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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.

Are lifestyle hotels worth the hype?

UK tourism is thriving. In the last two years alone, the industry has grown by almost 15%,…

Is the current food operator grading scheme fit for purpose?

Every year when the list of Michelin Stars is published, the scheme comes under criticism…

Will voice search change how hotels find customers?

This is a statistic I see reported quite a lot, but as with many things it has morphed with…

How a short, vague ‘environmental policy’ won’t impress Millennial customers

Are the promises and pledges in your hotel’s environmental policy as SMART – specific,…

Three top tips for successful hotel training programs

Today, many industries spend billions of dollars on training and development (T&D) to…

Operating models – what’s the best way to run a hotel?

At a hotel session panel on 19 September 2019 hosted by Howard Kennedy, one of the major…

Technology is killing the hotel industry: It’s time you saved it.

People stay in hotels for any number of reasons. They may be on a business trip, on holiday,…

The Good Work Plan and what it means for hoteliers

The world we live in is changing and as it does the law needs to keep up, and in some…

The power of package bookings for hotels

Hotels are always looking for new ways to drive demand – and packages have been a solid…

A sustainable future

The rapid rise of sustainability on the business agenda is remarkable. In just a few years…