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>> The ACCOR hotel group has opened three new MERCURE properties, in Bedford, Telford and Nottingham, and will add a further three, in Cardiff, Birmingham and Harlow, by the end of the year. All six previously operated under the Park Inn brand >> Executive Serviced Apartments (esa) has re-branded as FLYING BUTLER APARTMENTS. The company has over 400 units across London and the South East >> Aparthotel operator NATIVE has opened a 166-unit property in Manchester's Northern Quarter. It occupies eight floors of a former Victorian warehouse >>

FOUR SEASONS has opened a 219-room hotel at the top of Philadelphia's tallest building, the Comcast Center.