The road we've travelled

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Our Journey So Far

The Great National Hotel Group was founded by in 2009 and is now considered to be one of the UK and Ireland’s fastest growing Hotel & Resort Groups with a unique collection of 4* and 3* Hotel properties.

March 2010

Company commences trading as a Hotel marketing services provider including reservations call centre, website building and revenue management as our main services. Our first central reservations booking taken by phone, demand greatly exceeds initial expectations.

 

February 2011

Hotel Management Division commenced under GN Asset Management and grows to 20 properties under asset management inside 24 months.

 

September 2014

Hotel Acquisitions commence through partnerships with Close Investors. 8 Hotels purchased over next number of years and both Hotel asset management division and Great National Hotel Marketing Division expands into United Kingdom.

 

June 2017

Margaret Chandler, one of the companies first employees with over 20 years’ experience is appointed General Manager over Great National Hotels Marketing services.

 

November 2017

Rachel Howes, technology investor and former MD of Booking.com and Leo Dempsey, Hotel entrepreneur and former booking.com regional leader become shareholders and join the Great National Board as Directors.

 

October 2018

Commencement of concept development of revenue management Software Division “Revanista” spearheaded by Rachel Howes and supported by Enterprise Ireland, has a transformation effect on company efficiency in this area.

 

November 2019

Purchase of Classic British Hotels marketing company in United Kingdom.

 

January 2022

Hotel Client numbers in marketing and management reach 140 and now over 700 colleagues employed in all group companies.

 

May 2022

Seasoned and Experienced Hotelier Dermot Kelly joins board as Group Commercial Director.

 

September 2022

Christopher Kenny appointed as Chief E-commerce Officer.

 

February 2023

Philip Allsop appointed as MD United Kingdom with responsibility for Classic British Hotels as board member having been promoted from Commercial Director position.

 

March 2023

Revanista software deployed to large hotel clients and now introduced to Irish and UK Market with economical model aimed at mass independent market.

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