The recently re-branded The QHotels Collection have announced the formation of a new Spa Academy which will see the creation of new positions across the group and training and qualifications for existing Spa, Beauty & Wellbeing practitioners.
Recently, the PrettyLittleThing Hotel, officially opened its doors to guests. Decked out with PrettyLittleThing homeware, accessories and treats for guests, the decor of the hotel gives you a taste of the lifestyle of the rich and famous.
After the most volatile trading period since benchmarking began, the PwC Hotels Forecast 2021-2022 reveals the green shoots of recovery as demand returns. Though performance is not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels by Q4 2022, there are finally encouraging signs for hoteliers.
Launching in Stratford in November 2021 The Gantry will bring together under one roof a design hotel, artisan food market, restaurants, bars and events, in what is London's fastest developing creative and cultural community.
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) today celebrates the opening of Canopy by Hilton London City, the UK's first Canopy by Hilton hotel. Set within the multi-million-pound Minories development close to Aldgate station, the eco-conscious 340-room hotel provides the perfect base for design-conscious travellers looking to immerse themselves in London's lively East End.
Marriott will debut its Westin brand in the UK capital next month, with the opening of the Westin London City.
Trading at UK hotels is not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022 despite encouraging signs for hoteliers.
Moxy Manchester City, a Marriott concept, from KE Hotels, will bring more style and socialising to Manchester's Spinningfields as it opens a brand new 146-modern bedroom hotel, with a cool living room lobby and hip bar this November. A boutique hotel at heart, Moxy Manchester City is the life and soul of the party, ensuring guests have a good time from the minute they arrive.
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) says the UK’s Travel & Tourism sector’s year on year recovery may only claw back a third, whilst international travel spending continues to plummet.
room2, the hometel brand, announces that it will open the world’s first whole life net zero carbon hotel in Chiswick, West London, in December. Expected to be 89% more energy efficient than the typical UK hotel per sqm, room2 Chiswick has been built with pioneering technologies to achieve net zero throughout both the design and construction stages and throughout its whole life, which, in a hotel industry first, includes both embodied and operational emissions.
The 2021 Travolution European Summit brought together senior speakers from leading brands within and outside of travel and more than 400 senior industry delegates to discuss how technology can underpin efforts to Build Back Better.
When booking a hotel room, guests are considering more factors than ever in deciding which property to call home in their destination. One of the many considerations is price, and by extension hotel class, which leads us to this latest analysis of occupancy on the books in London. Examining future occupancy levels by class allows for a better understanding of the traveler booking rationale for the upcoming months.
Samuel Ballard has been appointed Residence Manager of Citadines Islington London, part of The Ascott Limited (Ascott) and the newest addition to the Citadines Apart'hotel portfolio in London. Samuel will oversee the 108-apartment serviced residence located in London's exciting new Islington Square neighbourhood.
This month, RBH Hospitality Management has launched a new brand of hotel, starting with the opening of Pocotel Glasgow City Centre on Tuesday 5 October.
A lively Q&A session, moderated by HVS chairman Russell Kett, addressed factors likely to hamper recovery progress. ‘The challenge around financial forecasting particularly if you have London hotels, as well as the pace of the change – when will it come back and how will it come back,’ was a key issue for Arron Taggart of Cheyne Capital, with travel restrictions, lack of airlift and scarcity of MICE business highlighted by Jan-Willem Terlouw of Westmont Group.
Highgate, a leading real estate investment and hospitality management company, has announced two new additions in the UK market – the acquisition of Dorsett City London Hotel and the management of Grosvenor House Suites in London's Mayfair District. The additions mark Highgate's return to the UK and European markets and the company's confidence for tourism and business travel to return.
City ID, the fast-growing Dutch apartment hotel group, with shareholders APG and Australia's Aware Super, has acquired a prime development site in Central London's Victoria district to build a new location for their brand in the heart of London. The move forms are part of a wider acquisition strategy which will see City ID invest more than € 1 billion over the next five years to increase its apartment hotel portfolio in London and across other major European cities.
With relaxation of full lockdown measures now finally in sight, the hospitality industry is waking up to a new set of opportunities and challenges. What underlying concerns do we foresee need to be addressed going forward for the extended stay market and the corporate housing model?
Today, the Business Travel Association (BTA) has revealed that the UK lost £4.76 billion in GDP in the fourth week of September, due to the decline of business travel trips following Covid-19*.
Pioneering lifestyle aparthotel brand Locke has today announced the opening of its ninth property, Turing Locke, located in the heart of Cambridge's sustainable new development, Eddington. The launch marks the continued international growth of Locke, which has opened four locations in London, Dublin and Munich so far this year.