Hospitality recruiter Towngate Personnel has won a contract to supply staff to Millennium and Copthorne hotels in the UK.

Towngate Personnel operations manager James Tucker says: “This is a multi-national company with more than 100 four- and five-star hotels worldwide and they are looking to recruit some 400 positions in the UK alone over the next 12 months.

“Certainly in the hotel sector our clients are finding the conference and training business is coming back and we’ve been asked to fill double the number of positions than this time last year. I think where businesses struggled in 2009 and took stock in 2010, they are starting to bounce back as we go into the new year.”