{"id":4349,"date":"2017-08-08T18:31:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2019-12-04T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:04:02","slug":"tony-matharu-founder-and-managing-director-of-grange-hotels-confirmed-keynote-speaker-at-the-bu-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2017\/08\/08\/tony-matharu-founder-and-managing-director-of-grange-hotels-confirmed-keynote-speaker-at-the-bu-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Matharu confirmed keynote speaker at the BU conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Tony Matharu, Founder and Chairman of Blue Orchid Hotels, confirmed keynote speaker at the <span class=\"s1\">BU Tourism and Hospitality Conference\u00a0Bournemouth University,\u00a04-6th September 2017 \u00a0Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/visitor-economy\">http:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/visitor-economy<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2017\/08\/tonyMatharu-e1502217082464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4350 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2017\/08\/tonyMatharu-e1502217082464.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2017\/08\/tonyMatharu-e1502217082464.jpg 429w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2017\/08\/tonyMatharu-e1502217082464-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Tony combines his passion for hospitality with philanthropy, sport and community engagement. He was awarded \u2018Hotelier of the Year\u2019 in 2013; received a \u2018Special Recognition Award\u2019 for his Contribution to London\u2019s Success and a Technology and Innovation Award in 2014. He founded a global hospitality consultancy which has created a number of innovative and award winning technology solutions, together with two award winning spa and guest amenity brands: Ajala Spa and Redwood &amp; Feller.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s1\">BU Tourism and Hospitality Conference\u00a0Bournemouth University,\u00a04-6th September 2017 \u00a0Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/visitor-economy\">http:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/visitor-economy<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s4\">Register on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thevisitorseconomy.eventbrite.com\/\"><span class=\"s5\">https:\/\/thevisitorseconomy.eventbrite.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Programme\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/visitor-economy-programme\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/visitor-economy-programme<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Matharu, Founder and Chairman of Blue Orchid Hotels, confirmed keynote speaker at the BU Tourism and Hospitality Conference\u00a0Bournemouth University,\u00a04-6th September 2017 \u00a0Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations\u00a0http:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/visitor-economy\u00a0 Tony combines his passion for hospitality with philanthropy, sport and community engagement. He was awarded \u2018Hotelier of the Year\u2019 in 2013; received a \u2018Special Recognition Award\u2019 for his&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2017\/08\/08\/tony-matharu-founder-and-managing-director-of-grange-hotels-confirmed-keynote-speaker-at-the-bu-conference\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Tony Matharu confirmed keynote speaker at the BU conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[491,24,489],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-orchid-hotels","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-tony-matharu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4917,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}