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THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR 2008
History of the Association
There has been a Harrogate District Hotels & Guesthouse Association since at least the late 50's andThe Association is mentioned in the 1968 Kelly's Directory with an office at 23 North Park Road.
Then as now the thrust of the Association was to provide high quality accommodation and to have a voice in the promotion of their businesses in Harrogate. The original association encompassed all the hotels in Harrogate both large and small, living in harmony for a number of years until the smaller members thought that big brother was perhaps getting a larger slice of the pie than they were.
In 1978 or as near as can be certain, a splinter group of smaller hoteliers (Some are still in business today) made the break from the big boys to forage for themselves in the big bad world of Bed and Breakfast. Thus the Harrogate District Hoteliers, Guesthouse and Restaurant Association was formed. This was lovingly termed the B Group and the Big hotels the A Group. The term A Group still remains today but having never seen ourselves as Second class citizens we dispensed of the B Group title.
In about 1996 the Association lost the few restaurant only members that it had and assumed its current title.
| CHAIR | COMMITTEE Kath Swainson, Sandra Doherty, Stephen Johnson Derek Vinter, Martin Foreacre EMAIL hotels@harrogate.com | |||
| VICE CHAIR | ||||
| SECRETARY | Colin Grant | |||
| TREASURER | Dave Giles |
History of the Association
There has been a Harrogate District Hotels & Guesthouse Association since at least the late 50's andThe Association is mentioned in the 1968 Kelly's Directory with an office at 23 North Park Road.
Then as now the thrust of the Association was to provide high quality accommodation and to have a voice in the promotion of their businesses in Harrogate. The original association encompassed all the hotels in Harrogate both large and small, living in harmony for a number of years until the smaller members thought that big brother was perhaps getting a larger slice of the pie than they were.
In 1978 or as near as can be certain, a splinter group of smaller hoteliers (Some are still in business today) made the break from the big boys to forage for themselves in the big bad world of Bed and Breakfast. Thus the Harrogate District Hoteliers, Guesthouse and Restaurant Association was formed. This was lovingly termed the B Group and the Big hotels the A Group. The term A Group still remains today but having never seen ourselves as Second class citizens we dispensed of the B Group title.
In about 1996 the Association lost the few restaurant only members that it had and assumed its current title.