Premier Inn’s expansion plan of operating in an increasing number of popular leisure and seaside locations looks set to really pay off this year with the expected staycation boom. Five hotels, a mixture of freehold and leasehold developments, will soon…
This summer’s Hospitality Action fundraising campaign has been announced – a 30,000 miles plus challenge. Named To Hell and Back, that distance would take us to four actual hells on earth: towns called Hell in California, Michigan and Norway; and…
The Short Term Accommodation Association – whose members include Airbnb, Altido, City Relay in London and holiday cottage specialists – has welcomed news that COVID relaxations are set to allow one family to stay at a holiday let from 12…
The chair of a leading National Park charity claims income generated from visitors in the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park is hurtling towards a massive drop of at least £500 million in the coming months, with thousands of…
UKHospitality Chief Executive Kate Nicholls has said the survival of many jobs and businesses in the sector now relies on Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget announcements on 3 March. Kate Nicholls, UKHospitality Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement of the proposed…
Heathrow area hotels began admitting travellers facing quarantine for 11 nights after arriving from 33 countries on the UK’s ‘hot spot’ COVID-19 list from Monday just gone (February 15). The hotels include Radisson Blu, Heathrow Renaissance Hotel, the Ibis Styles…
The CEOs of over 160 leading UK hospitality businesses have written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of his Budget on 3 March. Their letter, co-ordinated by trade body UKHospitality, calls on the Government to extend the VAT cut and rates…
The Isle of Wight’s new 100-bedroom Premier Inn hotel on Sandown Esplanade is set to open on Friday, 26 February. At this stage the team there will only be welcoming guests allowed to stay under government regulations, such as for…
Hotels close to UK airports, the Eurostar terminal and ports are set to become part of a government quarantine plan from 15 February to the end of March to limit the spread of coronavirus variants. All those arriving from identified…
While most of us are just peering into the still murky crystal ball for 2021, some people are looking ahead as far as 2035 and what our guest room users then will expect to find. At architects ReardonSmith they believe…