Forty members of Bronte Country Tourism were welcomed by colleagues at the Marriott Hollins Hall Hotel and Country Club at Baildon, for lunch and guided tours of the new-look complex.

They were greeted by the hotel's general manager Stephen Fenwick and other management at Hollins Hall, which is undergoing a major £11.4 million redevelopment programme.

The project has more than doubled the number of guest rooms, expanded conference and leisure facilities, and added a four-gym complex and swimming pool.

An 18-hole golf course is due to open next spring.

Keighley-based Bronte Country Tourism manager Carolyn Spencer says: "The reception proved a very useful exercise as, in addition to learning about the hotel's development and its many new facilities."

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