Mercure UK provides free newspapers to its guests

Mercure UK provides free newspapers to its guests

RELEASE DATE: Monday, 6^th August 2012

Mercure UK has teamed up with innovative global news, music and entertainment content provider, Headland Media, to provide its guests with fresh daily news from Headland Media’s Good Morning News service. The personalised news service is delivered daily by e-mail, providing a quick one-page summary news service covering the day’s main headlines and news summaries for Mercure UK’s guests.

Melissa Micallef Wei, Marketing Manager Mercure UK and Ireland said: “We are pleased to work with Good Morning News to deliver this important service for our UK and international guests.”

Headland Media’s Head of Hotels & Leisure, Roy Court, commented: “I am delighted to welcome aboard Mercure UK and look forward to building on this excellent relationship.”

Headland Media delivers two newspapers packages to hotels, depending on requirements. Good Morning News provides a single-page summary of news from home in the guests’ languages. It has an edition to cover news from 11 of the main guest countries and provides hotels with the ability to print as many copies as required for guests. HotelNewspapers is delivered in two, four or eight page formats and can include promotional content from the hotel.

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About Mercure

Mercure is mid-scale hotel of Accor group, the first hotel operator worldwide, with over 4,200 hotels and 145,000 employees in 90 countries.

For business or leisure, Mercure offers a real alternative to hotel chains or independent hotels. Mercure is the only midscale hotel brand that combines the strength of an international network of 700 hotels with guaranteed quality standards and the genuine experience of hotels that are all different, rooted in their community and managed by passionate hoteliers.

Located in city centers, by the seaside or in the mountains, the Mercure hotel network welcomes you in nearly 50 countries across the world.

For additional information, please visit http://www.mercure.com

Mercure contacts

PRESS CONTACT
Sarah Wilson - PR Manager I Accor UK & Ireland
E: sarah.wilson@accor.com
DL: 0208 237 7761
M: 07508 844664

About Headland Media

Headland Media provides entertainment, news and training to millions of guests, customers and employees every day. It has over 50 years' experience and 200 staff in Europe, the USA and Asia, dedicated to delivering flexible media services.

Headland Media is particularly well known in its specialist sectors: in hotels, Headland Media is the world’s largest provider of daily news publications, serving clients in 192 countries ; in maritime, the NewsLink and Walport brands have been the number one name in news, training and feature film content since the 1950s, and; in retail, in-store radio is broadcast live from the main UK Headland Media broadcast centre, delivering its news and music service to around 20 million shoppers in the UK every week.

More details can be found at www.headlandmedia.com/hotels

Headland Media contacts

Roy Court
Head of Hotels & Leisure
roy.court@headlandmedia.com
+44 151 243 1607

Sue Henney
Marketing Manager, Headland Media
sue.henney@headlandmedia.com
+44 151 236 4124