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Accor expands Handwritten Collection brand to 50 hotels worldwide

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SevenStay launches mid-term aparthotel at 60 Old Hall Street

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The Columns section features regular opinion and commentary from experienced voices across the UK hospitality industry. Contributors include former hoteliers, marketing consultants, legal experts, business advisers, and operational specialists—each offering unique perspectives shaped by hands-on experience in the sector.

Covering topics such as staffing, branding, compliance, sustainability, crisis response, and guest satisfaction, these columns provide sharp analysis and practical viewpoints tailored for hotel owners, general managers, and decision-makers. Whether offering strategic advice or challenging conventional thinking, the section delivers thought leadership with direct relevance to the commercial and operational realities of running a hotel business.

Columns

The Columns section features regular opinion and commentary from experienced voices across the UK hospitality industry. Contributors include former hoteliers, marketing consultants, legal experts, business advisers, and operational specialists—each offering unique perspectives shaped by hands-on experience in the sector.

Covering topics such as staffing, branding, compliance, sustainability, crisis response, and guest satisfaction, these columns provide sharp analysis and practical viewpoints tailored for hotel owners, general managers, and decision-makers. Whether offering strategic advice or challenging conventional thinking, the section delivers thought leadership with direct relevance to the commercial and operational realities of running a hotel business.

Navigating the challenges of scale across a global portfolio

Julie White, Chief Commercial Officer at Accor for Europe and North Africa, leads with a…

How to maximise the potential of your F&B offering

Robin Chiang, Chief Growth Officer at OpenTable, has built a career on adaptability,…

Total Transformation: Creating the right blueprint for team success

Simon Drake, general manager of The Store in Oxford, is no stranger to ambitious hospitality…

HotelPlanner CEO: Boosting bookings and understanding guests with AI

Tim Hentschel’s career path is nothing short of transformative. From humble beginnings in…

The key to revenue success? Empowering your general manager

The role of a general manager is ever evolving, with the need to balance extensive and…

Equality in hospitality should still be a priority

When it comes to women in the hospitality industry, recent numbers show just 17% of…

How hotels are maximizing revenue amid a pandemic

As the travel industry rebounds from the Covid-19 pandemic, accommodation operators around…

Magnuson Hotels column: To market, to market

We have been trained in recent years to fear the word ‘artisan’. Hoisted over your favourite…

Standards not standardisation

We can trace brand standards and the standardisation of hotel rooms back to the 1950s upon…

Getting high on your own supply 

Recent conferences and events have shown us that people are desperate to return to 2019,…