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27th March, 2024, London, United Kingdom

LUXlife magazine has announced Blue Orchid Group, Integrity International Group’s hospitality portfolio, as the winner of the Best Business Travel Arrangements Company in the LUXlife Travel & Tourism Awards, 2024.

For the eighth year in a row, the LUXlife Travel & Tourism Awards recognises the excellence of the sector’s best enterprises from across the globe. Blue Orchid Group has been recognised for the team who go above and beyond for their guests, providing them with memorable, positive experiences, now acknowledged by being awarded the Best Business Travel Arrangements Company.

Blue Orchid Group comprises a private collection of luxury independent hotels, apartments and residences carefully combined with state-of-the-art events, meetings, and conference venues together with vibrant restaurants and bars; all located in the heart of London. Each property, from boutique town houses to luxury 5-star all-suite hotels and residences, skilfully combines a wealth of history and local tradition with contemporary luxury, offering independent living, together with discreet, professional and attentive service.

Tony Matharu, Chairman of Integrity International Group and Blue Orchid Group commented on the prestigious award: “This award is particularly important as it reinforces the efforts we make to understand, recognise and exceed the expectations of our valued clients and guests. Their loyalty to the Blue Orchid brand and patronage reflects our past success and gives us confidence into the future. We take individual and collective pride in the recognition of our efforts as the hotel group for Best Business Travel Arrangements, 2024. We look forward to continuing to make a positive difference to central London and its world-class offering to international and domestic visitors, workers, delegates and residential communities alike.”

A true Londoner, founder and Chairman of Integrity International Group, Tony Matharu has delivered over 2,500 hotel rooms and 1,750 jobs throughout London. Awarded Hotelier of the Year, with an honorary doctorate for his contributions to the London hospitality sector, a Fellow of ESCP Europe Business School, Freeman of the Company of Entrepreneurs, and having been recognised and awarded for his ‘Contribution to London’s Success’ and for his ‘Technology and Innovation’, Tony recently expanded London’s latest independent hotel chain: Blue Orchid Hospitality under Integrity International Group. Learn more about Tony here.

Awards Coordinator Jessie Wilson commented, “It has been a pleasure to host this year’s Travel & Tourism Awards, and I am delighted to congratulate our winners on their success. I wish them all the best and look forward to seeing them flourish throughout the rest of 2024 and beyond!”

Recognising the burgeoning trend for independent living and personal space, Blue Orchid Group’s award-winning portfolio of hotels, apartments and residences are perfect for any length of stay or purpose whether for business or leisure, with luxury spas, choices of restaurants and bars, workspaces, lounges, state-of-the-art meeting and events centres, private gardens and the spectacular The Skyline London roof terrace.

Integrity International Group’s growing portfolio of businesses, provide a broad range of services in the hospitality, property, technology, arts, culture and sports sectors together with direct assistance to charities and non-government organisations in the third sector. Many of the group’s initiatives are aligned with the ambition to maintain London as the best place in which to live, work, visit, invest and study.

Release date: Thursday 08th Feb 2024

Integrity International Group, owned by award-winning hotelier Tony Matharu, founder of the recently restructured Grange Hotels group, has acquired Atlas House, an iconic London landmark in the heart of the capital, together with the Crescent buildings, Tower Hill, for his Blue Orchid Hospitality brand.

Atlas House is an elegant Grade II listed building situated at the core of the historic City of London, between the Guildhall, St Paul’s Cathedral and the Bank of England – on the junction of King Street, Queen Street, and Cheapside.

The Crescent, a stunning collection of Georgian buildings, adjoins Blue Orchid’s multi award-winning Tower Suites hotel and benefits from views of the Tower of London and the historic Roman Wall, in a prime City location.

Tony Matharu, Founder and Chairman of Integrity International Group and Executive Chairman of Blue Orchid Hospitality, commented: “The recent acquisition of Atlas House and the Crescent portfolio demonstrates our continued commitment to invest in and breathe new life into London property, particularly those buildings at the end of their previous lives, ensuring that London remains the best place to live, work, visit, and invest.

“The team at Integrity International Group has unrivalled expertise in acquiring, developing and operating first-class hospitality facilities. We look forward to continuing to make a positive difference to central London and its world-class offering to international and domestic visitors, workers, and residential communities alike.”

The acquisition of Atlas House and Crescent add to the group’s impressive portfolio of luxury multi award-winning independent hotels, apartments, suites, residences, and venues. These include the Westminster-based Wellington and Rochester hotels; Tower Suites – winner of the 2023 and 2024 Travellers’ Choice® Award for exceptional guest experience; Tower Residences – a wonderful new addition to the City’s accommodation offering; and 55 Broadway, the iconic Grade I listed building identified as London’s first skyscraper, set to be repurposed into a 526-room leading hotel in St James’s Park.

