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FRIDAY APPRENTICESHIPS

THE UK’S BIGGEST HOTEL
BRAND OFFERS HIGH-QUALITY
APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMMES
AND AIMS TO CREATE 2000
APPRENTICESHIPS BY 2018
Award-winning company Premier Inn
is the UK’s biggest hotel brand, and
we are consistently rated the UK’s Best
Value Hotel Chain by YouGov. With
over 690 hotels in the UK and 55,000
rooms in great locations, we’ve set
an ambition to have 75,000 rooms by
2018. We also operate internationally
in the Middle East and India, and we
have developments in the pipeline and
a target for 50 international hotels by
2018. We pride ourselves on comfort
and quality, so whether our guests are
staying for business or leisure they’ll
always enjoy a warm welcome and
great service from our friendly teams.
In fact, we’re the only hotel chain in
the UK to offer a ‘Good Night
Guarantee’. It’s essential for us that
our guests enjoy a great night’s sleep
every time, and we offer a 100%
money-back guarantee if they’re not
happy with their stay.
Our 17,000 Premier Inn team
member employees and their
development are very important to us.
As part of Whitbread Hotels &
Restaurants, Premier Inn and its
restaurant partners, Beefeater, Brewers
Fayre, Table Table and Taybarns,
created the WISE programme in 2012
– Whitbread Investing in Skills and
Employment. The aim was to increase
career opportunities in the hospitality
sector, especially for young people, and
we have since invested £3m creating
award-winning programmes for work
experience placements,

apprenticeships, new job creation
and training.

We are proud to offer high-quality
apprenticeship programmes and aim
to create 2,000 apprenticeships by
2018. We also have a partnership with
Believe in Young People to support
the development of students while
still in education, and offer structured
work experience placements, giving
students real hands-on experience and
the skills they will need to work in a
customer facing environment.
Whitbread continues to be ranked in
the top 10 Sunday Times Best
Companies to Work For in the UK.

WHITBREAD CONTINUES
TO BE RANKED IN THE
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