Travelodge to hire 875 additional Christmas staff

Travelodge, one of the UK’s largest independent hotel chains which operate over 550 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain is looking to fill 875 positions in the countdown to Christmas.

The company is looking to fill 850 positions based in Travelodge hotels across the country for the following roles: Receptionist, Team Member, Guest Room Cleaner and Bar Café Team Member. There are also 55 roles available for Hotel Manager and Assistant Hotel Manager roles too.

For its forthcoming six new hotel openings which are all scheduled to open from now till Christmas in: Newcastle, Bath, Inverness, Redhill, Melksham and London Harrow, Travelodge is recruiting for 120 new roles.

At Travelodge head office, 21 positions are available in the following departments: finance, Human Resources and IT. In addition, Travelodge is also recruiting for four maintenance engineers across the UK supporting our ongoing regional hotel maintenance programme.

Craig Bonnar, Travelodge COO, said: “At Travelodge a job is for life and not just for Christmas, We are currently recruiting for 875 permanent positions throughout the UK which includes positions in six of our forthcoming new hotels.  Joining a hotel company opens the door to training, career progression and even roles in new countries.  If you have passion, determination and a real desire to look after people then we will help you learn the rest.

“At Travelodge, we are committed in developing our people. We have a successful in-house management development programme in place that has helped hundreds of colleagues climb the career ladder into management via an entry level position. The world certainly is your oyster in the hospitality industry.”

To date over 500 Travelodge employees have graduated into a management position by undertaking the in-house development programme called Aspire.

Travelodge welcomes nearly 19 million customers every year and currently has 10,000 staff currently working across the business.