Integrity International Group was established by Tony Matharu, the founder of Grange Hotels, which he ran as the Group Managing Director, until its key London sites were sold to Jurys Inn (now Leanardo Hotels) in 2019. A true Londoner, Tony Matharu has delivered over 2,500 hotel rooms and 1,750 jobs throughout London, and with the expansion of the Blue Orchid collection continues to create local employment opportunities.

Integrity International Group recognises that the most sustainable way to create new value in London is to reinvest in existing buildings, particularly heritage sites built for a different demographic. The purchase of Atlas House and Crescent provides exciting opportunities to transform landmark properties into world-leading hotels, whilst retaining, restoring and enhancing spectacular historic London sites.

Notes to Editors

Integrity International Group was founded by Tony Matharu, a former Hotelier of the Year and passionate advocate for London, with a distinguished track record of investment in London’s real estate and successfully building hospitality businesses in the capital. Full profile available on request.

Blue Orchid Hospitality is a private collection of luxury award-winning independent hotels, apartments, suites, residences, and venues in central London. These incorporate state-of-the-art facilities together with restaurants, bars, gyms, spas and luxury guest bedrooms, suites, apartments and residences.

Release date: Thursday 20th July 2023

Bedroom of a Residence at Tower Residences

Blue Orchid Hospitality announced the launch of its latest addition to London’s luxury accommodation offering with Tower Residences in the City of London.

Carefully designed for short or long stays and providing the very best contemporary living, guests will enjoy the independence of a private home combined with all the facilities and services the most discerning visitors expect of a 5-star hotel.

Tower Residences is a sympathetically restored elegant late Victorian building located a gemstone’s throw away from the Tower of London in the heart of the City’s Tower Quarter.

Residents can look forward to enjoying luxury independent living in sumptuous one and two bedroom residences for up to four people, each incorporating a fully equipped kitchen, elegant and flexible open-plan dining, lounge with a workstation and modern, stylish bathrooms – each with exceptional views over the City, the River Thames or Tower Bridge. Guests at Tower Residences have access to all the amenities and services of a 5-star hotel, with 24-hr concierge and reception services, a private butler on request and access to Blue Orchid’s local restaurants, bars, gym, spa, co-working, meetings and events facilities.

Transport links are ideal with Tower Hill, Tower Gateway and Fenchurch Street stations just moments from Tower Residences’ doorstep.

Tony Matharu, founder and Executive Chairman of Blue Orchid Hospitality, part of the Integrity International Group, commented: “The opening of Tower Residences is a continuation of our ambition to invest in and breathe new life into London’s properties, particularly those at the end of their lives in a previous form - ensuring that London remains the best place in which to live, work, visit and invest. The team at Blue Orchid has unrivalled expertise in acquiring, developing and operating first class hospitality services and looks forward to continuing to make positive differences to central London and its world-class offering to the visitors, workers and residential communities which we support. Tower Residence is one more progressive step following our success with the multi-award winning 273 all-suites property, Tower Suites, where guests can enjoy facilities and services now ranked by visitors as some of the very best in the world.”

Recognising the burgeoning trend for independent living and personal space, Tower Suites and Tower Residences are perfect for any length of stay, whether for business, leisure or events in the heart of the City.

For further information, please contact

Nadia Perrier, nadia.perrier@integrityinternationalgroup.com

Integrity International Group was founded by Tony Matharu, a former hotelier of the year and advocate for London, with a long and distinguished track record of investment in London real estate and successfully building hospitality businesses in the capital.

His full profile is available on request.

Blue Orchid Hospitality and Blue Orchid Hotels

Blue Orchid Hospitality is a private collection of luxury independent hotels, apartments, suites, residences and venues incorporating state-of-the-art meetings, conference and event facilities together with bars, gyms and spas, located in central London.

Featuring some of the best located properties in the capital, Blue Orchid Hospitality skilfully blends a wealth of history and local tradition with contemporary luxury.

London, United Kingdom – June, 2023 – Tripadvisor has announced that Tower Suites by Blue Orchid Hospitality has been recognized as a 2023 Travellers’ Choice award winner for the Travelers’ Choice Award. The coveted award celebrates businesses that have consistently received great traveler reviews on Tripadvisor over the last 12 months, placing these winners among the 10% of all listings on Tripadvisor globally.

Tony Matharu, Chairman of Blue Orchid Hospitality commented: “Our associates and our team take individual and collective pride in the recognition of our efforts as a world’s best hotel 2023 based on outstanding positive experiences. At Blue Orchid Hospitality we aim to demonstrate integrity, respect and courtesy to our valued guests and in all our relationships; treating our guests, associates, partners and the wider community with the warmth and friendliness of an extended family. Recognition by our visitors is the most prestigious reward we could wish for.”

Despite the continuous challenges faced over the past year, Tower Suites by Blue Orchid Hospitality consistently delivered outstanding and positive experiences to its guests.

