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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.

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Advice: Choosing the right hotel lighting

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Is hospitality relying too much on the young?

The hospitality sector employs a much younger workforce than the average: 33% of employees…

Front of House: The Grove

Neil Kedward admits that he and his partner Zoe got into the hotel trade “by mistake”.…

How to make the most of your hotel bar

A weekend away from home is a time to relax and a quick drink in the hotel bar is a way for…

Top tips for hotel security

The majority of hotels take a ‘belt and braces’ approach when it comes to safety and…

Profile: The first and only female GM in Saudi Arabia

When asked how she ended up becoming the first and only female GM in Saudi Arabia, Hessa Al…

Want a nap? There’s an app for that

When discussing technology with hoteliers it is easy to fall into the trap of asking what…

Should you be using an OTA?

Q:I keep getting mixed messages about online bookings; should I offer them on my website,…

The importance of good housekeeping

The independent hotel is famed for its luxury offering and quality products, but what the…