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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.

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Top sustainability practices revolutionising hotels today

As more environmentally-conscious consumers change their habits, sustainability has become a…

How can hotels maximise direct bookings?

The primary goal for any business striving for consistent revenue is to boost sales. To…

Low season, high income: maximising returns during quiet periods

The start of the year can be slow; the weather’s gloomy, customer funds are tight after…

How to gain planning permission for your hotel refurbishment

Hotel refurbishments play a pivotal role, not only in maintaining competitiveness but also…

The surprising history of Whitbread

The British hotel company, Whitbread, was first founded as a brewery in 1742 when Samuel…

Economic volatility spells rise in friendly fraud for hotels

For three years, the 2020 pandemic temporarily ended all travel plans, confining consumers…

Charting the future of the UK hospitality resurgence

Providing vital relief from the stresses of everyday life, the importance of the UK’s…

New short-term lets planning rules: a bridge between local communities and economic growth?

Last week, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) announced that…

How to effectively harness the power of social media

In today’s digital age, social media has become a hugely important tool for businesses…