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Voco Grand Central Hotel shines a light on hotel history in a stunning light show celebrating the hotel s rebrand to voco and the reopening of Scottish hospitality
The show, running throughout the week, celebrates the reopening of Glasgow s most loved hotel on Monday April 26 following a multi-million refurbishment to become a voco branded hotel, part of IHG Hotels & Resorts, after more than a year of closure due to Covid-19.
The free light show illuminates the hotel s icon clocktower with spectacular archive imagery documenting the vibrant history of the hotel; from the building of the station in 1870s, through the golden age of travel as a British Transport Hotel when Hollywood stars including Gene Kelly, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra stayed as guests, right up to the present day and celebrating the future as a voco hotel.
Hotel chain under fire for fire and rehire practices in Glasgow ANGER is mounting within the hospitality sector over a hotel company s alleged fire and re-hire practices in Glasgow. IHG Hotels, who own The Grand Central and The Blythswood, have been accused of advertising jobs shortly after terminating the same contracts. A demonstration is being held outside the company s Glasgow hotels today amid claims the chain also dismissed all reasonable alternatives to compulsory redundancy . Jamie McCann, who is a former Receptionist at Grand Central Hotel, said: “Alongside almost 250 colleagues, I was terminated from my job as a receptionist at Voco Grand Central Hotel in September 2020, despite proposing multiple alternatives to avoid mass compulsory redundancy.