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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.

Obvlo’s CEO on how tech can enable personalised local experiences for guests

When the world shut down during the pandemic, hospitality ground to a halt. Hotels were…

The Grand’s Adam Dyke on ‘No Fuss Five Star’ luxury and the warmth of Yorkshire hospitality

The welcoming warmth of The Grand When Adam Dyke, General Manager of The Grand, York,…

Safestay’s record-breaking year: how the hostel industry is redefining modern travel

When Peter Zielke, COO of hostel group Safestay, looks back on the past 18 months, he sees…

Why offering free cancellation is vital for hotels

For a number of years now, hotels have offered free cancellation on bookings, a concept that…

What a difference a month makes: Dalata’s path to its €1.4bn takeover deal

In early June, Dalata Hotel Group made headlines for rebuffing a takeover approach from…

Hotel fire safety and signage: what’s often overlooked

Fire safety duties: what the law says Running a hotel in the UK means juggling a lot of…

Why customer experience is the growth engine hotels can’t ignore 

The hospitality sector faces fundamental transformation as rising guest expectations and…

Hotels under pressure: how brands can embrace emerging travel trends to manage rising costs in 2025

As we move through 2025, hotels around the world continue to grapple with escalating…

From fringe to freshers: how Edinburgh shapes the hospitality workforce

Edinburgh’s hospitality industry is unlike any other. It thrives year-round, adapting to…

Optimising hotel room configurations for flexibility and guest satisfaction

Crafting hotel rooms that appeal to couples, families, or business travellers while keeping…