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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.

Hotel marketing in 2015: What you need to know

It’s scary out there for hoteliers. Hotel owners have always had competition; from guest…

4 top tips for a sane kitchen environment

Hospitality has one of the highest staff turnover rates in the country at around 62%, which…

5 ways to be ‘Best of British’

Traditional British service standards have long been viewed as a framework for excellence in…

My first hotel opens in six months – how do I get bookings?!

Q: When the refurb is finished in just over six weeks, I’ll be launching my brand new first…

COMMENT: Underlining the importance of Wi-Fi in hotels

The rise in popularity of connected devices with consumers has been unstoppable in recent…

ADVICE: The importance of on-hold marketing

The world is in a bold digital age, where the process of researching, booking and even…

CONTRIBUTED: Counting the cost of fuel

Location can be everything for a hotel owner, with a rural setting helping to attract…

COMMENT: Top five hotel technology trends

1. Google to expand in the travel space Imagine a potential guest searches for a hotel’s…

COMMENT: What effect will the hotel boom have on Shoreditch?  

In the last two years Shoreditch has launched, or made plans to launch, a series of new…

ADVICE: Hoteliers can save money through energy efficiency

New research from the organisation Save Money, Cut Carbon has found that the hotel industry…