations, after saving almost the same amount on operating costs through energy savings, re-contracting with suppliers, wages freeze… In the long run, the group is also counting on its environmental approach to save even more. Across all its hotels, Jurys Inn has implemented a range of green programmes, from installing energy efficient light bulbs to monitoring each hotel’s energy consumption using an external assessor. “Jurys Inn is set to be the UK’s greenest hotel group by becoming the first in the UK to have all its 29 UK and Ireland ‘everyday exceptional’ city centre hotels rewarded either a gold or silver award from the Green Tourism Business Scheme”, proudly claims John Brennan with an aim to achieve gold in all of them. This issue is not only a “green” gesture: “Over 76% of UK consumers are more likely to take environmental issues into account when...