In a move that must rate up there with the appointment of Tony Blair as Middle East Envoy, the Hotel Marketing Association has unveiled its annual lecture will be delivered by none other than Michael Prager.
If you can't quite place Mr Prager, it could be because his company, The Real Hotel Group, collapsed into adminstration in January after a protracted demise played out in public over a number of years.
In fact, Kitchen Rat is not sure if "Credit crunch, black hole or Super Nova?" is the title of the lecture, or a comment on Real's balance sheet at the time the administrators were handed the keys.
The irony of the situation had not been lost on The Times either, which elicited the following response from the former chief executive who is reported to be trying to buy back 11 Purple Hotels from the adminstrators for its diary section:
"I made a commitment to the HMA ages ago. Life goes on." Quite. And best of luck to you to Mr Blair.
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