The Finalists
The finalists and winners for the 2009 Hotel report Awards are as follows:
Rising Star
- Citizen M
- Doubletree by Hilton *Winner*
- Indigo - InterContinental Hotels Group
- Pantin Hotels
- Purple Hotels
Deal of the Year
- Premier Inn and Mitchells & Butlers asset swap
- Arora International- £309m acquisition of assets from Airport Property Partnership *Winner*
- Kor Group's 50% sale to Mubadala
- BDL Select Hotels' Paten Hotels buy
Single asset deal of the Year
- Starwood Hotels & Resorts £55m sale of the Turnberry to Leisurecorp *Winner*
- Alrov's £90m café Royal deal
- Grupo Statuto's £85m sale of Crowne Plaza Blackfriars to Marg Galadari
- Ability Group's c.£50m purchase of Cambridge Garden House
- JJW's c.Eu180m acquisition of Le Meridien Dona Filipa from Starman Capital
Advisor of the Year
- Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Europe
- CMS Cameron McKenna
- Cushman & Wakefield
- Halliwells
- TRI Hospitality Consulting *Winner*
Individual of the Year
- Surinder Arora, owner and chairman, Arora Hotels
- Grant Hearn, chief executive, Travelodge
- Andy Cosslett, chief executive, InterContinental Hotels Group
- Alan Parker, chief executive, Whitbread *Winner*
- Kurt Ritter, president and chief executive, Rezidor Hotel Group
Innovator of the Year
Innovator in CSR
- Dexter Moren, Dexter Moren Architects
- Gordon Campbell Gray
- Starwood Hotels & Resorts
- Rezidor Group
- IHG (for The Innovation Hotel) *Winner*
Investor of the Year
Emerging Markets deal of the Year
- Tune Hotels expansion into east Malaysia
- IHI's acquisition of the Metropole
- Kempinski's expansion into China and Russia *Winner*
- Jurys Inn expansion into eastern Europe
- Sale of the Park Inn Yekateringberg for Eu22.5m by SRV Russia
