Premier Inn, the UK’s largest hotel chain, has secured six new hotel and restaurant sites in South West England and South Wales.
The six new sites are Bideford, Devon (70 bedrooms); Honiton Road in Exeter, Devon (102 bedrooms); Southernhay, also in Exeter (120 bedrooms); Falmouth, Cornwall (74 bedrooms); Newport, Wales (60 bedrooms); and Tenby, Pembrokeshire (61 bedrooms).
Whitbread, Premier Inn’s parent company, is aiming to increase the 49,000 Premier Inn bedrooms across the UK today to 65,000 by 2016.
John Bates, head of acquisitions in the UK and Ireland for Whitbread, said: “The South West is a key market for us and these latest deals add more excellent sites for our customers across the region and take us closer to achieving our target of 65,000 Premier Inn bedrooms by 2016.”
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