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The Features section offers in-depth, editorially-led coverage of the key trends, challenges, and innovations shaping the UK hotel and hospitality sector. Designed for hoteliers, operators, and senior executives, these long-form articles provide strategic analysis, expert interviews, and practical insights across a wide range of commercial and operational themes.

Coverage includes deep dives into hotel design and refurbishment, sustainability initiatives, staff recruitment and retention, technological adoption, guest experience strategies, supply chain partnerships, and investment outlooks. With a focus on forward-looking thinking and lessons from across the sector, Features content is crafted to support better decision-making, spark new ideas, and offer context behind the headlines. Each piece is tailored to the real-world concerns of professionals running, managing, or investing in hotels.

Features

The Features section offers in-depth, editorially-led coverage of the key trends, challenges, and innovations shaping the UK hotel and hospitality sector. Designed for hoteliers, operators, and senior executives, these long-form articles provide strategic analysis, expert interviews, and practical insights across a wide range of commercial and operational themes.

Coverage includes deep dives into hotel design and refurbishment, sustainability initiatives, staff recruitment and retention, technological adoption, guest experience strategies, supply chain partnerships, and investment outlooks. With a focus on forward-looking thinking and lessons from across the sector, Features content is crafted to support better decision-making, spark new ideas, and offer context behind the headlines. Each piece is tailored to the real-world concerns of professionals running, managing, or investing in hotels.

How to stop bed bugs playing havoc in your hotel

A bed bug plague is hitting British cities as a result of this summer’s hot weather, experts…

New Year, new niche?

One of the things that often surprises owners and managers is that although our assessors…

Maintaining your hotel’s ‘public face’

Normally, I answer a subscriber question in my columns, but this month I’m deviating from…

Why Brexit isn’t as bad as it seems

Have you noticed how often good news is prefaced with the words “despite Brexit”? The…

What is the hospitality sector doing to deal with waste?

There has been a rising awareness in the amount of food that is wasted across the world, and…

Benefits of independent hoteliers partnering together

One could be forgiven for thinking that branded chains dominate the UK hotel industry. In…

Hotel Concept of the Month – Nitenite

The Nitenite hotel was first established some 10 years ago, with the redevelopment of an…

How much should hotels invest in technology?

A decision whether to invest in expensive technology is among the trickiest most hoteliers…

How to build your hotel brand

Q) I run a multi-site hospitality business with a mix of independent boutique hotels and…

How to be data compliant

A) We have a lot of regular bookers and a fairly good year-round occupancy rate, but my…