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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.

The Automated Hotel: A new approach to guest expectations and staff shortages

How was the summer tourist season for your hotel? Did you cope with running a hands-on…

How the ongoing battle with staff shortages could transform the sector 

Desperate to make up for months of lost trading, Freedom Day was seen as hospitality’s road…

Opening during adversity

Billy Hughes is the UK Area Manager at The Ascott Limited (Ascott). He oversees Ascott’s UK…

Foraging for beginners – and chefs of luxury hotels!

When we think about foraging food, more often than not, it conjures up images of searching…

A digital remedy for ‘dark operations’ in the contract catering industry

The contract catering industry is under scrutiny like never before. While historically…

Preserving and refurbishing a 125-year old hotel

Billesley Manor Hotel and Spa has been reinventing itself since 705 AD. Having changed hands…

Why Wyboston Lakes Resort ‘isn’t going anywhere’

“You have to tell the truth,” that is what Steve Jones, managing director at Wyboston Lakes…

Five ways to reimagine the guest experience

Fluctuating Government guidelines have reshaped hospitality over the past 12 to 18 months,…

Bringing brand to the forefront of digital guest experience

According to Mintel, the tourism industry can expect the shake-up of travel behaviours,…

Rethink the returning guest experience with digital assistants

The Covid-19 pandemic slowed the hospitality and tourism industries, but voice assistants,…