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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 boutique hotels will reinvent themselves in 2026

By Anthony Hunt, partner and co-head of corporate real estate at Howard Kennedy

The hospitality sector cannot afford to overlook AI

The hospitality industry has long been considered cautious when it comes to adopting new…

How all-inclusive holidays are becoming premium and personalised

All-inclusive hospitality has long been one of the most commercially resilient models in our…

CityHub and the business case for adaptive reuse hotels

For years, urban travellers faced a familiar dilemma. On one end of the spectrum sat…

The new weekend model: Why apartment-style stays are becoming the default for short city visits

Weekend travel has taken on a more relaxed pace in recent years. Anyone who moves through…

How the aparthotel model is reshaping urban hospitality

Urban hospitality is experiencing a steady realignment as guest behaviour evolves.…

Corporate travel is a generation game

The business traveller checking into your property today looks very different from the one…

The key tech trends expected to refine the guest journey in 2026

As we look toward 2026, the hospitality landscape is shifting from a period of digital…

BWH Hotels shows premium ambition with upscale boutique growth

Q: We’ve seen a number of exciting hotels joining the Best Western Signature Collection this…

The rise of mobile-first security protocols in UK hotels

Mobile-first experiences have quickly become an expectation of the hospitality sector.…