TULIP: At the airport - Next to the Travelodge[msnwink]
A 135-bed hotel is to be built at Manchester Airport. Fast-growing international chain Golden Tulip has signed a lease with Manchester Airport Developments for a property near Junction Six of the M56.
The three-star Tulip Inn will have a 140-seater Bibo bar and bistro, with parking for 108 cars. There will also be meeting rooms available as part of Tulip Inn's Simply Meet service.
Golden Tulip will be taking a lease for 25 years. The hotel is due to be open in summer 2007. Architects Leach Rhodes Walker have designed the building.
John Atkins, strategy and development director at Manchester Airport Developments, said: "With its striking contemporary design, this will add to the 1,500 bedrooms already serving the airport. Golden Tulip is a complementary international brand for the airport's leisure and business customer, and we look forward to a long relationship."
The new hotel is the first sign of the expansion strategy unveiled by Manchester Airport last month.
The blueprint forecasts the airport will be generating £2.3bn a year for the region's economy by the year 2030. By that time, there could be as many as 50m passengers a year through the terminals.
Capacity
It claims that there is medium and long-term capacity for freight logistics, commercial and industrial development, hotels and airport services.
It also calls for a new planning framework to accommodate growth in airport-related activities and for a relaxation of green belt restrictions preventing development around the airport.
The new hotel is another stage in Golden Tulip's rapid expansion programme. Earlier this year, it announced a £30m programme of openings.
Peter Roberts, chief executive of Golden Tulip UK, said: "The Tulip Inn Manchester Airport will be our first UK airport hotel and the fifth new Tulip Inn site we have announced this year.
"With more than 40 million passengers expected to be using the airport within a decade, and nearly 150 companies already within a 10-minute drive of the site, I am convinced this hotel will prove very popular.
"I hope this deal will help us acquire sites at other UK airports."
Golden Tulip UK operates hotels in Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle Gateshead, Portsmouth, Leeds and Dublin Airport, and is part of Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns & Resorts, an international hotel group with over 500 properties worldwide.
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