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Bristol Airport to get first hotel
Bristol Airport is to get its first hotel later this year when Hilton Worldwide opens a modular hotel under the Hampton by Hilton economy brand.
Acting in partnership with Chinese modular building provider CIMC, who will finance and own the hotel, Hilton will open the 201-room airport hotel in Q4 2016. It will incorporate flexible meeting spaces, a 24-hour fitness room, parking for 120 cars and complimentary wifi.
Construction has already begun alongside the long stay car park where the container-like modules are piling up.
Bristol Airport’s CEO Robert Sinclair said: “The development of a high quality on-site hotel to be operated under such a world-renowned brand will be a very welcome addition to our facilities for the growing number of passengers choosing to fly to and from Bristol Airport. Alongside the terminal extension currently under construction, this is another statement of our ambition to be a world class regional airport serving the South West of the UK.”
Senior vice president of development, Europe & Africa, Hilton Worldwide Patrick Fitzgibbon said: “CIMC’s capacity to deliver modular sections of the building to the final hotel site offers an incredible opportunity to overcome many of the challenges faced during construction.”
Bristol is the only top ten UK airport to see passenger growth every year since 2009 and saw record volumes last year when 6.7 million people passed through the terminal, making it the UK’s ninth busiest passenger airport.