Hotel & Restaurant Sector
The Dean Galway Opens for Business
Hospitality Ireland – 28.04.2022
The Dean Galway hotel officially opened for business on Wednesday 27th April. The Dean Galway is a 100-bed boutique hotel that is more than 5,000 square metres in size. In addition to its 100 bedrooms, the property includes Sophie’s rooftop restaurant and terrace and Dime Coffee. An Elephant & Castle restaurant, a pub called Peg’s Bar, and an event space called the Blue Room will all open at the venue as part of Phase Two of its launch in May. A Power Gym will open at the venue in the summer of this year.
Dalata confirms recovery as it opens new Dublin hotel
RTE – 28.04.2022
Ireland's largest hotel operator Dalata Hotel Group said that hotel room revenue (RevPAR) surpassed pre-pandemic levels for the first time as it expressed optimism for summer trading. Dalata reported at the start of March that RevPAR - a key measure of a hotel's top-line performance - was approaching pre-pandemic levels. It said today that for March and April RevPAR is expected to be 109% of the corresponding 2019 period. A number of Dalata's hotel rooms in Ireland are currently being utilised for other purposes, including to accommodate Ukrainian refugees, the hotel group added in a trading update. In a trading update ahead of its AGM in Dublin, Dalata said it had moved "firmly" into recovery with strong trading post re-opening across all markets after another challenging year in 2021.