The leading sales, operations, and distribution management platform HotelRunner introduces 'Insights' at WTM London, a cloud-native business intelligence (BI) platform, offering ready-to-use and fully customizable pixel-perfect dashboards, data warehouse models, and visualizations.
Despite rapid growth and a stronger than expected rebound in demand in 2022, recovery in the UK hotel market is set to stall in 2023 in the face of continued volatility of trading conditions and rising operational costs. But, as the PwC UK Hotels Forecast 2022-2023 reveals, there are diverging fortunes for hotels in London and those in the UK regions.
Cheval Collection has started work on a 70-unit development, the Cheval Maison - West Regent Glasgow.
Boutique luxury hotel brand The Signet Collection is delighted to appoint Paul Mason as Executive Chef at The Mitre in Hampton Court. The restaurants have pride of place at the boutique hotel, set on the River Thames, which plays host to two restaurants and bars, Coppernose and The 1665 Riverside Brasserie. Embarking on his new roles, Paul will drive culinary creativity to ensure that the food offerings are 'top notch and inviting'.
RIU Hotels & Resorts will open in the spring of 2023 its first hotel in the United Kingdom, the Riu Plaza London Victoria. The visitors to this year's World Travel Market (WTM) will be able to learn all the details of this new project, as well as more of RIU's new developments, at the company's stand UKI301.
Growing its UK footprint, The Hoxton will open in Edinburgh in summer 2023, coming as an exciting addition to Haymarket and the city's hospitality scene. The hotel's 211 rooms will be split on either side of the street, spread across 10 stitched-together townhouses, with beautiful Georgian features that Ennismore Design Studio have used as a backdrop to a design scheme that embraces block colours, subtle textures and locally sourced materials. In addition to the hotel's bedrooms, Edinburgh will feature three 'Hox Homes': three-bedroom self-contained apartments that offer guests full flexibility and long-stay accommodation — a popular demand in a city that sees huge waves of tourism with events such as Fringe. The hotel will also comprise a lobby, restaurant, and large event spaces and a gallery, that offer many exciting local opportunities for such a culturally-rich city.
ALTIDO, the fastest-growing property management company in Europe has today announced a new acquisition with Sherpa joining the ALTIDO brand. This is the latest in a series of significant expansions for the company in Scotland, which is on track to exceed the 2022 budget of £13.2m revenue.
Brand new five-star property, Sun Street Hotel officially opened its doors today. The hotel is the latest addition to multi-award-winning hotel brand, Bespoke Hotels. The boutique hotel is situated on the borderline of Shoreditch and the City of London and is only a five-minute walk from Liverpool Street and Moorgate stations.
Nicholas Northam has also joined Glion London where he will teach Global Real Estates Markets on the Master's in Real Estate, Finance and Development. During his wide and varied career spanning over 40 years within the hospitality business, Nicholas has been General Manager of a number of Marriott Hotels and was Operations Director for Marriott in the UK. He additionally spent over a decade in asset management, most recently as the Executive Vice President for Interstate Hotels and Resorts, Europe's largest third-party management company and the international arm of Aimbridge Hospitality.
Debra Adams, who has been a Consultant Lecturer at Glion since 2017, is now Program Director of the Master's in Real Estate, Finance and Development based at Glion's London campus. She has previously held positions at a number of hotel schools in the UK and Switzerland and is a specialist in hospitality finance training for finance professionals and operational heads of department in hotels, restaurants and leisure facilities. Debra is also a Trustee and Member of the National Supervisory Board at the Institute of Hospitality.
Leaders of major hotel brands speaking at the Annual Hotel Conference said that as the fundamentals of the hotel industry are normalizing, hotel owners and operators are applying lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to strategies to drive demand to their properties and gain market share for the brands.
The luxury country estate located in the Scottish Borders will then be the first Destination by Hyatt brand in Scotland.
B&B Hotels, a leading European value-for-money hotel chain, has announced plans to extend its operations into the United Kingdom, with the ambition of opening 100 new hotels by 2035. B&B Hotels made the announcement at the UK Annual Hotel Conference 2022, in Manchester.
Kew Green Hotels, one of the leading international hotel management companies, has been appointed as the hotel management partner for The Selwyn hotel in the heart of Richmond upon Thames. The Selwyn, a 50 bedroom boutique hotel dating back to Victorian times, has been lovingly restored and will open its doors in Autumn 2022.
In honour of World Tourism Day on 27 September and with a mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - including the parts that aren’t so far from home, we are recommending a handful of adventures right here in the UK. After all, why should overseas visitors be the only ones checking out what the UK has to offer?
Adventurous Journeys (AJ) Capital Partners announced today the acquisition of The Dornoch Hotel in Dornoch, Scotland. The property will join Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts, a collection of bespoke hotels located in the world’s most premier golf destinations. AJ Capital will reposition the property as Dornoch Station hotel, honoring the hotel’s original name dating back to 1902, the Station Hotel. The hotel is now closed and for the next several months it will undergo comprehensive renovations of all guest rooms, public spaces, exterior and grounds including the installation of a putting green, fire pits and additional outdoor amenities.
RBH Hospitality Management has been selected by leading European investment company, Covivio Hotels to manage three high-end UK hotels, following a competitive operator selection process. Marking its first continental European partnership, RBH will be taking on the management of The Principal York, Wotton House in Surrey and The Met Hotel Leeds from the 1st of October 2022. This adds a further 402 bedrooms and supports RBH's aim towards becoming the leading third-party management company in the luxury hotel market.
Ellenborough Park Hotel, Gloucestershire's only five-star country house hotel announces its 'next chapter' with bedroom transformations and Brasserie revamp. This magnificent 15th century English country estate and luxury spa is set in 90 acres of parkland just a short stroll away from the famous Cheltenham Racecourse on the edge of the Cotswolds.
Anthony Cox joins Norton Park Hotel, Spa & Manor House as the new General Manager.
In a presentation to the UK House of Lords last June, we raised the alarm that the UK independent hotelier share of market was declining rapidly, falling from 78% in 2010 to a projected 22% by 2026.