“Congratulations to the 2023 Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice winner,” said John Boris, Chief Growth Officer at Tripadvisor. “The travel resurgence we’ve seen throughout the past year has even further heightened the competition. Earning a Travellers’ Choice Award demonstrates that you have provided great experiences to those who matter most: your guests. With changing expectations, continued labour shortages, and rising costs, this is no easy feat, and I am continually impressed with the hospitality industry’s resilience and ability to adapt. Cheers to another successful year!”

Guests at the Tower Suites hotel can enjoy facilities and services now ranked as some of the very best in the world, from the 273 elegant suites - each offering independent living with fully equipped kitchens and lounges together with luxurious bathrooms and sumptuous bedrooms, whilst having access to the myriad facilities and services of a luxury 5-star hotel - all in a spectacular central London location. Recognising the burgeoning trend for independent living and personal space, Tower Suites is perfect for any length of stay or purpose whether for business or leisure, with its luxury spa, choice of restaurants and bars, workspaces, lounges, state-of-the-art meeting and events centre, and the spectacular The Skyline London roof top venue.

To experience Tower Suites visit: https://www.blueorchid.com/en/hotels/gb/london/london-tower-suites

Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel guidance platform*, helps hundreds of millions of people each month** become better travelers, from planning to booking to taking a trip. With more than 1 billion reviews and opinions of nearly 8 million businesses, travelers turn to Tripadvisor.

* Source: SimilarWeb, unique users de-duplicated monthly, March 2023
** Source: Tripadvisor internal log files

Release date: Thursday 16th Feb 2023

Tony Matharu Shortlisted for Prestigious Personality 

of the Year Award

Founder and Chairman of Integrity International Group and Blue Orchid Group has today been announced as one of the final five candidates for the Personality of the Year award.

Arguably the most prestigious category, City A.M. will recognise the elite of the Square Mile, Canary Wharf and London’s business community – which has shown resilience, innovation and adaptability like never before over the past year.

Editor, Andy Silvester commented: “After months of uncertainty, it’s time to look forward – and say well done to those who came to the fore in the most difficult of circumstances. Now in its 12th year, the City A.M. Awards recognise and celebrate the individuals and companies considered to be making outstanding contributions to corporate success, economic growth, prosperity or innovation. The City remains a global financial leader – and it does so on the back of its people.”

A former Hotelier of the Year and winner of Best Small Hotel Company, Tony Matharu is one of London’s leading hoteliers, and a passionate advocate for London and its hospitality sector.

Having created the city’s leading hotel group, which he sold in 2019 due to a restructuring of the business, permitting minority shareholders to retire, Tony has continued to invest in London and its talent and communities. Tony’s latest hotel group, Blue Orchid, developed the award winning Tower Suites hotel together with two hotels in Westminster and is due to embark on a spectacular repurposing of the iconic 55 Broadway building into a 526-room luxury hotel; once again breathing new life into buildings at the end of their previous purpose.

Away from his investments in real estate, Tony founded Here to Help London to assist London’s key workers and those most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing over 5,000 room nights and 30,000 meals to those most in need and finance to increase the production of PPE together with the Central London Alliance (Community Interest Company) to stimulate a post COVID-19 recovery and help central London’s businesses, workers and visitors and investors.

Central London Alliance's national London Love Affair campaign achieved over 163 million impressions across the UK in its first year, restoring confidence and stimulating visits to central London, generating over £10 million in spend to London, creating approx. 400 jobs.

Tony commented: “I am humbled to have been nominated as a significant person who has positively contributed to the recovery of central London in recent unprecedented times. London has previously demonstrated its resilience and its ability to overcome challenges. Recent years have disproportionately impacted London and its position as the best place in which to live, work, visit and invest. Above all London’s greatest strength is its people and the vision, innovation, creative spirit and determination so I am particularly proud to have led the Central London Alliance and its partners and members in harnessing the people and organisations, and their skills, in driving London’s recovery and future.”

Tony is a board member of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chairman of the Asian Business Association, Director of the Central District Alliance (Business Improvement District), Patron of the London Indian Film Festival, Patron and Vice President of the London based Oracle Cancer Trust, Vice President of the Global Sustainability Film Awards, Chairman of the Sustainable Supply Chain Management Tech Team of the Energy & Environment Alliance and is a Freeman of the Company of Entrepreneurs.

Awarded an Honorary Doctorate for his contribution to London’s hospitality sector and a Fellow of ESCP Europe Business School, Tony combines his love for London with his passion for philanthropy, community engagement and sport – competing at national and representative level in hockey and cricket.

A true Londoner: born, living, working and investing in London, Tony credits the capital for his achievements and successes and continues to give back to the city he is passionate about.

Previous winners of Personality of the Year include: Anne Boden (2022), Lord Simon Wolfson (2019), Alison Brittain (2018), Martin Gilbert (2017) and Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London (2016). This year’s winner will be announced at the awards ceremony held at The Guildhall Art Gallery on 2nd March, 2023.