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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 appeal of boutique hotels

The concept of the typically small hotel embodying a luxury experience, often themed or…

How to prepare your hotel for the new year

Q: I cannot believe it is nearly the end of another year. I need to start planning for next…

Why productivity should come before more jobs

One of our industry’s most publicised aims is to create 300,000 new jobs by 2020. That’s…

Hoteliers going green

There was once a time when the weary traveller would simply ask for a room, and should there…

Serviced apartments: A different type of hospitality and a different target audience

It’s a good idea to start your marketing prior to launch if you can, or straightaway if you…

Are hotel awards worth it?

Q: We’ve been working really hard to build the reputation and profile of the business, and I…

Keeping up with in-room entertainment

A recent survey from hotel solutions provider HRS has found that the demand for innovative…

Can locals bolster your balance sheet?

Q: I’ve recently employed a new manager who says we need to target local people to increase…

How to overcome on-premise laundry challenges

When implemented effectively, an on-premise laundry (OPL) can deliver great benefits for…

The Project – Woburn Hotel

PROJECT BRIEF: Re-design and re-furnish rooms and interiors COST: £1m PROJECT MANAGER: Sue…