17th September 2019: Ireland’s Blue Book is delighted to announce that 6 members received awards at the Georgina Campbell Irish Food and Hospitality Awards 2020 which took place in Dublin on September 15th, 2019. Included in the wins were awards of Hotel of the Year for Marlfield House and Host of the Year for Mary Sweeney of Castle Grove Country House.
Other Blue Book winners at the Georgina Campbell Irish Food and Hospitality Awards 2020 included:
Several Blue Book Houses were also Highly Commended, including:
Representatives of the very best in Irish hospitality gathered at the Intercontinental hotel in Dublin for the announcement of the 2020 Georgina Campbell Awards. The Awards are an annual celebration of excellence associated with the trusted Georgina Campbell’s Ireland independent hospitality guides and are Ireland’s longest-running independent food and hospitality awards. They are highly respected by the industry.
Celebrating 21 years in their current incarnation, the awards recognise and honour Ireland’s standard-bearers in food and hospitality in Ireland with particular emphasis, this year, on the industry pioneers who put down quality markers a generation or more ago.
Speaking about this year’s awards focus, Georgina Campbell said; “Many of these great people are still active and working alongside their children and often their grandchildren, and they are the pioneers of the genuine hospitality, sustainable food sourcing and innovation that Ireland is gaining a reputation for today”.
The Awards were held in association with AIB for the first time and David McCarthy, Head of Hospitality & Tourism at AIB said: “Our message to hospitality businesses in a time of uncertainty with increased competitiveness, mounting cost pressures and slower revenue growth, is that it is now more important than ever for SMEs to focus on sustainability from a social, environmental and economic perspective.”
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For more information on the awards, please see www.ireland-guide.com
