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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.

What constitutes workplace bullying, harassment and discrimination?

For hotel owners, it is often difficult to know what constitutes bullying, harassment or…

Airbnb offers millennials control – to compete, hotels have to look for marginal gains in surprising places

The UK hotel industry remains buoyant and highly competitive, with 15,000 new rooms opening…

AN INSPECTOR CALLS – Deborah Heather on innovation and imagination

When you define the word innovation, most people instantly focus on things being new; new…

MARKETING MATTERS – Discounted FIT rates

It’s that time of year where my tour operator clients are finishing off their 2020 pricing…

Warning signs your business is getting into trouble

Most of the time, the way you run your business may not be the direct cause of this, as it…

Growing shares: how to make your hotel an Insta-hit

If you’ve dabbled in social media in a personal capacity, it’s likely you will have…

How hoteliers can use data to win the online battle for customers

Smart use of digital data is one of the key tools that digitally advanced brands use today…

Future proofing shallow talent pools 

Some 70% of business leaders believe the existing talent pool in the UK is shrinking (SIA…

Voice technology and improving the guest experience

Being able to meaningfully interact with technology might have one time been nothing more…

Checking in: Hotels need to support employee positive mental health

Hotels are places we come to get away from it all and relax. Places we can leave everything…